Query servers for multiple processes running under a single user
Why hello there old friends! Turns out the Powersloths have been just that – sloths. While they have still been coding away they have been a tad lazy with updating code to the site....
Dolla, dolla, code y'all
-
Query servers for multiple processes running under a single user
Why hello there old friends! Turns out the Powersloths have been just that – sloths. While they have still been coding away they have been a tad lazy with updating code to the site....
-
Check Windows Virtual Machines for Partition Alignment
Incorrect virtual machine partition alignment can be the cause of performance issues in a vSphere virtualised environment. Here is a script that will check Windows Virtual Machines to validate if their disk partition alignment...
-
Enable and set passwords for user accounts on bulk
Howdy Sloths, this week we present an easy solution for a time consuming task. Imagine you had 200 user accounts that had been created and disabled. During the creation passwords weren’t recorded so when...
-
A quick and easy Cisco UCS backup script
This is a re-post of an original script I wrote for my old blog at awesomeman.com. In essence it is a Cisco UCS backup script utilising the UCS Powertool CMDlets provided by Cisco. Prior...
Check Windows Virtual Machines for Partition Alignment
Incorrect virtual machine partition alignment can be the cause of performance issues in a vSphere virtualised environment. Here is a script that will check Windows Virtual Machines to validate if their disk partition alignment...
Enable and set passwords for user accounts on bulk
Howdy Sloths, this week we present an easy solution for a time consuming task. Imagine you had 200 user accounts that had been created and disabled. During the creation passwords weren’t recorded so when...
A quick and easy Cisco UCS backup script
This is a re-post of an original script I wrote for my old blog at awesomeman.com. In essence it is a Cisco UCS backup script utilising the UCS Powertool CMDlets provided by Cisco. Prior...
Lookup and Translate Domain SIDs
Translate Domain SIDs.ps1 A simple script today to perform a look up of an array of SIDs (Security Identifiers) against an Active Directory domain to check if the object exists or not. The components that...
Find Virtual Machines With Active Memory Limits
get-vms-with-memory-limits.ps1 There is a well known issue with Virtual Machines running on all versions of ESX from 3.0 to 5.5 regarding memory limits. The VMWare KB Article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003470 goes into detail but in summary,...
How to count a users group membership in powershell
In our sample code today we demonstrate how to easily count a user objects group membership. An example scenario is when investigating user kerberos token bloat. Token bloat can occur when a users group...
Remove target group members via powershell
Todays code is useful for removing a large amount of users from one or many targeted groups. This script was created in response to multiple users being added to AD groups by accident –...
Get or set users mobile numbers from active directory in bulk
Today is a double whammy. Here are two scripts to help achieve a single task. In this instance, you have been requested to dump all the user objects mobile numbers and then update the...
Get user mapped drives
Today we bring you a script to help record users mapped drives. In this scenario, the script was deployed as a logon script and the report was stored on a shared UNC path for...