9/28/2017: Just a quicky today: A couple of quick bits I keep in my profile, and routinely leverage for server maintenance. Run ping-RDP.ps1, it will prompt you for a target server, and then run a looping port-test (1sec interval), until it detects the RDP port 3389 is up on the target box. At that point it launches an RDP session (mstsc.exe /v:$($tsrvr). Pretty simple, but handy when you're doing concurrent maintenance across multiple boxes. 
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Powershell server RDP ping availability script
9/28/2017: Just a quicky today: A couple of quick bits I keep in my profile, and routinely leverage for server maintenance. Run ping-RDP.ps1, it will prompt you for a target server, and then run a looping port-test (1sec interval), until it detects the RDP port 3389 is up on the target box. At that point it launches an RDP session (mstsc.exe /v:$($tsrvr). Pretty simple, but handy when you're doing concurrent maintenance across multiple boxes. 
Friday, September 22, 2017
Exchange Hub Top Queued Domains (Powershell Snippets)
9/22/2017: Here's a couple of quick code snippets for Exchange Server: I use this when I see external delivery domains piling up (in my running get-HtQueuesMonitor.ps1) , to quickly pull out the details on the problem child external domains.
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