How to create DHCP scopes with PowerShell

Recently I was approached by a network engineer who was adding scopes to DHCP for our move to Detroit. He had around 80 of them to configure, including all of the different options for the subnets. I did a little research and couldn’t find a native snapin for PowerShell to handle creating the scopes and setting [...]

PowerShell Script for Remote Event Log Viewing

Either way, I needed to check all of my event logs for EventID 11 and 15. [...]

Powershell 2.0 CTP – Remoting – PowerShell Remove WDS

So, with PowerShell 2.0 CTP’s arrival, and me finally having some time to mess around with some of the new features, here’s my previous (and first popular) post re-hashed for PowerShell 2.0 CTP. This will only work on machines with WS-Management installed, so it probably won’t work on most of your machines (unless you’ve deployed it), but [...]

WSUS/WDS Debacle

I don’t understand the big issue with the accidental release of WDS (Windows Desktop Search) via WSUS (here). It wasn’t like MS said “Muhuhahaha, let’s release WDS  to the masses via WSUS!” I mean…why? There’s no compelling reason for this besides a simple mistake. Now, the fact that the mistake was made is a little scary. I don’t [...]