I let my curiosity get the better of me, and I put together a PowerShell function for the purpose of creating music using PowerShell’s built-in console beep feature. And, in the very essence of internet meme culture, I present to you my triumph—a PowerShell function that unleashes the timeless anthem of Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna…
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PowerShell- UltimateOCD Update + Demo
For the gentleman requesting assistance with my UltimateOCD script, I have revised it further to allow you to easily provide some parameters like the target directory, directory exclusions, and a custom temporary directory path. In addition, I have revised the logic to use the “product” & “x.x.x” (version number) directories to detect Oracle client instances….
Preliminary Batch Job Version – Ultimate Oracle Client Deinstaller
This is for the gentleman that kindly requested a modification of my UltimateOCD script to allow for batch deployment. Please note that this preliminary example is untested. I will be testing and revising in the days to come, but this may get you on the right track with some testing of your own. In the…
PowerShell – Update to Ultimate Oracle Deinstaller
A few months back, I had built what I dubbed the “Ultimate Oracle Client Deinstaller.” It could handle the deinstallation of Oracle database clients 11g, 12c, and 19c to include having multiple clients installed- even if they share the same Oracle_Home location. Recently, I ran into some alternate configurations of the Oracle client that required…
PowerShell – Add + Trust PsGallery & NuGet
If you do a lot of PowerShell work, you may find yourself frequently using NuGet or PsGallery. I’ve put a couple functions together that quickly add the PsGallery repository and NuGet respectively, and add trust to these sources. These functions were built to be modular so they could be modified for other sources as well….
PowerShell – Add Hosts to AD Group
Here’s another simple script I put together. It allows you to specify a Security Group in Active Directory, and add a list of hosts to this group. Simple, but yet another tool that every SysAdmin should have in their repository.
PowerShell – Get OS By Device Name
Here’s a basic script I put together to generate a .CSV report of the operating system for a given list of device names. A handy tool for any sysadmin to add to their repository.
PowerShell – Get Affiliated Devices by User
The Configuration Manager PowerShell module contains the Get-CMUserDeviceAffinity cmdlet to allow one to use an AD user object to search for devices that the user is the Primary User for. I’ve written a script which first runs an LDAP query to derive the AD user objects from a list in First Name + Last Name…
PowerShell – CM Uninstall Collections + Deployments Tool
To maintain a healthy environment, providing capability for other supporting teams to remove applications using CM may be desirable. One way this might be arranged is to provide the ability to place devices in predetermined uninstall collections that already have required uninstall deployments for their corresponding application. In this scenario, it would be desirable for…
PowerShell – Save Updates And Import to WSUS
Since Internet Explorer has now been deprecated, there is a need to import updates to WSUS natively without the installation of additional browsers. I’ve found that some of the functionality can be accomplished with Microsoft MVP Chrissy Lemaire’s “KBUpdate” PowerShell module, but it merely facilitated the process by downloading the update, and thus, I did…