Remote administration examples

I'm going to be putting on a PSH demo for a local .NET user group (and
maybe university students). As far as remote administration with PSH,
I want to show some code for some cool examples to get their
attention.

Obviously, the examples will be WMI (get-wmiobject) and ADSI based
(I'll likely use the Quest AD cmdlets). Anyone have any other
interesting examples/suggestions?

I could use some .NET remoting to perhaps start a remote process for
example. Also to view a remote event log...

Examples with WMI: get remote cpu usage, get remote patches installed,
get a listing of the usage of RAM (list slots and ones used/not used), etc.

Anyone have some cool ideas/things I can demo?

Marco


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I would also show them WMI Explorer... that is super cool
http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/po...er-part-1.aspx

I used .NET and WMI for my Backup-EventLog if you want to show the
difference between .NET and WMI
http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=41

Also... a common request is get installed apps
Get-InstalledApps from http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?page_id=22
would be cool (bottom)

"Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
news:up0mJ%23qAIHA.5980@xxxxxx

On Sep 29, 1:04 pm, "Brandon Shell" <tshell.m...@xxxxxx> wrote: Working in a higher ed evnoirnment the ability to (usually) find the
servicetag/serial number, manufacturer, and model of computer has help
me out quite a bit when troublshooting pc's remotely since we usually
have a set number of models on campus.

computersystemproduct, computersystem classes in wmi

just a thought.

-J
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"pooradmin" wrote:

For AD cmdlets:

Bulk operations are always a pretty cool thing to show:

* The classic one I am using all the time is taking users based on the
Company, Department, or City (Get-QADUser -Company/-Department/-City) and
adding
them to a group based on that critirea (piping it into Add-QAGroupMember).

* Provisioning user accounts from a CSV file.

* Showing one-liner replacement for existing AD tools
(http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/...th-powershell/),
and locating obsolete computer records
(http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/...records-in-ad/)

* Moving accounts between OUs (e.g. all disabled accounts):
http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/...ng-ad-objects/

If you have Windows 2008 in your lab you can demo fine-grained password
policies
(http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/...th-powershell/)
or even work with read-only domain controller and server core (the latter can
be done ONLY remotely so it makes for a pretty cool demo.)

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"Marco Shaw" wrote: