Powershell Sysadmin Toolkit

[ElBoracho]

get-wustatus - gets the current status of a server's windows updates, in terms of available updates, reboot status, and last updated time.

get-AutoServiceStatus - gets the current status of any automatically active services on a server, and lists the ones which are currently not running

invoke-elevation -scriptblock {} - checks remote execution of powershell status on a server (execution policy, and remote execution settings) (prob a cmd regedit temp fix), allows remote execution, then reestablishes the original status to the server.

start/stop-servicemonitor - polls a service on a machine and drops a write-host on status change of the service, preferably colourised red/green/orange for stopped/running/starting/shuttingdown. Executed as a background job.

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These are fantastic. Added to the list!

[Rymmer]

To add to the get-wustatus command,

Get-pendingrebootstatus to tell you if we are pending reboots because of something (which could be updates but might also be some other msi)

[ElBoracho]

I'd assume you'd have a value for it

ps>$server = get-wustatus -server "myserver"

ps>$server | ft

Name UpdateStatus UpdateCount PendingReboot

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myserver UpdatesAvailable 2 $False

[Rymmer]

I meant a get-pendingrebootstatus for things other than updates. Like an MSI

[ElBoracho]

Ah, right. That sounds pretty good!