Brandon Carse

Brandon Carse runs an SMB IT consulting business in Santa Barbara, California, which he started after working in Silicon Valley for several years.

Articles by Brandon Carse
Review: ScriptLogic PacketTrap IT
Scriptlogic's PacketTrap IT combines low-level and high-level approaches to network-monitoring, with better-than-average results.
Review: WiSpy DBx 1
Metageek’s WiSpy DBx spectrum analyzer that can help you install, troubleshoot, and optimize your 2.4GHz/5GHz wireless networks.
Review: Dartware InterMapper 5.2
Dartware helps restore some order to the IT universe with its InterMapper network monitoring software.
Review: SolarWinds ipMonitor 1
SolarWinds' ipMonitor provides excellent general-purpose network monitoring, but the next version needs to overcome some flaws.
WMIX 2.0
With WMIX 2.0, you can use a GUI to write custom scripts and queries that access computer information with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Splunk 4.0
Splunk collects and indexes event data so that you can easily search it the next time you’re looking for the cause of a problem.
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May 2013 - The NameTranslate object is useful when you need to translate Active Directory object names between different formats, but it's awkward to use from PowerShell. Here's a PowerShell script that eliminates the awkwardness.

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