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PowerShell - Retrieve System Startup Time Information

The below script gathers the following system startup time information from a local or remote client. - Computername - Last Wakeup time (from Sleep, H...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 6, 2014

PowerShell - Creating Dummy files

Here’s a function I wrote to create a large dummy file either filled with zero’s or random characters. The -Target parameter must be eitehr a file inc...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, January 2, 2014

PowerShell - Using the WordPress Rest API

I just found out that meanwhile (since October last year) the Rest API for wordpress now also works on self-hosted wordpress sites. So i can now acces...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, December 29, 2013

PowerShell - Creating Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell version 3

I am currently working on a script where I need to create a scheduled task that runs a powershell script at a given time. With PowerShell 4.0 a schedu...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, December 29, 2013

PowerShell - Get Stock Quote Information

The below script makes use of a webservice hosted by webserviceX.net and provides stock quote information. ``` <# .Synopsis Retrieve stock information...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, December 15, 2013

PowerShell - Retrieve App-V 4.6 Package Information

Today we’ve been looking at App-V 4.6 package settings before and after migrating them from ConfigMgr 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012, so after opening the App...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, December 2, 2013