PowerShell v2 Gather remote software inventory

I was recently asked to gather information on every Adobe product installed on 576 Windows servers. I thought this would be no problem, because I could use Get-WmiObject with the Win32_Product Class and go home early. Alas, it was not to be: Per the WMI blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/default.aspx), Windows Server 2003 doesn’t have the Win32_Product Class […]

PowerShell Find Date of a previous day in any week

I often need to name a file with a date as part of the file name like: ServerInventory12-18-2009.csv A simple $date = $(get-date).ToString(“MM-dd-yyyy”) works great for today, but I recently had a need to create a file once a week, with a file name of the previous Saturday. I had come across Arul Kumaravel’s WebLog […]

PowerShell Export-Csv with no header

I’m working on a project that provides billing information on 1 specific service – Lyris ListManager messages sent by company (Or in ListManager parlance, site) I had all the data, and exported it to a csv as that was the format that we agreed to provide to the billing people. Life was good for about […]

PowerShell Server Inventory Script

I was asked for my Server Inventory script on the newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell. This is my script, in a slightly compressed and sanitized version – Compressed as I stripped out Novell, Unix, and ESX Host logic, sanitized in that I don’t really have a domain contoso.com 😉 After the script, if you stick around, I will […]

Retrieve a list of stale Active-Sync devices

We allow users who have signed the proper policy to access their Exchange mailbox via Active Sync devices. Users being users, though, we quite often have active sync devices that are registered to a mailbox, but are no longer in use. Users always have a clever excuse like “Oh, i lost that last year”, or […]