Scripts - Category - pr0mpt

Using Pester for Infrastructure testing

robert — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:37:32 +0200

Recently the company I am working at was running into performance issues which became a pain to sort out as it was so sporadic (lasted like 5 mins max every time), but when it happened it affected the entire company.

DuPSUG Basics - Deux

robert — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:10:59 +0200

Today was another great day with other PowerShell enthousiasts where I got to share some tricks of the trade. During DuPSUG’s second Basics event, I was once again able to provide a session, this time about “Improving your Scripts”. I had a blast and I hope others did too and as promised I’ve made my code available on GitHub on the general DuPSUG GitHub. I’d like to thank all the people attending today’s session for your time and patience, all other speakers for sharing their time, code and tricks and of course @EJHeeres for arranging the event perfectly.

Script Dumpster: Find duplicate entries over multiple reports

robert — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:42:25 +0200

Another day at the office.. Thanks to our friends who wrote the NotPetya worm, I received an email from our monitoring vendor to run reports to see if our machines are up-to-date on their patching. Unfortunately their reporting tool doesn’t properly distinguish between Windows Server 2008 and Windows 2008 R2, as well as Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2. Long story short, I had to create 4 separate reports, telling me if I had or had not installed the proper KB item on each machine.

Script Dumpster: Copy your MDT Task Sequence

robert — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:50:42 +0200

Ever have a Task Sequence in MDT which you customized and configured to use a specific driver profile, then having to create a second one just for another model and you have to copy everything over? Well, I did and didn’t like it. So according to Johan Arwidmark [if you’re into MDT and don’t already know this guy, get to know him!], this is possible in various ways. Now while I used his approach, I didn’t like the fact that it wasn’t easily re-usable and I still had to provide various data myself.

Automagically update your MDT Boot Image

robert — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:50:08 +0200

In case you’re using Microsoft’s awesome Microsoft Deployment Toolkit [MDT] solution, there might be a thing you don’t often do, but can take up a while of your time and can have quite some impact if you forget a few steps.. What I’m talking about is updating/regenerating your MDT Boot Images and replacing them within Windows Deployment Services [WDS]. Of course such a thing is ideally done through PowerShell as it automates and thus limits the amount of human errors possible.

SCCM: Code breakdown - Deploy Application to Device Collection

robert — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:00:22 +0200

As you might have noticed, I’m having fun playing around with SCCM lately and have really noticed that PowerShell is king here. While the application has great potential, I personally feel that the GUI is lacking functionality which you can only obtain through PowerShell. Of course this isn’t a problem, merely a challenge in some cases, but I feel that they could’ve stepped up a bit. It at least explains why I see so many SCCM admins playing around with PowerShell.

SCCM : Refresh Device Collection Memberships

robert — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:00:52 +0200

I’m in the finishing stages of a new SCCM deployment, but also in the process of an Active Directory consolidation at the moment, and ran in to the following issue: A machine from Domain A has been re-imaged using SCCM to run in Domain B. SCCM has a Device Collection X for Domain A and Device Collection Y for Domain B. Device Collection Y has a Deployment for a specific VPN Application that’s required, otherwise it won’t run.

SCCM: Get-AppUninstallInfo - Easily creating SCCM Applications

robert — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:00:11 +0200

New toys! As mentioned before, I’ve recently started a new assignment, one that required me to design and roll out a System Center Configuration Manager solution for 4 locations. While that wasn’t too difficult and the configuration was quite straightforward [thanks to my friends at Manning and Google], the biggest challenge came when creating packages to deploy. Luckily I was quite familiar with packaging and .MSI editing due to various MDT configurations I had made, but the latest “Current Branch” version of SCCM has “Applications”, which are smart packages [pieces of software] which you can deploy, but also uninstall if you want.

Script Dumpster: Setting Proxy server settings

robert — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:45:04 +0200

OK, so I’m at my new job and for the first time in years, I have to deal with proxy servers again… Since I’m used to having full admin rights on my machine and unrestricted internet, this was somewhat of a shock, while perfect for my productivity as well 😛 Unfortunately for them, I have since been informed that a special IT proxy is available, which provides this access, hence me being able to update my site again 🙂

#OSC - Journey into PowerShell - SlideDeck and code

robert — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:34:46 +0200

Hi all, It’s been a while, but I’ve kept myself busy in the meantime. During my last post on my blog, I was waiting for an assignment at my new job at OSC, only to be presented with a new challenge which kept me from posting for a while [expect more posts soon!!]. In the meantime I had also agreed to provide small training/demo session on PowerShell along with my new colleague Danny den Braver, to show people how awesome it actually is, while even showing them some PowerShell on Linux things [a few Linux guys there 🙂 ].