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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 7 Driver Recovery

Posted by gygon on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

I had the first issue I’ve seen so far with Windows 7 today, actually it was the new beta NVidea driver that I’m running. While in the middle of working my screen blanked out..just as I started muttering the slew of curses it came back online and the little balloon popped up saying there was a problem with the driver and it had been recovered. SWEET!

While having a video driver crash and make you reboot isn’t the end of the world it’s certainly a pain in the @$$ so seeing Windows automatically recover from this type of error is a major plus.

Posted in: Tech, Windows.

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