In some environments adding new virtual directories is a daily, if not hourly task. Automating this type of work is what we all prefer. Here’s some Powershell I’ve used recently to script IIS Virtual Directory setup. One thing about this script I like is it takes very little input, just the website name. The script pulls...

Anyone with a Windows 2008 Server over a year old has likely run into this problem. Your C:\ drive slowly runs out of space, when you check where all the space is going you find C:\Windows\WinSxS is using 10 – 20GB. I’m not going to go into what the folder is used for or why...

Here’s an easy way to grap minute by minute CPU Use in a query. This only goes back 4 hours, but can be useful for looking at load on your server.

I recently had a need to develop some Powershell scripts to use Subversion in Powershell. I needed to automate checking out content from Subversion to a server. I decided to use SharpSVN, which is a great .NET client library for Subversion. So it also works well in Powershell. Because I had several places I wanted...