gygon

Featured

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 Iâ€™m looking to monitor are not part of a domain, are in remote locations on isolated networks. Some of the main things Iâ€™m looking [...]

PowerBoots for PowerShell

Posted by gygon on Friday, March 20th, 2009

Came across a post today on an introduction to PowerBoots. WOW!
Iâ€™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!

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 [...]

Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Blog Theme

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Came across this cool theme for Wordpress and decided it fit well with this blog so decided to use it. The Wordpress Fun theme is from Smashing Magazine, they also have other great themes as well. Hopefully I can spend some time getting the customization and tweaks done.

Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Get Your Geek ON!

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Get Your Geek ON is a term my wife coined a few years back whenever I would be going to do something on the computer. Itâ€™s become common to hear these days so Iâ€™m not going to say she was either the first or the only person to think of it but that is where [...]