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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 Date: 06/22/2009
Hyper-V Virtual Identification
Since virtual machines can be easily moved between physical hosts (parents), it becomes important to...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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....
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 Date: 03/01/2007
WS-Man Ping Test
WS-Man (Windows Remote Management) is a new protocol and framework first delivered in Windows 2003...
Author: OttoHelweg2 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...
Author: OttoHelweg2 Date: 02/09/2007