I’ve traveled to Colorado four to five times since November 2010 (I’ve lost track) and have totaled up close to a full month and a half of time away from home. Two weekends ago Holly traveled with me to Colorado for a short introduction into the fine state. We went horse back riding in Estes Park for 2 hours with some friends and then she flew back. All in all a quick trip for her but PTO is at a premium lately. There has been a death in the family and yet we will soon welcome in another member with my cousin’s upcoming wedding.

Starting May 2nd, I am to move back to my original position of Windows Operations. It has been a year plus that I have been out of that field and I’m frankly nervous about the work load. Next weekend I’ll be traveling back to Omaha to see my sister again for the second time in two weeks, which I’m very excited for. Late May will see a trip to San Francisco for Citrix Summit and Synergy conferences.

I’m optimistic that I’ll be able to work on the yard and finish prepping it for spring and summer. Hopefully this will not be the last update in months yet again. I will attempt to keep updating and will start trying to use my Picasa web album more to highlight the wonderful things I encounter throughout my day to day live. Here’s to anticipative enthusiasm.

##Servers and Services##
$servers = "server0","server1","server2","server3","server4","server5"
$Svc = "service1","service2","service3","service4","service5"
##Functions##
##Stop Service
function stopsvc {
For ($a=1; $a –le 5; $a++){
(gwmi win32_service -ComputerName $servers[$a] |Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc[$a-1]}).StopService()
}}
##Reboot
function reboot {
For ($a=0; $a –le 6; $a++){
$reboot = (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $servers[$a]).InvokeMethod("Win32Shutdown",6)
}}
##Stop Default Website (Server State 4 = Stop, 2 = Running)
function webstop {
$sitename = "default web site"
$iis = [ADSI]"IIS://sbl7webt/W3SVC"
$site = $iis.psbase.children | where { $_.keyType -eq "IIsWebServer" -and $_.ServerComment -eq $siteName}
$site.serverState = 4
$site.setInfo()
}
##Start Service
function startsvc {
For ($a=1; $a –le 5; $a++){
do {(gwmi win32_service -ComputerName $servers[$a] |Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc[$a-1]}).StartService()}
until ((gwmi win32_service -ComputerName $servers[$a] |Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $svc[$a-1]}).Status -eq "Running")
}}
##Start Default Website (Server State 2 = Running)
function webstart {
$sitename = "default web site"
$iis = [ADSI]"IIS://sbl7webt/W3SVC"
$site = $iis.psbase.children | where { $_.keyType -eq "IIsWebServer" -and $_.ServerComment -eq $siteName}
$site.serverState = 2
$site.setInfo()
}
stopsvc
Start-Sleep -Seconds 120
webstop
Start-Sleep -Seconds 30
reboot
Start-Sleep -Seconds 360
startsvc
Start-Sleep -Seconds 120
webstart

Explanation of some of the code. As there is the default website, I put the web server first in the list. I could have easily put it at the last. ($a=1; $a –le 5; $a++) starts at Server1/Service1 as ($a=0; $a –le 6; $a++) starts at the Server0 (aka web server).

$file = Import-Csv r:\Test.csv
foreach ($entry in $file) {
$null = New-DistributionGroup -name $entry.name -SamAccountName $entry.SamAccountName -type Distribution -ManagedBy $entry.owner -OrganizationalUnit $entry.Location
Set-QADGroup -Identity $entry.Name -Description ("Owner: " + $entry.owner)
Add-ADPermission -Identity $entry.Name -User $entry.owner -AccessRights "WriteProperty" -ExtendedRights "Self-Membership" -Properties Member -InheritanceType None
}

The greatest thing about Powershell is the logic just makes sense. In line 3, “-name $entry.name” calls to the CSV column named appropriately name. This corresponds directly to Display Name. SamAccountName corresponds to Pre-Windows 2000 name. The rest are self explanatory. See an example of the CSV below.