Otto Helweg - Management Matters

Management, monitoring, automation, and instrumentation topics for the IT-Pro.

Trigger a PowerShell Script from a Windows Event

Note: Portions of this blog are taken from an old blog post titled “Reference the Event That...

Date: 08/24/2011

Quick and Dirty Reset of a Hyper-V VM with PowerShell

Note: Remember, this is a “Quick and Dirty” solution. In fact, because credentials are...

Date: 08/22/2011

Sample PowerShell 2.0 Remoting Commands

The following are a list of commands that I demonstrated at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans. Actually I...

Date: 06/23/2010

Case Study: Using Diagnostics-Performance Events as a Desktop Health Indicator

Note: The solution below only pretains to new installations of Windows Vista+ since specific...

Date: 03/15/2010

Forwarding Security Events from Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista/Server 2008

Security events are different than other Windows events because they require a special level of...

Date: 06/22/2009

Hyper-V Virtual Identification

Since virtual machines can be easily moved between physical hosts (parents), it becomes important to...

Date: 08/04/2008

Quick and Dirty Large Scale Eventing for Windows

One of the least known yet most powerful management features to ship with Windows Vista and Windows...

Date: 07/08/2008

Reference The Event That Triggered Your Task

Task Scheduler 2.0 (which shipped with Vista and Windows Server 2008) is a complete re-write of the...

Date: 11/09/2007

Quick and Dirty Web Site Monitoring with PowerShell

The other day Mark noticed that redirections for our https://www.sysinternals.com/ URL were...

Date: 08/23/2007

Quick and Dirty Software Inventory with PsInfo and PowerShell

PsInfo is great for gathering asset information from Windows computers, both locally and remotely....

Date: 03/04/2007

Automate E-Mail Alerts with Windows Vista

The Windows Task Scheduler as been completely re-written for Windows Vista to be a very powerful...

Date: 03/01/2007

WS-Man Ping Test

WS-Man (Windows Remote Management) is a new protocol and framework first delivered in Windows 2003...

Date: 02/21/2007

A Few Good Vista WS-Man (WinRM) Commands

In Vista, a lot of instrumentation, configuration, and utilization information is exposed via...

Date: 02/09/2007