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Solarwinds' free monitor makes it easy to check the performance and health of a router or firewall.

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 1) FreePing
 2) Engineer's Toolset
 3) Xobni
 4) PuTTY
 5) WMI Monitor
 6) BgInfo
 7) Net-SNMP
 8) IP Address Tracker
 9) DNS Stuff
10) WinDiff Compare

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Windows PowerShell Methods

Windows PowerShell Methods

This section concentrates on pure PowerShell techniques.  I will explain how to take those first few tentative steps on your journey to master PowerShell.  If you review my techniques below, then you will get an idea of the range of PowerShell methods available.  My aim is to help you develop an approach to writing PowerShell cmdlets (scripts), which suits your learning style.

Topics for PowerShell Methods

I have sequenced these PowerShell techniques.  Thus if you are new to PowerShell I suggest that you start by downloading PowerShell from Microsoft's site, then go to item: 2. How to execute basic commands.

1. Download the correct version of PowerShell
2. How to Execute Basic Commands
3. Master PowerShell's Key Commands
   Command and Expression Mode
4. Get-Member Command
5. Out-file
6. Create PowerShell cmdlets
   Use PowerShell's built-in cmdlets
7. Aliases - Types
8. Where Statement: $_.name
9. Loops
10. WMI Techniques
11. Functions - How to Create
    Function - Example Plist
12. Enable Your 'Profile'
13. Set-ExecutionPolicy
14. Remote PowerShell v 2.0
15. Stop-Computer (Shutdown)
16. Registry Edit
17. -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
18. WinRm and WSMan
19. [System.Math] Functions
20. Hashtables

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Contents of My PowerShell Method Pages

Each topic has its own 'how to' instructions and also 'Learning points'.  As a result you will be able to modify my examples to suit your situation.  The only pre-requisite is that you must download the correct version of PowerShell and .Net Framework for your operating system.  Microsoft's site has separate versions of PowerShell for XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista.  In the case of Windows Server 2008, PowerShell is built-in but you need to 'Add Feature'.

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Import users from a spreadsheet.  Just provide a list of the users with their fields in the top row, and save as .csv file.  Then launch this FREE utility and match your fields with AD's attributes, click to import the users.  Optionally, you can provide the name of the OU where the new accounts will be born.

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1. Bulk-import new users into Active Directory.
2. Seek and zap unwanted user accounts.
3. Find inactive computers.

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Other Windows PowerShell Topics

• PowerShell Introduction
• PowerShell on Vista
• PowerShell Dreams
• PowerShell Pure Syntax
• PowerShell Real life tasks
• PowerShell Verbs
• PowerShell Nouns
• PowerShell Tips
• PowerShell Download

See more Microsoft PowerShell tutorials

• PowerShell Tutorials  • Methods  • Cmdlets  • PS Snapin  • Profile.ps1  • Exchange 2007

• Command & Expression Mode  • PowerShell pipeline (|)  • PowerShell 'where'  • PowerShell 'Sort'

If you see an error of any kind, do let me know.  Please report any factual mistakes, grammatical errors or broken links, I will be happy to not only to correct the fault, but also to give you credit.

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