Found myself in a situation I needed to search 20+ documents for a keyword and unfortunately Word cannot search files within a directory for keywords, only the current document. Thankfully we can automate this with PowerShell. The script below will: Accept a directory path and keyword Open each file found and search for the keyword […]
Category Archives: Powershell
Finding pwned emails with HIBP and Powershell
This small project uses Troy Hunts’ Have I Been Pwned fantastic (API) service along side a PS module which parses the JSON from the API. The purpose of this script is to read in emails addresses from file and then check them against HIBP to see if they are apart of any breaches or public […]
Minecraft Random MOTD Selector
A fun micro-project, this Powershell script will select a random message of the day (MOTD) and write it to disk.
Finding users in AD and adding to distribution group
I had a scenario in which a group of users needed to be added to a distribution group hosted on Exchange online. So I thought Id made a little script which pulls users from the local Active Directory; checks them against the distribution group and if they are not present, adds them. You may want […]
Minecraft Server Process Monitoring – PowerShell
About The script was created to monitor a Minecraft server process on the host server (in this case Windows 2016). I also wanted the script to be capable of logging when the server started and stopped (intentionally or not). The script checks every 5 seconds to see whether Java is running, in the case Java […]
Automating Log File Archiving – PowerShell
The purpose of this PowerShell script was to automate the cleaning of logs files by zipping them and shipping them to another folder or drive, but to also give the option to delete the source files after being processed. The script has the option to group the files by the day they were written or […]