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To ping or not to ping..The PowerShell way
As Seen on PowerShell.org !!! The inspiration for this blog came from a forum post on Powershell.org that I helped contributed on. The question asked was, how to display the name of failed ping, i.e. $computer is offline. There were some great responses, the one I most liked which I slightly amended into a function...…
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ConfigMgr overview: quick view of servers and roles
If you have a reasonable sized Configuration Manager environment, then quickly displaying servers, with a list of roles installed and the number roles for each site is not easy. This sort of information can be useful to your manager, a 3rd party coming in to do a review or walking into a new job. This script...…
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PS Function : IP to Hostname / Hostname to IP
Here is a short reusable function that came about when I recently had an error popup with just an IP address. Turned out it was error many users were getting that caused a problem in the company. From the IP address I wanted to get the Hostname to ask the Wintel department if they knew...…
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Deployment, What's my status?!
Deployments…as an SCCM administrator you are always deploying something … be it applications or software updates or even a task sequence. Through the console you go into monitoring, select deployments …. find what you have deployed…then go through and check status to see what targeted devices have been successful or even failed. Maybe you make...…
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Where has my Application been Deployed to?
First off, welcome to my blog. As my blog develops you will see i’m always looking for a way to do things a bit quicker and hopefully easier! So some background. I work for a medium size company using SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 with many applications from in-house developed to 3rd party. Our software library...…
name := "Graham Beer"
`Cloud Engineer with his head in the AWS clouds, authored chapters in the PowerShell Conference Book 1 & 2 and currently learning and enjoying Go
