December 2011 - The Lonely Administrator - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Friday Fun – A PowerShell Console Menu

When working in PowerShell, and especially when scripting, you might want to give the user a choice of actions. For example, you might develop a configuration script that another admin or technician will run. Perhaps one of the steps is … Continue...

Published Fri, Dec 30 2011 9:01 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, console, switch, Read-Host

Thursday Treat – A PowerShell Word Find Game

Now for something completely different but hopefully a little fun. I’m a big fan of word games and puzzles. Tim Bolton has assembled a few PowerShell themed crosswords, which you can find on his blog. I’ve always like word finds … Continue...

Published Thu, Dec 29 2011 1:58 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Miscellaneous, puzzle, cmdlet

Send PowerShell Reports by Mail

Today I came across a post about pinging a list of computers and send the results as a table via Outlook. Brian is a very smart Active Directory guy so I offered some PowerShell suggestions to make his task even … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 29 2011 8:11 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Windows Server, Train Signal, Test-Connection, Ping, Send-MailMessage, mail

Friday Fun – Get Ranked Object

Earlier this week on Google Plus, Hal Rottenberg posted a PowerShell idea he had. His goal was to identify a group of objects that would be statistically significant. For example, given a collection of files, group the files by size … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Dec 23 2011 11:25 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, Pipeline, objects, math

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 2

A few weeks ago I posted about updating multi-valued attributes in Active Directory. Part 1 covered how to accomplish this in PowerShell using ADSI. In Part 2 I’ll show you how to accomplish this using the free Active Directory cmdlets … Continue...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2011 12:46 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Windows Server, Active Directory, Set-QADUser, Get-QADUser, Quest Software, Quest

Friday Fun Is It Today?

I was testing out the PowerShell cmdlets that ship with Backup and Replication from Veeam Software. I was using the cmdlet to return backup jobs and realized I needed a way to only get those objects where the date was … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Dec 16 2011 11:49 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, functons, Compare-Object

Friday Fun Drive Usage Console Graph

I think you’ll like this. Normally, I prefer my PowerShell commands to write objects to the pipeline. But there’s nothing wrong with sending output directly to the console, as long as you know that the output is intended only for … Continue...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 10:37 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Write-Host, console, Get-WMIObject, Group-Object

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 1

Yesterday on Twitter, I got a tweet from @Docsmooth regarding how to update a multivalued property in Active Directory. There are a number of ways to handle this, especially from PowerShell naturally, so I tweeted one way in a series … Continue...

Published Thu, Dec 08 2011 8:38 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Active Directory, ADSI

Background Performance Counters

Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 10:47 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Windows Server, Jobs, Train Signal, Start-Job, PerfMon, Get-Counter

Add WhatIf Support to Your PowerShell Scripts

In one of my recent articles for SMB IT, I included a PowerShell module. In the article I referenced that I included support for -Whatif in one of the functions. I was asked on Twitter to explain what I meant … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 02 2011 9:45 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0

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