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The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been extended with the inclusion of chapter 11 – Creating Domain Controllers. www.manning.com/siddaway3 Enjoy Read More...

One of the things that makes PowerShell easy to learn is discoverability. Want to know more about a particular type of object? Pipe it to Get-Member. Or if you want to see values pipe it to Select-Object. [crayon-519fb007424b3/] That’s not too bad...

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here, but I’ve had a lot going on and hardly any time to write. Here are some of the things that I’ve been up to. Shaker|LaunchHouse This is a startup accelerator/co-working place in the...

Summary : Scripting Games Advanced Event 5: Dr. Scripto needs to create a tool to find client IP addresses from a bunch of IIS logs. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today is the release of Event 5 for the 2013 Scripting Games. Remember that...

Summary : Find the Windows PowerShell format data files that are used in your current Windows PowerShell session. How can I find the format data files that are being used in my current Windows PowerShell session? Use the Get-FormatData cmdlet in Windows...

Grading the scripts in Event 4 and the one thing that jumps out is the amount of unnecessary data being carried through the scripts You were asked for 7 properties off 20 random users Get-ADUser has a –properties parameter. USE it to restrict the properties...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about dealing with Windows PowerShell hash tables that contain keywords. Dude! Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem in that I want to create a hash table from an array. This is easy enough to do, but...