scripting – Vassox

Permanently Enable Number Lock on Windows Via Script

September 9, 2019

Number lock – I prefer it on. In fact, I cannot recall a situation in which I have ever needed to actually turn it…

Windows PowerShell 4.0 Examples – How to fetch data exposed by OData services

August 6, 2019

The Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet sends an HTTP(S) request to a REST-compliant web service. You can use it to consume data exposed by, for example, the…

Windows PowerShell 4.0 Examples – Diagnosing network connectivity

August 6, 2019

The Test-NetConnection cmdlet (available on Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2) displays diagnostic information for a connection. 12#Returns detailed diagnostic information for vassox.com Test-NetConnection…

Windows PowerShell 4.0 Examples – How to Schedule a Job

August 6, 2019

Job scheduling allows you to schedule execution of a PowerShell background job for a later time. First thing you do is create a job…

Bash Scripting: Delete Files of a Certain Age

March 8, 2019

For server maintenance it can be useful to run scheduled jobs to clean up various directories; user generated files and system logs that aren’t…

Installing Phantomjs on Centos 7 / RHEL

February 25, 2019

Phantomjs is a useful tool for crawling / and or replicating web pages. The notable difference here between using curl or wget, is that…