Shaun on IT

Back to Basics: Newton-Raphson Method in Powershell

2011-10-06T13:30:44Z

Back to Basics: Successive Approximation in Powershell

2011-10-04T13:30:43Z

Back to Basics: Recursion

2011-10-02T13:30:33Z

Back to Basics: Brute Force in Powershell

2011-09-29T13:30:57Z

Back to Basics: Exhaustive Enumeration in Powershell

2011-09-27T13:30:11Z

Mac OS X Lion Gripes and Workarounds

2011-07-26T03:27:04Z

Go buy a Solid State Drive (SSD) right now

2011-07-09T23:01:41Z

Reading the LastWriteTime of a registry key using Powershell

2011-07-04T15:40:10Z

Generating a system list from Active Directory

2010-04-16T17:13:56Z

Having a large number of workstations or servers within an enterprise brings a host of challenges in trying to maintain them. We are constantly having to reach out and perform an action on a set of boxes. Relying on your own or someone else's outdated system list is not an option. A quick and easy fix is to go straight to the source. Dsquery is a command-line too that allows us to query Active Directory based on criteria we feed into it. Today we are going to focus on one common criteria used, dsquery computer, which finds computers in the directory that matches our search patterns.

DNS Benchmark. And the winner is....

2009-12-21T04:33:21Z

When was the last time you thought about how fast your DNS queries were occurring? I will be the first to tell you that it hadn't crossed my mind in a while, but after Google recently announced a public DNS service I was curious to see how it stacked up against my current provider, Comcast. I must admit I almost changed my DNS settings blindly and was glad I didn't after running a few benchmarks.