Category Archives: Scripting

Copy files to Remote computers using powershell

Hi SysAdmins

In an earlier post I described – How to copy files to domain member computers or servers using Group Policy Object (GPO).

In this post I will show how to copy files to remote computers or servers using a simple Powershell script and .txt file.

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All you need is:

A txt file that looks like this:

Server1.yourdomain.com
Server2.yourdomain.com
Server3.yourdomain.com
and so on…

You can use IP addresses as well.

And this piece of Powershell code:

[code lang=”powershell”]

$ServerList = Get-Content "C:\ServersList.txt" #Change this to location of servers list
$SourceFileLocation = #For example: D:\FoldertoCopy\ or D:\file.txt
$Destination = #Example: C$\temp

foreach ($_ in $ServerList)
{Copy-Item $SourceFileLocation -Destination \\$_\$Destination -Recurse -PassThru}

[/code]

Save the above code as CopyFilestoservers.ps1, and your servers list as ServersList.txt

You will need Write permissions on the remote machines to run the script successfully.

How to Retrieve a Password of an Application Pool User in IIS 6

Today I needed to set a SPN for a IIS application. I discovered that I lost the password of the user account which I need to configure on the application pool.

Luckily, there is a way to retrieve/decrypt the password if it is configured on an existing Application Pool.

This is done by using a Microsoft tool on the IIS server – adsutil.vbs.

Here are 5 simple steps to do this:

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The Silent Ping Command

The “Silent Ping” Command is a sort of improvement for the well known ping command.

So, why do we need it?

When you reboot a serve or PC remotely, you can never be sure when it was booted again or when it is online again,

Most people use the ping command with the -t parameter to check if a server is online again.

But what if you could know exactly when a server is up again or even simply monitor a server when it goes offline over the night,

Or if a communication error occurs that cause some kind of service outage.

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Create multiple site boundaries in sccm 2007

Hi Again

Recently I was puzzled by a tedious task. I needed to create 300+ site boundaries in SCCM 2007.

Obviously this task should be automated by some kind of a tool. but Microsoft doesn’t give such a tool.

So I searched the internet and found a nice script at this iste.

the script did not work at first so I modified it for my own needs to produce the needed result.

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How to Add Hebrew to Powershell or Command (CMD) Console

Hi SysAdmins

Did you ever ran into a situation where you need to add a foreign language to the powershell or Command console? let’s say for script output purpose.

It seems that the process of adding Non-Latin characters is not widely documented.

In this example I will demonstrate how to add Hebrew writing to Powershell. This will also affect the Command (CMD) console.

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