Detect VPN Connection State with PowerShell

2018-11-20 PowerShell, Scripts Harry Caskey 1

I wrote this script because I had a need to detect the current state of a VPN connection.  With Windows 10, you can use the “Get-VpnConnection” cmdlet. However, if you are working in an environment where that commandlet is not available you can use a WMI query to determine the VPN Connection State.

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Add Systems to SCCM Collection from Text File

2018-11-01 Current Branch, PowerShell, SCCM, Scripts Harry Caskey 0

This PowerShell command will allow you to add a list of systems to a specified collection in SCCM. Get-Content “C:\system_list_to_add.txt” | ForEach { Write-Output “Adding System: $_”; Add-CMDeviceCollectionDirectMembershipRule -CollectionName “Computer Add Collection” -ResourceID (Get-CMDevice -Name $_).ResourceID }

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Enable Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10

2016-04-06 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), Operating Systems, Registry, Scripts, Windows 10 Harry Caskey 1

If you noticed Microsoft has taken away the default Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10.  This can be quite annoying for it you want to just open one photo that isn’t meant to be stored in a photo library.  I found this trick online and wanted to share it.  If you have gone looking in […]

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Remotely Acquire the Serial Number of a Machine

2012-09-13 Command Prompt, Microsoft, PowerShell, Scripts Harry Caskey 0

Awhile ago I needed to find the Serial Number of a remote machine so I could pull the drivers, traveling to see that machine became very tedious and took time.  So I did some searching and came accross this command that you can run via-command line with either powershell or by remotely connecting to the […]

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Check and Fix SCCM Cache Size

2012-08-03 PowerShell, SCCM, Scripts Harry Caskey 3

I’ve run into issues where an SCCM client will get repaired and the cache size automatically goes back to 5120MB.  This causes a problem if you have applications that you are advertising that are bigger than 5GB. So my solution was to created a PowerShell script that first checks to see what the current cache […]

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