The Lonely Administrator

NetPoint Pro Review

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:49:37 +0000

My first work for Windows IT Pro has been released. In the August 2010 issue I wrote a review on Netpoint Pro. In short, I think many small to midsized companies should take a look, but I hope you’ll take … Continue reading →

Get Your TCP Ports Here!

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:37 +0000

Once again, the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com has undone me. I was answering a question about running Netstat in a PowerShell session on a remote computer which got me thinking about a PowerShell function to turn NETSTAT.EXE output into objects. … Continue reading →

Get Your Free Scripting Toolkit

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:01:50 +0000

If you were at this year's TechEd event in New Orleans, I hoped you dropped by the SAPIEN Technologies booth and picked up your free Scripting Toolkit. What's that you say? Check it out on the SAPIEN blog and then … Continue reading →

Mr. Roboto Scripts

Jeffery Hicks — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:00:12 +0000

I'm slowly trying to revise my main web site. The original site had a script library page where all of my old Mr. Roboto scripts resided for download. Unfortunately, in many of the online Mr. Roboto articles the link they … Continue reading →

WBADMIN Demo

Jeffery Hicks — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:05:47 +0000

Earlier this year I wrote an article for REDMOND Magazine about the new backup features in Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m not going to re-hash the article here except to say it includes some sample scripts on using the WBADMIN … Continue reading →

PowerShell Weather Module

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:54:51 +0000

I first wrote a Windows PowerShell function several years ago to retrieve weather information via Yahoo’s weather service. I’ve been itching to rewrite it and finally found some time over the weekend. Turns out it’s a good thing I did … Continue reading →

Get Parameter

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:51:34 +0000

As I continue to work on the 2nd edition of Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM, I find situations where I need a tool to get information out of Windows PowerShell. For example, the cmdlets in the Microsoft Active … Continue reading →

Export-Function

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:12:23 +0000

I love that you can do so much with PowerShell on the fly. For example, I don’t need to launch a script editor to create a PowerShell function. I can do it right from the command prompt. PS C:\> function … Continue reading →

This Old Script

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:39:15 +0000

I’m very slowly revising my main web site. The upshot for now is that there is no direct link to my old script library. Many of my Mr. Roboto tools can be found on this page. Until I can finish … Continue reading →

Running Veeam Jobs

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:58:28 +0000

I’m still fighting hardware issues with my ESX box (among other things) but I wanted to jot down some more notes on my experiences with PowerCLI and the Veeam backup cmdlets. Last week I wrote about how I created multiple … Continue reading →