Powershell Snippet for getting all Sites hosted on an IIS Server in a CSV File

nbeam published 8 years ago in IIS, Microsoft, Powershell, Web Administration. Tags: IIS all sites and bindings to CSV, Powershell Command to Show all IIS Sites and Bindings, Powershell Web Administration Module

I work with a lot of IIS servers. Keeping track of what sites are present on which servers can sometimes be a daunting task. Heretofore I have been dealing with the rather obnoxious and time consuming process of checking sites and bindings by looking at each one in the IIS console. The other day I […]

Powershell Script for Quickly Creating Active Directory Security Groups

nbeam published 8 years ago in Domain Administration, Microsoft, Powershell, Windows Administration. Tags: Powershell Active Directory, Powershell Add Security Group, Powershell Interactive Prompts

I found myself creating security groups for different servers in one of my domains over and over again and using the GUI can get a bit tedious. So I decided to write a quick powershell script that provides an interactive prompt asking for the server name, group type (select from options) and then from there […]

Procedural vs Object Oriented Programming

nbeam published 9 years ago in Powershell, Programming. Tags: Object Oriented, Procedural, Programming

To make this comparison we need to first consider the problem that both approaches help us to solve. When programming any system you are essentially dealing with data and the code that changes that data. These two fundamental aspects of programming are handled quite differently in procedural systems compared with object oriented systems, and these […]

Powershell Script to Open a Web Page and Bypass SSL Certificate Errors

nbeam published 9 years ago in Microsoft, Powershell, SSL. Tags: Powershell browse website, Powershell bypass SSL certificate warning, Powershell conditional statements, Powershell SSL certificate error, Powershell web scraping

I have been using powershell to automate Internet Explorer interactions with a web application with a login page in our internal environment at work. I ran into an issue with my script because the page I was trying to access was secured with SSL and we were using a self-signed certificate. This causes Internet Explorer […]

Powershell Script for Pulling the Local Server IP and Dynamically Updating the Windows Hosts file

nbeam published 9 years ago in Azure, Microsoft, Powershell. Tags: Powershell Trim string, Powershell Variables, Trimend, TrimStart, write content to a text file using powershell

This is redacted version of a powershell script I had to come up with recently to fix an issue with a web application in our environment. $hostsPath = "$env:windir\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" $ip = ipconfig | findstr /i IPv4 |Out-string $ip = $ip.TrimStart("IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : ") $ip = […]

Powershell Scripting KungFu for Active Directory User Management – Disabling Contractor Accounts that are over 90 days old…

nbeam published 10 years ago in Domain Administration, Microsoft, Network Security, Powershell.

We recently had a security requirement come down the line that required me to leave the wading pool of GPO administration behind and dive into the stormy waters of Powershell scripting. I am not going to dive into a full explanation of how to get started on powershell. What I am going to do is […]

Microsoft Azure – Script for Generating VHD files for existing VM’s

nbeam published 10 years ago in Azure, Powershell. Tags: Add VHD Files to VM Powershell, Azure PowerShell, Microsoft Azure, Powershell

I had some trouble finding some good examples of syntax and full explanation for creating VHD files (attaching new hard drives) from the Azure Powershell command line and attaching them to existing VMs. Here is my quick and dirty method of doing just that…

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