I’ve blogged about this from the reversed perspective on my own blog about finding user groups with a small section about what you can do if your thinking about getting one off the ground which you can read at http://blog.kilasuit.org/2016/04/17/how-to-find-local-user-groups-events-my-experience/ and it was only natural to eventually blog from the other side too although this has come up a bit earlier than I had planned to but alas it gets it done
Do you have photos and videos that you have taken over the years that are scattered all over the place? Do you want to have all your photos and videos organized? Do you want all your photos and videos to have a standardized naming scheme? If you answered YES to these questions, then this is the post for you. In this post, I will provide you with the PowerShell code and examples for how to use the Media Sync script. The Media Sync script utilizes the Shell.Application COM object to gather file metadata. Only files that have a picture or video metadata type will be processed. The script uses the date taken for pictures and the media created metadata fields to organize the photos and videos. If there is no date taken or media created available for a given file, the script will use the modify date instead. The script also ensures that you won’t have any duplicate files by checking the file hashes of the two files in question. If the script detects duplicate files, it will only keep one copy of the file. There are also tools included to help you cleanup unwanted files or folders, delete empty directories and find duplicate files. The script has a simple menu driven PowerShell GUI similar to what I did in a previous post
. The Media Sync PowerShell script provides the following features:
In this post, we are going to setup NetNeighbor Watch on a Raspberry Pi. NetNeighbor Watch can keep an eye on your network and send you an email when a new host is discovered. NetNeighbor Watch is done completely in PowerShell. The results are very similar to those of arpwatch. NetNeighbor Watch is for anyone that wants more visibility into the wireless or wired devices on their network. We will also setup a weekly email report with all of the known hosts on your network. In this post, I will walk you through the entire process of setting this up from scratch on a Raspberry Pi, lets get started!
Do you have PowerShell code that you reuse in your scripts over and over? Do you have server names hard coded in variables? Are you using a text file or CSV file to import server names? Do you find yourself only utilizing one server out of a cluster of servers to make your PowerShell commands? These are the questions I asked myself and the answer used to be YES. In this post, I will go over how you can store your infrastructure server information in a SQL database and call that data from a custom PowerShell module. By utilizing this method, you can expect the below benefits:
Managing Citrix tags can be a long painful process if done the traditional way through Citrix Studio, that is what drove me to PowerShell for this task. Citrix Studio is a great tool, but it can be very time consuming especially if you have to do bulk tag actions. Citrix tags can be used in several methods, but I have focused on desktop tagging. This post will cover the following scenarios:
Over the years, I have supported and created multiple types of GUIs. I finally decided a few years ago to create a very simple menu driven PowerShell GUI. I wanted something that was very powerful yet very simple to maintain. I really enjoy automating manual administrative tasks, so that is what drove this project in the first place. Before I created the menu driven PowerShell GUI, I had directories and directories of very specific scripts to do specific tasks. I decided to standardize and consolidate all of those scripts into one menu driven PowerShell GUI. By doing this, I took the guess work out of determining which PowerShell script to run for a given task. This has greatly helped my colleagues know exactly what to run and how. Feel free to check it out for yourself at my site:
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. While you’re there, you can take a look at a few of my other related posts:
Hello, friends! Today I want to talk about the Iron Scripter code challenges and the accompanying website. The challenges are excellent for practicing challenging concepts. What’s that you say? Not familiar with Iron Scripter? Let’s get you up to speed.
Iron Scripter: A brief history lesson
The Iron Scripter website is part of the PowerShell.org family and provides material for the Iron Scripter challenge that takes place at PowerShell Summit each year. For those unfamiliar with the Iron Scripter event at PowerShell summit, let me give you a brief introduction.
The below link leads to the module I am writing about in this blog post. LINK TO POWERSHELL MODULE At my place of work a task needed to be completed that would allow us IT administrators to set the default lock screen image for our devices. Group Policy was my first thought however it was to broad of a solution. The rules basically became, set the default lock screen on some of the newer laptops and if a default lock screen has been manually chosen by a user; don’t change it. I figured great that is an easy module to write. I wanted to add the option to execute the command on remote computers as well which is what brought up a couple great unexpected behaviors. The cmdlets these include are New-PsDrive being executed on a remote machine and Copy-Item from a network location to a local location.
