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New Instant Reactions In Microsoft Teams

CloudBy David Broussard February 16, 2021

Microsoft has been touting a new set of features to make meetings more interactive. They released one recently that finally…

The Snowpocalypse of 2021

GeneralBy David Broussard February 15, 2021

Figured I would share some photos from the snow in San Antonio. Yes, I know, you northerners see this all…

Episode 25 – Business or Enterprise Licenses

CloudBy David Broussard February 11, 2021

Recently on Episode 25 of The Cloud Whisperers Podcast, my fellow Cloud Whisperer Brian and I talked about what licenses…

February 2021 Fuse Product Roadmap Review

GeneralBy Heather Masters February 8, 2021

Hello! This month we have new major announcements from Microsoft, and several important updates in Plan for Change status. First,…

Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams

CloudBy David Broussard February 8, 2021

Recently my fellow Cloud Whisperer Brian and I sat down and talked about Microsoft’s Power Virtual Agents for Teams. I…

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Using ConfigMgr Compliance to Manage Security Configuration Baselines (Part 3)

infrastructureBy Phil Pritchett February 6, 2021

If you haven’t already done so, below are links to the previous posts in this series to give you a…

Easy IIS log reading with PowerShell

infrastructureBy Chad Simmons February 2, 2021

This is just a bit of PowerShell to make reading and filtering IIS logs quick and easy.

Function Out-GridViewIISLog ($File) { 
   #.Synopsis 
   # Convert IIS log file to CSV and display in a GridView 
   #.LINK 
   # Based on https://stevenaskwith.com/2012/05/22/parse-iis-log-files-with-powershell/ 
   # Performance inspired by http://www.happysysadm.com/2014/10/reading-large-text-files-with-powershell.html 
   ########################################################################################################### 
   $Headers = @((Get-Content -Path $File -ReadCount 4 -TotalCount 4)[3].split(' ') | Where-Object { $_ -ne '#Fields:' });
   Import-Csv -Delimiter ' ' -Header $Headers -Path $File | Where-Object { $_.date -notlike '#*' } | Out-GridView -Title "IIS log: $File";
};
Out-GridViewIISLog -File "C:\InetPub\Logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex$(Get-Date -F 'yyMMdd').log"

Function Out-GridViewIISLog ($File) {

#.Synopsis

# Convert IIS log file to CSV and display in a GridView

#.LINK

# Based on https://stevenaskwith.com/2012/05/22/parse-iis-log-files-with-powershell/

# Performance inspired by http://www.happysysadm.com/2014/10/reading-large-text-files-with-powershell.html

###########################################################################################################

$Headers = @((Get-Content -Path $File -ReadCount 4 -TotalCount 4)[3].split(' ') | Where-Object { $_ -ne '#Fields:' });

Import-Csv -Delimiter ' ' -Header $Headers -Path $File | Where-Object { $_.date -notlike '#*' } | Out-GridView -Title "IIS log: $File";

};

Out-GridViewIISLog -File "C:\InetPub\Logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex$(Get-Date -F 'yyMMdd').log"

Get the…