Category Archives: scripts

Fix Duplicate WSUS ClientIDs Using PowerShell

Posted on October 16, 2013 by

A common issue when using a ‘template’ or an OS image that hasn’t been sysprepped is that each client that has the same clientID will appear and disappear from the WSUS console (only 1 client will appear at a time). … Continue reading →

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Find All SQL Instances Using PowerShell Plus A Little More

Posted on September 15, 2013 by

A while back I saw this the following post on the PowerShell Magazine that showed how to get all of the instances of a SQL server. This was pretty cool, but only listed the instances and nothing else (well it … Continue reading →

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Make a Window Flash in Taskbar using PowerShell and PInvoke

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

While working on a different project, I came across the need to do some sort of notification when something happened during a script. I didn’t need popup or some loud noise to alert me, but something a little subtle to … Continue reading →

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Get All Members of a Local Group Using PowerShell

Posted on August 11, 2013 by

I wrote a function a while back that is used to query a local group on a remote or local system (or systems) and based on the –Depth parameter, will perform a recursive query for all members of that group … Continue reading →

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Create a Hard Link Using PowerShell

Posted on July 18, 2013 by

Following on the heels of my last article where I talked about creating a symbolic link using PowerShell, I figured I would throw another script out there that will do what mklink.exe does with creating a hard link and do … Continue reading →

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