Moving my blog

I decided to give a try to Jekyll and moved my blog to Github Pages.

Here is the new link: https://lazywinadmin.github.io/

You can subscribe to my RSS feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/lazywinadmin

See you there ! 😉

and that was 2014…

We just started 2015 so I figured it was the time to look back at what I did in the past 12 months.

I have some of stats which may be of interest, but of course also on a more personal level 2014 was an Awesome year !!


Achievements and Projects

• Became a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell !! What an achievement!! And had the chance to attend my first Summit in November where I got to meet tons of other MVPs.
• Received the PowerShell Heroes 2014 recognition from PowerShell.org with 4 other people
• Joined Warner Brother Games studio in Montreal as a Senior System Administrator. My role is mostly focused on Automation and Microsoft Products
• Created the PowerShell Module NetBackupPS, which basically parse the output of the Symantec NetBackup cmd line tools. Unfortunately I don't have access to this solution so I can't really continue the development but the code in on GitHub and anybody is welcome to contribute.
• Created the PowerShell Module WinFormPS, which allows you to interact with some Winform controls.
• Created the PowerShell Module AdsiPS, which allows you to interact with Active Directory. Microsoft AD Module and Quest AD Snapin are really awesome but I wanted to develop my knowledge with Active Directory and play around with .NET Framework/LDAP Queries.
• Presented my first presentation on "How to get started with PowerShell" at my work office

Stats for my blog lazywinadmin.com for 2014:

• 39 Blog Posts
• +450 000 pageviews
• Top5 2014 blog posts:
• PowerShell - LazyTS
• PowerShell - Parse this: NetStat.exe
• PowerShell - Playing with the new OneGet module (v5 preview)
• PowerShell - Playing with the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet
• PowerShell - ConvertFrom-String and the TemplateFile parameter

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LazyWinAdmin v0.4 released

UPDATE 2016/04/26: Lazywinadmin is now open source, see here: https://github.com/lazywinadmin/LazyWinAdmin_GUI

LazyWinAdmin is a PowerShell Script that generates a GUI/WinForms loaded with a tons of tools

The Form was created using Sapien Powershell Studio 2012.

LazyWinAdmin v0.4 - Sneak Peek

Sneak peek : LazyWinAdmin v0.4

LazyWinAdmin is a PowerShell Script
This script generate a GUI/WinForm that was created using Sapien Powershell Studio.

I've been working in LWA for a while now.
This project of mine is mostly to help myself in my day to day Windows System Administrator tasks.

The goal of this tool is to centralize a lot of commands I use everyday inside a GUI and waist less time doing some tasks...
It also taking advantage of a couple of other tools Built-in in Windows: Computer Manager, Services.msc,...
And some non-built-in: Psexec, ADExplorer, SYDI-Server.vbs etc...

"General" tab contain my Top Used tools.

The "Check" button allow you to check the following connectivity item:

Ping (test-connection), Permission (test-path \\Computer\c$), RDP (Test of the port 3389), PsRemoting (PowerShell Remoting Enabled), OS (WMI), Uptime (WMI)

Autocomplete of the ComputerName. 
The script run a Get-Content on a Computers.txt when the form is loading.

New version : LazyWinAdmin 0.3.20120220

LazyWinAdmin was created using ONLY Powershell scripting language
I used SAPIEN PrimalForms to create the GUI.

This tool requires Powershell 2.0 and permissions on local or remote computers to be able to manage those.

 LazyWinAdmin 0.3.20120220

Download

-FIX some problem with Uptime Button
-FIX Modified The Service Query/start/stop
-ADD Restart Service Button
-ADD TextBox with AutoCompletion on some Services i added
-ERROR AutoCompletion in the TEXTBOX of Services seems to make the thing crash :-(
-REMOVE AutoCompletion in Service Tab, in ServiceName TextBox
-ADD Get Local Hosts File (Menu: LocalHost/Hosts File)
-ADD Get Remote Hosts File (in General Tab,need permission on remote c$)
-REMOVE Computers.txt auto-completion, seems buggy :-(
-FIX ENTER-PSSESSION button
-REPLACED some function by button with icons below ComputerName textbox
-MOVED the TEST-PSSESSION button to TOOL tab
-ADD the TEST-PSSESSION inside the ENTER-PSSESSION button. (2 in 1 :)
-MODIFY Inventory button and output (add more info)
-MODIFY IpConfig to use the one from BSonPosh module
-ADD button IPCONFIG, DISK USAGE
 -ADD START COMMANDS in General Tab
-ADD SYDI option (dropdown) to choose DOC or XML format.
-ADD Combobox in TOOLS Tab, and ADD the present tools in combobox
-REMOVE Buttons in TOOLS tab (the ones placed in Combobox)
-FIX the ContextMenuStrip on TextBox SERVERNAME.
-ADD option of type for SYDI (DOC or XML)
-FIX the names of all the variables (for Winforms controls only)
-ADD Qwinsta and Rwinsta to contextmenu of computername textbox
-FIX SYDI (DOC and XML now work) auto-save on Desktop of Current User and Open the folder
-FIX "Installed Applications" show the full names of each application,vendors and versions.
-ADD Connectivity Testing Button (Remote registry, ping, RPC, RDP, WsMan)
-ADD more info to ipconfig button

New Version : LazyWinAdmin 0.3c - 2011/10/02

LazyWinAdmin 0.3c - 2011/10/02

-Fixed/Improved Query/Stop/Start Service buttons
-Add Descriptions in logs RichTextBox for Query/Stop/Start Service buttons
-Changed the button :80 to HTTP
-Add FTP, TELNET, HTTPS buttons

Available on Download Page.

LazyWinAdmin 0.2

New version of LazyWinAdmin 0.2 (see the download section)

Download now

requires:
-PowerShell 2.0 on local machine
-Permissions on remote machines