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In the ever-evolving world of IT, efficiency and automation are key to managing complex systems and networks. PowerShell, with its powerful scripting capabilities, is the go-to tool for IT administrators to automate routine tasks, improve productivity, and maintain system health. To help you get started, I’ve created a public GitHub repo with a collection of
Introduction to PowerShell for File Searches PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. One of its useful functionalities is the ability to search for files containing a specific string. This capability can streamline many administrative tasks, making it easier to manage and locate vital information across your file
In today’s fast-paced IT environments, automating routine tasks is not just beneficial; it’s essential. One of the most common automation tasks is sending emails. PowerShell, with its versatile cmdlets and scripting capabilities, provides a powerful tool for this purpose. This article delves into how you can leverage PowerShell to send emails, both with and without
PowerShell is an extremely powerful scripting language developed by Microsoft that lets you automate tasks on your computer, and manage system resources. It is built on the .NET framework and comes with a command-line interface. Whether you’re a system administrator, a developer, or an IT enthusiast looking to enhance your automation skills, this article will
Installing PowerShell on Mac OS X is a relatively simple process that can be done in a few easy steps. Please note: these instructions are for Mac OS X version after 10.13 and above, as PowerShell only supports 64-bit versions. If you are running on earlier version of mac, you need to install package management
PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to automate and manage Windows systems. One of the best ways to customise your PowerShell experience is by creating a custom profile. A profile is a script that runs every time you start PowerShell, and it can be used to set up your environment, load
PowerShell is a powerful tool for Windows administrators, developers, and power users. It allows you to automate tasks, manage Windows systems, and access a wide range of functionality through its built-in commands and modules. In this blog post, we’ll share some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of PowerShell. 1) Get-Help
Windows Terminal is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used to manage your Windows operating system. It is a command-line interface (CLI) that allows users to access and control their Windows systems from the command line. It is an essential tool for anyone who wants to get the most out of their Windows
Whether you are interested in buying, or selling, property via Rightmove, you might want to download the images. Now sure, you can do this one-by-one, by right clicking on each photo (when viewed full screen) and choose to copy/save the photos, but that’s a very manual task, which will take you time. This type of
If you need to work with multiple files (e.g. log files) and want to identify them by using wildcards, you can take the below approach: 1 Identify the folder to work in, and add it to a variable. You can use .\ to use the current folder, or put a full path (e.g. C:\temp) 2
When running multiple scripts, either at the same time, or sequentially, it’s nice to know which script is running. An easy way to do this, it to set the title of the PowerShell window, when the script is running. To do this, simply ad the below code to the top of your PowerShell script: Now
Detecting HTTPS in your asp.net c# web app is fairly straight forward in a normal environment with a single server solution, as you can see from the below example: if (HttpContext.Current.Request.IsSecureConnection) { Response.Write("Using HTTPS"); } else { Response.Write("Using HTTP"); } The problem comes when your web application is on multiple servers and behind a load
If you want to see what channel your wireless network, or the neighbouring networks, then you can run the below script in either PowerShell or the Command Prompt. netsh wlan show networks bssid Why look at the channels that the wireless networks are using? The main reason to look at the wireless channel on your
If you operate a list of allowed mac addresses on your DHCP server to prevent unauthorised users/devices from obtaining an IP address, it can be a pain to have to constantly open the DHCP console and disable/enable the list and/or add a new device to the list. To make this easier, you can setup a
If you need to take your website offline, for any reason (eg. database maintenance, site move etc), you can do so very easily by just creating one .htm file and dropping in the root folder of your website. Here’s what you need to do: How to create a asp.net maintenance notice Create a blank HTML
You can easily use PowerShell to delete files that are older than x minutes/hours/days. This is useful if you have a temporary folder which you would like to regularly clear down. Please see the below examples: Delete files older than x minutes Get-ChildItem -path C:\temp | where {$_.Lastwritetime -lt (date).addminutes(-5)} | remove-item Delete files older
If you need to redirect a page to another page or site, it’s best to use a 301 redirect to help retain some of your SEO work. It’s believed that a 301 redirect will reduce your PageRank by only 15%, compared with the 100% loss if you just redirect or use a 302 redirect. To
If you want to choose which AccodionPane is selected, you generally use the SelectedIndex command. However, if you want to select which AccordionPane is active by its ID and when you binded your data to your ajax accordion you set the ID of each AccordionPane you can use the below code: This example is based
As you know when you use the accordion element of the Ajax Toolkit, one of the panes is automatically open on load. Well there is a way around this, simply add the below to your page loading sub: MyAccordion.selectedindex = "-1" An example of this in place would be: Private Sub Page_Load() If Not Page.IsPostBack
Users often don’t remember to use https:// when access Outlook Web Access, they simply just use https://. So to automatically redirect them to the same address but with https:// simply follow the below: 1) Logon to your exchange server 2) Open ‘My Computer’ 3) Navigate to: ‘c:\Inetpub\wwwroot’ 4) You should see two files, ‘default.aspx’ and
If your website doesn’t display properly in IE8, then it’s recommended that you amend your code, but in the meantime you could force Internet Explorer 8 to run in the compatibility mode. Simply add the below line to the top of the <head></head> section of your website: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> An example of this is place would be:
To increase the spacing between bullet points with CSS simple add the below code to your .css file: ul li { margin:.5em 10% .5em 0; } Obviously you can change the values to reach your desired spacing, but the above works well and looks neat and tidy. An example using this method would look like
If your website shows the compatibility button when you browse it in IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) then this is how to remove the button. Simply add the below line to the <head></head> section of your website: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> An example of this is place would be: <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> </head> This
If you’re using the TabContainer, which is part of the Ajax Control Toolkit and have noticed that when you remove a tab you have issues accessing the values from a DropDownList using .SelectedItem.Value or .SelectedValue then below is the solution: Instead of using the below to remove a tab: TabContainer1.Tabs.Remove(TabPanel1) Use this code to remove
If you want internet browsers to recognise your XML/RSS feeds as soon as a visitor reaches your website, then this article is for you. Browsers such as Internet Explorer 7 have XML/RSS functionality built in and you can make the most of this by enabling the feed button on the toolbar. To do this, all
As long as your printer is networked, connected to a print server and shared, then mapping the printer via a logon script is fairly easy. Firstly consider adding an echo line of text to inform users of what’s happening. For example: echo Installing printers... Then the code to map the printers on the client machines
There are two ways to map a network drive and each is more useful in a different situation. Method 1 This way is the more efficient of the two and most useful if the network path never changes. If not exist P: net use P: \\server\networkshare Method 2 This method is more useful if the
To set you client machines to the same time, simply decide on a server to use as the time source. Then consider adding a echo message to inform the user of what is happening. For example: echo System time set by SERVER Then enter your code as something like this: NET TIME \\SERVER /set /yes
This can be very handy when you have set a group policy to display a certain background image/file. Lefts say your group policy is configured to set everyones background to a image file called back.jpg which should be present on the client computers C drive and this file is kept in a hidden share on
Have you noticed those nasty dotted lines around links when you click on them in Firefox? Well here’s how to get rid of them, and it’s quite simple really just add the below text to you <a> tag: onfocus="blur()" So your final link would look something like this: <a href="page.htm" onfocus="blur()">link text</a> Or an image