powershell

How to Run Random Videos in MixItUp

Date: 03 December 2021

Mix It Up is a wonderful tool for streamers. It can be used as a basic chat bot but it also gives one a lot of power for throwing stuff up on an overlay. One of it’s weaknesses, however, is that it can’t tell how long a video is which makes it hard to randomly play one video after another. This little hack makes it a little easier. It’s pretty common to want to play a random video.

How to Run Mix It Up Commands from Touch Portal and UP Deck

Date: 15 May 2020

Mix It Up app is a fantastic tool for making streaming easier. It gives you powerful tools for chat, overlays, Twitch Channel Points and more. What it doesn’t have is a remote client that allows one to run commands from a phone or tablet. This is how I was able to combine MIU with Up Deck and Touch Portal to get the best of both worlds.

Use Powershell to Play Random MP3s

Date: 27 November 2019

I’ve been playing with tools to help make my game streams easier. One of the things that I wanted to do was to play random MP3 from a directory. Here’s a little Powershell to get it done.

SCCM Updates and Powershell

Date: 12 October 2015

Microsoft is doing cool things with Windows Server with what was originally server core and is now the base version of Windows Server. Combined with Powershell remoting and there’s a lot of power from the command line. Unfortunately, is surprisingly difficult to tell if updates are available and to trigger their installation. If you’re not using SCCM, you can run sconfig.exe and select option 6 to manage your updates but packages and applications pushed through SCCM don’t show up there.

Finding Old Computer Accounts in Active Directory with Powershell

Date: 20 June 2011

Following up on a previous post discussing finding old user accounts in Active Directory, here’s how you find old computer accounts. This works on basically the same premise as the user script. In short, we’re going to check the last time the computer logged into Active Directory. That happens on every reboot and from time to time while the machine is up. The same warning applies to computers as it does for user accounts.

Finding Old Disabled Users in Active Directory with Powershell

Date: 10 February 2011

I’ve been putting off dealing with a problem at work for a while and I finally worked out a way to deal with it. At work, when a faculty or staff member leaves, we don’t delete the account right away. Instead, the account is disabled. It’s sort of a CYA policy. It came in useful today, in fact, when I was told that the professor whose account I disabled a couple of days ago was actually granted emeritus status and so his account needed to hang around a while more.

Chasing the "tail"

Date: 01 December 2010

While trying to get System Center Configuration Manager to install a package on a new server, I rediscovered why I hate working in Windows and why I like PowerShell. I wanted to check the end of a series of log files to see what was going on. Unfortunately, Windows has no obvious analog to the unix tail command. Fortunately, my friend Jon Angliss had most of a solution. Get-Content <filename> -wait That’s close to what I want but not quite.