Powershell

Unable to use grep to search logfiles output from Powershell scripts

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I recently had to do some PowerShell work on a Windows server which outputted some log files for later review using the “Start-Transcript” function. Later I went to review the logs looking for some specific information. I transferred them to my CentOS 5 Dev system to begin analyzing them with grep. Every time I ran … Read more

Powershell script to report on total send/received e-mails in Exchange

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  Update: 2017-08-16 – I have published a new version of this script here   This is a simple PowerShell script that pulls all of the send/received e-mails from the Message Tracking log in Exchange 2010 and counts the unique header IDs. It’s fairly accurate but I don’t think it’s 100% bang on. My testing … Read more

Powershell script to create reverse lookups (PTR) in Microsoft DNS

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We’re switching IP spaces at work and need to create a large amount of reverse lookup PTR records for our PAT/NAT pools. Microsoft only allows you to manually create one DNS entry at a time via the GUI so I wrote a simple Powershell script that lets you mass create sequential PTR records.   #################################### … Read more