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Monitor the Software registry hive size + send report by email

Purpose : The purpose of this script is to send a daily report with the following informations : – hostname – software registry hive size This script has been written to get a status of our SQL server with the

Monitor locked out user accounts

Purpose : The purpose of this project is to monitor Active Directory when a user account is locked out in a mixed DC OS (Windows 2003 and 2008). There are two scripts : the logging script runs on each domain

Monitor if a process is frozen

This script will be useful if you want to monitor if a process is frozen or not. The process manage files in a specific location (read, write and delete). The purpose is : check the number of files in the

Monitor certificate expiration

UPDATE : – new HTML template – added two informations : Root and Subordinate CA CRL expiration dates in the report Purpose : This project is a simple script to monitor the certificate expiration. When a certificate is about to

Monitor Active Directory database backup + report sent by email

The purpose of this project is to receive every day an email containing the status of the Active Directory database backup of all the domain controllers in a forest. I use the result from the following command : repadmin /showbackup

Kill all instances of the same process name

This script kill all instances of the process “Robocopy” Script : (get-process |where {$_.processname -eq “Robocopy”}) | stop-process Reference : Using the Stop-Process Cmdlet Terminating a Process Syntax Stop-Process -name string[] [-passThru] [-Force] [-confirm] [-whatIf] [CommonParameters] Stop-Process [-id] Int32[] [-passThru]

Group policy – Server access restriction

This project describes how to use the Active Directory group policies to restrict access on domain member servers. The needs are the following : Unauthorize remote logon (RDP) for the service accounts Add the service accounts to the local Administration group Add specific

Get user group membership

This script gets the group membership of a specific username Script : (GET-ADUSER –Identity username –Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf Reference Get-ADUser Syntax Get-ADUser -Filter [-ResultPageSize ] [-ResultSetSize ] [-SearchBase ] [-SearchScope { | | }] [-SearchScope { | |

Get the VMware tools status and version for all guests

This script connect to your VI Server, then retrieve all the virtual machine names and get the VMware tools status and version. Script: Connect-VIServer -Server VIServerName get-vm | % { get-view $_.ID } | select Name, @{ Name=”hostName”; Expression={$_.guest.hostName}}, @{

Get the virtual desktop uptime

This script lists the following informations : list all the VDI workstations from your VMware connexion servers that host the ldap database DC=vdi,DC=vmware,DC=int get the username assigned to the VDI check if the VDI is reachable (ping) and then get