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Disable IP Binding for the HP System Management Homepage

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Category: Powershell

Written by Winfred de Kreij

If IP binding is enabled for HP System Management Homepage (which is used to manage HP Proliant Servers), it can by default only be accessed from the server itself, because it binds to 127.0.0.1. In order to disable this, I've written a PowerShell function that can disable IP binding remotely and for multiple servers. It uses xmlobjects and get-service.

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PowerShell Disable Overrides in SCOM

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Category: Powershell

Written by Winfred de Kreij

Example on how to enable or disable overrides in SCOM.

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Multiple simultaneous defrag jobs with PowerShell

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Category: Powershell

Written by Winfred de Kreij

There is some code out there that shows how to do defrag hard disks using WMI. Basically:

[string]$query = 'Select * from Win32_Volume where DriveType = 3'
$volumes = Get-WmiObject -Query $query -ComputerName $ComputerName
$result = ($volume.Defrag($force)).ReturnValue

Of course, this can take quite some time when running this against a list of servers, since .Defrag() does not start on the second computer, until it completed the first. You can avoid this (assuming you have PowerShell 2), by using start job:

start-job -Name $ComputerName `
    -initializationScript {ipmo defrag} `
    -scriptblock {Param ($ComputerName) Start-CustomDefrag $ComputerName} `
    -ArgumentList $ComputerName

Full code after the break.

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Wikipedia Image Scraper

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Category: Powershell

Written by Winfred de Kreij

 
$LocalFolderToSaveTo = "C:\DownloadLocation"
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("D:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\test\dotnetwikibot\DotNetWikiBot.dll")
$EnWiki = new-object DotNetWikiBot.Site("http://en.wikipedia.org", "WikipediaUserName", "WikipediaPassword") 
$PageList = new-object DotNetWikiBot.PageList($enWiki);
$PageList.FillFromCategory("Featured pictures")
$ImageExts = ".jpg", ".png", ".jpeg"
Foreach($Page in $PageList.pages)
{
 if(($ImageExts -eq $Page.Title.substring($Page.Title.length - 4, 4)) -and (!($Page.Title.startswith("File talk"))) )
 {
 $DownloadTo = $Null
 $RenamedPage = $Page.Title.replace("File:", "")
 $RenamedPage = $RenamedPage.replace("`"", "") # "
 $RenamedPage = $RenamedPage.replace("`'", "")
 $DownloadTo = join-path $LocalFolderToSaveTo ($RenamedPage)
 $page.DownloadImage($DownloadTo)
 Start-Sleep 1 #Build in delay to prevent hammering and/or Ban. 
 }
}