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PowerShell - Finding ConfigMgr Collections and Members

The below script provides a simple and quick method to find ConfigMgr Collections and its members. The script has a -Name parameter that accepts the e...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, January 8, 2014

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 latest Microsoft KB information

I frequently visit kbupdate.info which is a great resource for finding latest KB updates, but still you have to manually click through the various lis...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, December 17, 2013