Bryan Vine

Automation scripts, server admin tips and tricks, How-To's, and various tech goodness.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Powershell Script - Set-UserPassword - Remotely sets local account passwords

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Here's a great script to change passwords in bulk on many servers. I've added verbose and error output for logging purposes as well...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Powershell Quick Script - Get emailed when a specific account is locked

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Here's something quick and simple which sends you an email when an AD user account is locked out. The script just runs in a loop, pollin...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Powershell Script - Push-Patch - remote installation for KB hotfix, MSI, MSU, or EXE files

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Here's a wickedly useful function I threw together based on a strong need to push emergency patches to thousands of servers without the ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Powershell Script - Get-LocalUsers - Remotely query all local users and details

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Here's a lovely script that runs with parallel pipeline queries using the [ADSI] .NET class  to remotely query SAM  to build nice object...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Powershell Script - Get-ServerHDDinfo - Remotely pull hdd size info quickly

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I wrote two versions of this function for different scenarios.  The first version is much faster but requires PS remoting enabled on all tar...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Beginner's Guide - Working with lists (part 4)

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In this final installment of my 4 part series on working with lists, we'll cover advanced Select-Object statements, utilizing the power ...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

My son was born!

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Apologizes for not posting any new content, I've been busy with my second child.  I'll post part 4 of my beginners series on lists w...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Beginner's Guide - Working with lists (part 3)

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This is the third installment of my beginner's guide to working with lists.   Part 1 covered simple string arrays and Part 2 dived int...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Beginner's Guide - Working with lists (part 2)

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In part 1 of this series, we covered string arrays and briefly touched on hash tables.  In this tutorial we'll cover how to use and def...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Quick Script - Find which servers are connecting to your 2003 boxes

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With Windows server 2008, we got the lovely Resmon.exe tool which lets you easily see TCP/IP connections, complete with reverse name lookup....
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