Remote Software Uninstall with Powershell

Lets say you are in a position where you need to uninstall something from a remote machine for whatever reason…maybe it’s software that’s no longer needed, maybe the user shouldn’t have installed it, or maybe you just want to mess with someone.  Me personally, I would rather do this remotely than go to the person’s machine and interrupt whatever they […]

DHCP At 100%, the fix and automating it for the future…

I ran across an issue this week where my DHCP server started throwing “warnings” that there were only 11 addresses left.  Looking at the Leases it was pretty obvious that that wasn’t true though.  So, how do you handle that?  I did some looking around and probably about 90% of what I could find out there was to reduce the […]

Powershell to Find Service Accounts

A while back I had a need to check all the servers in my domain and see what services were logged in with “special” accounts.  In other words, find any service that’s not running off of a default builtin account.  A script like this comes in very handy when it comes time to update the password on an AD account that […]

Deleting Files with Powershell

Recently I had an issue in my environment on a reasonably old and very slow system, one of those machines that does something very specific and always works.  The problem is that I was going to replace the hard drive and I had to clean up a backup folder that it had.  On a very slow hard drive deleting some […]