Powershell – life as a sysadmin

Windows PowerShell 4.0 Preview

07/13/2013 Rick

As a systems administrator you like to stay on top of the latest technologies, right? Well you won’t want to miss the opportunity to get ahead of the curve and start experimenting with Windows PowerShell 4.0. It is included as part of the Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview located in the Microsoft Download Center. In addition to PowerShell 4.0, the

Administration, IIS, Powershell Powershell

PowerShell – command line interface on steroids

10/03/2012 Rick

Some of you were born with a cell phone in your hand. Others like me got their first exposure to computers and technology with the release of the 8088 processor and floppy drives. Those of us who have gone through the gauntlet of PC technology have also been exposed to the OS cycle of MS-DOS, Windows 3.X, and finally Windows 95 and

Powershell, Technology Powershell

Recycling IIS6 and IIS7 Application Pool With Powershell

07/26/2012 Rick

I recently came across a need to automatically recycle an application pool. I have a VBScript version in my archive of scripts but I’m trying to convert everything over to PowerShell. Here’s a working PowerShell snippet that works for recycling IIS7.x application pools. APPPOOLNAME needs to be replaced with the actual name of the application pool and SERVERNAME needs to

IIS, IIS7, Powershell IIS6, IIS7, Powershell