A quick Powershell script example using the Windows Server 2012 Windows Backup cmdlets to perform a backup. Continue reading →

Another powershell script. This time making use of the .NET DirectorySearcher class. The title pretty much says it all – the output from the script lists each Exchange server in the organization with the number of mailboxes hosted. Continue reading →

Out of the box, WSUS is capable of reporting update status in a number of permutations, but I always seem to need some combination that I can’t easily derive using the GUI.

I recently needed to determine the status of a particular update (KB958644) for a number of computers that spanned different WSUS groups. I knew that there was a .NET API for WSUS management and so Powershell seemed to the most appropriate tool to use. I found this script example which got me started. Continue reading →