Using PowerShell – Add user or group to local Administrators group in Windows + Create SQL Server Login

I cannot imagine a life without PowerShell now. You would agreee after you find out why. This is what I had to do today. The very real problem: I have a list of about 30 servers. I need to add an AD group name to the local adminstrators group on all 30 servers Create a …

PowerShell – Test-SQLTableExists – Check to see if SQL Server table exists

  I wrote something real quick to check if a SQL Server table/view exists and return a True/False. This would come in handy if you wanted to check for table existence before querying or creating a new one. Also, this is my first post I am trying to post with Live Writer.

Wait & Notify via email When A Process Completes – Using PowerShell

A colleague of mine was copying a large file over the network using "RoboCopy". As a good citizen, he throttled the copy using the "/IPG" switch of RoboCopy. For information sake, /ipg:n Specifies the inter-packet gap to free bandwidth on slow lines. After starting the copy he informed me that it would complete in around …