AspenForester’s gists

AspenForester / Show-ServerBootTime.ps1

Created May 16, 2014 16:12

Powershell to create a grid view of Server boot times. This is just a quick and dirty script (its really just a long one-liner), needs to be redeveloped into a more reusable tool.

	# requires -version 3.0
	$filter = {((name -notlike "d") -and (name -notlike "q")) -and ((name -notlike "dev") -and (name -notlike "vdev"))}
	$SB = "OU=Servers,OU=Computers,OU=MyLocale,OU=MyDataCenterr,OU=NA,DC=foo,DC=local"

	Get-ADComputer -filter $filter -SearchBase $SB -SearchScope Subtree \|
	where {(Test-Connection -ComputerName $_.name -Count 1 -Quiet)} \|
	% { Get-WmiObject -Class win32_operatingsystem -computername $_.name -Verbose} \|
	select csname, @{LABEL='LastBootUpTime';EXPRESSION={$_.ConverttoDateTime($_.lastbootuptime)}} \|
	#Sort-Object -Property LastBootUpTime
	Out-GridView -Title "Production Servers"

AspenForester / Clear-ADGroupMember.ps1

Created May 16, 2014 16:36

A couple of quick functions for AD group maintenance

	# requires version 3.0
	<# Clear-ADGroupMember
	.Synopsis
	Removes all users from an AD group
	.DESCRIPTION
	Removes all users from an AD group provided to the script.
	.EXAMPLE
	“my-group” \| Clear-ADGroupMember

	#>

AspenForester / event1.ps1

Created May 16, 2014 17:39

2013 PowerShell Scripting Games

	{$_.Creationtime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-90)} \|
	ForEach-Object {
	Move-Item -Force -Recurse -Path $_.FullName -Destination $($_.FullName.Replace("C:\Application\Log","\\NASServer\Archives"))

	}

AspenForester / Get-SummitSeats.ps1

Created November 1, 2016 21:14

Parses the HTML for the 2017 PowerShell Summit Eventloom page and returns the current number of available seats. It was written very as a think-type-do exercise. Show me you can do better!

	$url = "https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"

	$page = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url

	$outertext = $page.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName("div") \| where Classname -eq "col-md-6" \| Select -ExpandProperty OuterText

	$AvailableText = ($outertext -split '[\r\n]').Where({$_ -like "avail"})

	$SeatsAvailable = $AvailableText.Split(' ')[0]

AspenForester / PlayingCardsClasses.ps1

Last active November 15, 2016 21:42

	Class PlayingCard {
	[String] $Suit
	[String] $FaceValue
	hidden [int] $Value

	PlayingCard (){}

	PlayingCard ([String] $Suit, [String] $FaceValue){
	$this.Suit = $Suit
	$this.FaceValue = $FaceValue

AspenForester / NBU8.cmd

Last active January 4, 2018 14:56

I usually run this remotely with psexec \\target -h -u domain\adminuser -c nbu8.cmd This is an improvement on the silent installer that comes with Netbackup. You need to add your org's info lines 16 and 23, plus create and point to a share on line 62 that at least contains the PC_Clnt\x64 directory from the install media.

	@REM $Id: silentclient.cmd,v 1.24 2012/06/04 18:55:53 $
	@ECHO -----------------------
	@ECHO %COMPUTERNAME%
	@DATE /T
	@TIME /T
	@ECHO -----------------------
	@ECHO OFF

	REM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	SET CLIENT=%COMPUTERNAME%

AspenForester / Get-PowerShellSummit2018AvailableSeats.ps1

Created January 4, 2018 19:08

Quick and dirty, should return the number of seats available for the 2018 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit

	$Foo = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-registration-32452427083' -UseBasicParsing

	$null = $foo -match 'remaining":(\d{1,3})'

	$Matches[1]

AspenForester / Compare-Things.ps1

Last active June 11, 2018 13:25

Compare one thing to a collection of wildcarded things

	function Compare-Things
	{
	[CmdletBinding()]
	[OutputType([bool])]
	Param
	(
	# The singular thing that want to see if it matches
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
	ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
	Position=0)]

AspenForester / Register-DNSVMGuest.ps1

Created June 11, 2018 19:29

	function Register-DNSVMGuest
	{
	#Requires -modules VMware.VimAutomation.Core,DNSClient
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	# Parameter help description
	[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
	[ValidateNotNullorEmpty]
	[String]
	$VIServer,

AspenForester / Test-WSManAllServer.ps1

Created June 14, 2018 20:05

Tests for WSMan being enabled on one or more computers, and returns an object containing the computer name and a boolean value.

	function Test-AllWSMANServer
	{
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
	# Computername
	[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
	[String[]]
	$ComputerName
	)

	# requires -version 3.0
	$filter = {((name -notlike "d") -and (name -notlike "q")) -and ((name -notlike "dev") -and (name -notlike "vdev"))}
	$SB = "OU=Servers,OU=Computers,OU=MyLocale,OU=MyDataCenterr,OU=NA,DC=foo,DC=local"

	Get-ADComputer -filter $filter -SearchBase $SB -SearchScope Subtree \|
	where {(Test-Connection -ComputerName $_.name -Count 1 -Quiet)} \|
	% { Get-WmiObject -Class win32_operatingsystem -computername $_.name -Verbose} \|
	select csname, @{LABEL='LastBootUpTime';EXPRESSION={$_.ConverttoDateTime($_.lastbootuptime)}} \|
	#Sort-Object -Property LastBootUpTime
	Out-GridView -Title "Production Servers"

JB Lewis AspenForester