Basic data manipulation with Pandas

I’ve avoided the Pandas module in this blog as it is normally associated with data science rather than systems admin. However there are times you will have data in a table format, say a CSV file, or you will be grabbing the same data over a period of time and you want to process it.

Writing lists to a file

After creating my list from the previous post I needed to save this to a text file to send back to the person who had requested the information. I just wrote a standard loop over the list but this got me thinking about a better way to do this as it’s a common task. As

Network WMI queries

I have already covered searching AD and running a WMI query on remote computers. It is easy to combine the two for a flexible tool that can run the same query on all computers that meet a certain criteria. To achieve this I wrote the function adwmiquery. It does a lot considering it is only