Recently, I was asked to help automate a friend's super boring daily duty of logging repetitive activities to a SharePoint Task list. Even though I'm no longer regularly working with SharePoint (yay!), I accepted the challenge.

Below is the script I created, which can be scheduled (and mixed up, even using $a = …

In my previous post, I outlined how to use PowerShell v2 to keep a CookieJar and POST to a Web Form that Prohibits XSS. The code was 35 lines long. Upon seeing my post, Lee Holmes suggested using PowerShell v3's Invoke-WebRequest instead to get my code down to 1/5th of its original size.

I'm astounded at how easy …

I recently had a project that required I log into a site and submit a form. Initially, I had a Start-Process that launched iexplore but then I decided it would be best to..

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Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware Site Recovery manager script.

This script generates the SSL certificates based off of the WebServer Certificate Template and runs a batch file to perform the actual replacement. …

Next in the series of replacing vSphere related SSL scripts is the VMware View Composer script. This one is rather simple, and uses certutil and certreq to generate the certificates, as opposed to OpenSSL.

It also generates a batch script which calls SviConfig.exe. You just gotta put in a few variables, run the script …

Replacing ESX SSL is the easiest of all the vSphere components, in my opinion. Unlike vSphere 5.1, you can use Microsoft's Web Server SSL template, and there's no need to use the Java keytool or reregister the service with SSO.

Below is a script I use in conjunction with my vSphere/PowerShell Replace SSL script.

This …