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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…

Gather Remote Event Logs With Powershell

2013-10-16 1 min read Powershell Security System Administration Zachary Loeber

About Gather the remote event log information for one or more systems using wmi, alternate credentials, and multiple runspaces. Function supports custom timeout parameters in case of wmi problems and returns Event Log information for the specified number of past hours. You can view verbose information on each runspace thread in realtime with the -Verbose option. Version History 1.0.0 – 10/16/2013 Initial release Notes By default 24 hours is what we filter against for the results. Continue reading

Retrieve Remote Scheduled Task Information With Powershell

2013-10-06 2 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

This function uses multiple runspaces with along with COM objects to gather information about the scheduled tasks of remote systems. Getting this to work with alternate credentials may be possible but I wasn’t able to discern a usable method to make it happen so I resorted to PSremoting. What this means is that this script will work against multiple remote systems which do not have psremoting enabled as long as you are running the script with an account that has administrative rights to them. If you do pass a credential to the function then psremoting will be used instead. You can also force psremoting to be used if you are using that across the board in your environment.

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