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Monitoring the Event Log with PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Saturday, March 21st, 2009

One of my goals with learning more about PowerShell is to be able to monitor the event logs on servers and notify me via email when certain events happen. The system I’m looking to monitor are not part of a domain, are in remote locations on isolated networks. Some of the main things I’m looking [...]

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PowerBoots for PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Friday, March 20th, 2009

Came across a post today on an introduction to PowerBoots. WOW!
I’m already thinking of more stuff I can automate to make my life (and some others in the office) a lot easier. Definitely need to learn more PowerShell & Boots!

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Email a web page through PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Thursday, March 19th, 2009

On a hosted web based app, I needed to go to a page every day to kick off a process. Nothing needed to be done on the page other than to open it and it would do it’s daily stuff. Easy, but a pain to have to do every day. And even more so on [...]

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Windows Server 2008 Foundation

Posted by gygon on Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Talk about a stealth launch from Microsoft, the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation was practically missed by most of the MS Partners in this area. While going through a Microsoft presentation from J.J. at the Palm Beach IT Association meeting the only person who had heard about it thought it was an April Fools joke.

Win2k8 Server Foundation is OEM only and is supposed to be available from Dell & HP or through a MS System builder but I haven’t seen any systems available as of yet.

Posted in: Tech, Windows.

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