Category Archives: scripts

Quick-Hits: Find currently logged on users

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Boe Prox

I was recently tasked with locating all servers on our network and query for users that were currently logged onto each server, either through a terminal session or logged on via console session.  This got me thinking of what ways … Continue reading →

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Retrieving Windows Experience Index via WMI

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Boe Prox

You may have seen this on your Vista or Windows 7 machine. As you can tell, mine is probably average, but did you know that you can retrieve this locally or remotely via WMI using the Win32_WinSat class? You can … Continue reading →

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Scanning ports on multiple hosts

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Boe Prox

Recently we had an issue that called into the use of checking to see if some ports were open and listening on our servers.  Naturally, we could have used a tool such as portqry.exe to gather this information. However, you … Continue reading →

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Converting CSV file or files into an Excel workbook

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Boe Prox

Update 07SEPT2010: Updated script based on an excellent comment to use the Paste() method for converting CSV files into an excel workbook. Thanks Luc! While going through the Technet Powershell Forums and Scripting Guys Forums, I came across a question … Continue reading →

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Convert bytes to highest available unit

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Boe Prox

Unfortunately, I had something else in mind to post this weekend, but life and some other things prevented me from doing so.  Maybe next weekend… Because I wanted to get at least something out this weekend, I am going to … Continue reading →

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