get-service | where {$_.name -match "win"} Normally displays like this: Note how very long names can get cut off with the ellipses…. Did you know that Powershell has a “grid-view”, similar to SQL? get-service | where {$_.name -match "win"} | out-gridview If you pipe all get-service to the out-gridview, then you can see how you […]

This is basically a follow-up to the previous post How to add a where filter match/contains/like to any powershell cmdlet (such as Get-Service) Cmdlets are named in the format “verb-noun”, for example get-service, start-service, etc… Suppose you cannot remember all the verbs associated with a noun. You can run this: get-command -Noun process Recall from […]

Sometimes, when property names contain very long values, the default displays cuts part of the name, as shown with this command and its output. [“ellipsis” is the term for the … when a name is truncated] as shown in the example below: get-service | where {$_.name -match "win"}  | sort-object Status -desc   Simply pipe the […]

get-process  |  {$_.name -match "win"} Sample output is shown below. The above means “get all the process objects on this computer” and pipe that collection of objects to a where/filter where we only want to see processNames that contain the letters “host”. Example output: Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)     Id ProcessName ——-  ——    —–      —– —–   ——     — ———–      75       8      796       […]

The purpose of this script is to monitor disk space on a list of servers. Right now, it uses a hard-coded 20% as the point at which to send the email (look for variable $thresholdspace in the code below). An enhancement could be to have different percents on each server. The script reads a file […]

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