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Gather (and Diagram) Installed Roles and Features With Powershell

2013-12-18 1 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Use this powershell script to gather installed features and roles from remote systems. This uses two wmi classes in an attempt to gather as much information as possible. Win32_ServerFeature will contain roles and their dependencies on systems running Windows 2008 and above. For these systems we can use this hierarchy to also produce pretty diagrams using graphviz and techniques I’ve exhibited in some of my other scripts (I added this last part in cause it is easy to do, not really certain how useful it is other than maybe exploring the dependencies between windows roles/features).

Google Charts: Interactive Visualization with Powershell

2013-12-17 4 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

In this script I use powershell to gather system volume information which is then converted into a javascript array. This array is fed into the google charts to create a semi-attractive visualization of server disk space utilization in a single html report. Although this approach is a bit unconventional the results are both fun and useful.

Lync 2013: Monitoring Mirrored SQL Databases With PowerShell

2013-11-25 3 min read Lync Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

In Lync 2013 you are given a powerful new backend redundancy option for your important databases in the form of SQL mirroring. In this article I’ll discuss which services are able to be mirrored, the databases they encompass, and provide a PowerShell script to generate a report on the database mirror status. I also threw in Lync CMS replication and service status sections because it is the civil thing to do…

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