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 Microsoft...

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 to...

Write to the Event Log with Powershell Writing to the Event Log is one of my preffered methods of logging in Powershell or .NET. Luckily Powershell makes it pretty easy. You can quickly add Powershell Event Logging to your scripts using this snippet.

Powershell One Liner to do a Quick IIS App Pool Recycle As I mentioned on a previous post, doing an IIS Reset is the worse thing you can do to an IIS Environment. 99% of the time you just need to tear down the AppDomain and load a new one. Performing an IIS Reset does that...