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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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Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report

Posted by gygon on Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Cool little utility built into Windows 7 to survey your computers energy efficiency. Run a command prompt as Administrator and run the following:

powercfg –energy

This will run for a minute and then create a report for your system. The filename and path will be shown when it finishes running. Note that you may need to copy the html file from the \windows\system32\ folder to your desktop (or other folder the user has permissions on) before you can open it.

Posted in: Tech, Windows.

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