PowerShell SnippetRace 23-26/2023

Download time, speed, certificates, scheduled tasks.

Events

Summertime, currently no events planned.

Snippets

Measuring average download time

Since the start of the Community Scripting blog in the devblogs.microsoft.com website, there have been a couple of useful posts on it. This one is about measuring download times of files from Francsco Nabas

Speeeeeeeeddd !

PowerShell is about automating and standardising repetitive tasks. If this happens for hindreds or thousands of objects, speed may be an important issue when designing your code. Read Tyler Muirs post on speed and hot to make your code running faster !

Check all Windows Servers for expiring certificates

Outdated certificates are one of those annoing admin-tasks in every IT-department. Read Wolfgang Summerguts post on getting a lits of expiring certificates by PowerShell.

Scheduled Tasks

Running PowerShell Code from time-to-time required a scheduler. It may be one of this commercial automation engines or very simple – the Windows Scheduled tasks. Read this old, but still valued blog-post from June Blender and Dave Bishop for a step-by-step guide.

Happy July ! R.

Thanks for the picture to Aron Visuals on Unsplash