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• SET-ACL on registry key

  Man it was hard to find info on using set-acl on a registry key!   I was looking for a way to set an ACL that once set would be inherited by child keys and values.    We needed to give “Local Service” full control on the registry... Posted Sep 29 2008, 10:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Powershell, Business up front, Ghetto scripting

• Using invoke-command to launch a script on a remote computer which connects to network resources.

  First, I found the details here . Second, things can change as this is being done with the CTP for Powershell 2.0 Third, if you don’t know about remoting in 2.0 watch this 5 minute video . Then read this . Whew. Backstory: You might find yourself in a... Posted Sep 26 2008, 02:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Powershell, Business up front, Ghetto scripting

• Display warning text when someone logs onto your servers

  This works for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008.  We use it during our reliability study to let the server owners know that they shouldn't reboot their boxes without a good reason.  You can use it for whatever you’d like. :)   The two... Posted Sep 24 2008, 07:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business up front, Windows 2003, Vista and Lognhorn, Ghetto scripting, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008

• Getting Access Denied when trying to query root\MSCluster namespace remotely against Windows 2008.

  Ran into a weird issue where I was getting access denied when trying to query nodes remotely in powershell.  The query was working fine against Windows 2003 cluster names and worked locally when ran on a Windows 2008 cluster node, it just didn’t... Posted Sep 08 2008, 01:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Powershell, Business up front, Ghetto scripting, Windows Server 2008

• Find out who pings on a subnet quick and easy

  So i know there are tools out there to do this but figured some would be interested on how to do this real quick with stuff that's already in the OS.   1) Turn off echos to make the out put clean (don’t forget to turn it back on when its done... Posted Apr 23 2008, 06:57 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business up front, Ghetto scripting

• Hey Admins! Gathering information from remote machines using WMI (the easy way).

  Those who are just getting into scripting might be wondering how to query info from remote machines using WMI and how to find useful information to query.  When I started out trying to learn some of the WMI syntax and gathering info, ... Posted Mar 14 2008, 05:48 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business up front, Ghetto scripting, Cool Tools

• Using TypePerf to get performance data on the command prompt.

  I was tracking a high CPU issue this week and needed to know when one of my servers was pegged so I could investigate. I could of used perfmon I guess but I really like to do everything I can from the command prompt. I always like it when there is a tool... Posted Sep 22 2007, 04:29 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Business up front, Vista and Lognhorn, Ghetto scripting, XP, Metrics, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008, Admin

• Are there pending operations waiting for a reboot?

  Sometimes you might log onto a server and wonder if there have been patches installed and thing needs to be rebooted. Well if the patch wanted to replace a file that was in use by the system (like NTFS for example) then it populates a certain key in the... Posted Jun 27 2007, 12:21 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Business up front, Windows 2003, Vista and Lognhorn, Ghetto scripting

• Need an easy way to create a unique file name with the date?

  I needed to dump winlogon and do some checks against the dump file and needed and easy way to get the computername and date in the file name and formatted so I could easily perfrom next steps. Here was the soution: C:\Debuggers>echo %computername%_... Posted Apr 12 2007, 03:46 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business up front, Ghetto scripting