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PowerShell Workflow Bug

There is bug with workflows in PowerShell v3 that you might run into. I kept banging into it until I tracked it down. The problem occurs if you try to run a workflow from a PSDrive that you have added. … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2012 8:39 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Powershell 3.0, Workflow

Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

I got this announcement the other day for a Halloween webinar and the title is just too cool not to share: “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Protecting Both Your Brains and Your Data.” I hope it goes without saying that data … Continue reading →...

Published Sat, Oct 27 2012 12:16 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Backup, Hyper-V, Data

Variable Validation

In PowerShell v3 there is a new feature you might not be aware of that could save you pain and headaches. This is something you could use in scripting as well as the console. In fact, I think using it … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 8:30 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, v3, Powershell 3.0, Validation

Capture the Moment

I’m very excited that the PowerShell books I’ve been working on this year will finally begin hitting the shelves, and hopefully your desk, over next month or two. I’ve you’ve been locked in the datacenter and have no idea what...

Published Mon, Oct 15 2012 7:06 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Manning, Books

Friday Fun – Test PowerShell Command Name

Earlier this week I exchanged a few tweets with @jonhtyler about coming up with a proper name for a PowerShell function he was developing. The suggested best practice is to use the Verb-Noun naming convention, using an accepted verb. You … Continue...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2012 7:19 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Get-Verb

Hyper-V VHD Summary

When I made the move to Windows 8, one of my tasks was to migrate my test environment from VirtualBox to Hyper-V. Windows 8 includes a client Hyper-V feature that is easy to use and includes PowerShell support. Plus I … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2012 10:37 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Hyper-V, VHD, Virtualization

PowerShell Version Profile Tips

Now that PowerShell v3 is finally and officially with us, I’m trusting that many of you are embracing it. I’ve made the jump, although I have had to make some minor adjustments. If you are going to live entirely in … Continue reading...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 9:31 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Profile, psversiontable

Friday Fun: Save All Open PowerShell ISE Files

Here’s a little tidbit that I previously shared on Twitter and Google Plus. The PowerShell ISE obviously has a Save menu choice. But there’s no menu option to save all open files. But you can add one yourself. All of … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Aug 03 2012 9:30 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell ISE, ISE

Counting Users by OU with PowerShell

I’ve been following a discussion thread in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com. The post is about counting the number of users in an OU. Well that sounds like fun. We got him started using the Quest AD cmdlets. I thought … Continue...

Published Fri, Aug 03 2012 8:12 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Active Directory, Get-QADUser, Quest Software, Get-ADUser, ActiveD

Event Log Morning Report

The Morning Report script I published earlier this yeas was quite popular. One of the changes I made in it was to skip getting event log entries to speed up the overall process. But I received an inquiry today about … Continue reading → Read...

Published Wed, Aug 01 2012 9:05 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, HTML, Reporting, eventlog

Get Total Number of Week Days

Recently I was asked about a way to calculate the number of week days between two dates. It is simple enough to get the total days by subtracting two dates and then using the resulting TimeSpan object. But what if … Continue reading → Read...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 1:38 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Get-Date

Friday Fun PowerShell Crypto

I’m a big fan of codes, ciphers and secret messages. I obviously am a big PowerShell fan as well. So why not mash these things together? Today’s Friday Fun is a PowerShell module I call PSCode. The module contains a … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2012 9:35 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, strings, join

Fun with PSDrive Locations

A PowerShell PSDrive is a mapping between a PowerShell provider and a resource. The majority of our work is done in a file system PSDrive that corresponds to a file system drive. Let me show you a little trick that … Continue reading → Read...

Published Tue, Jul 10 2012 8:18 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Profile, PSDrive

PowerShell Pivot Tables

I was working on a question in the Ask Don and Jeff forum about multidimensional arrays. The ultimate goal of sorts was to create an HTML report that contained in essence a pivot table. This device allows you to slice … Continue reading →...

Published Thu, Jul 05 2012 1:01 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, Group-Object

Friday Fun: Expand Environmental Variables in PowerShell Strings

This week I was working on a project that involved using the %PATH% environmental variable. The challenge was that I have some entries that look like this: %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\. When I try to use that path in PowerShell, it complains...

Published Fri, Jun 29 2012 7:54 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, CommandLine, regex, Scriptiing, env

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