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Friday Fun: Start-TypedDemo v2

Not too long ago I posted a function I wrote for doing PowerShell demonstrations. My goal was to simulate a live interactive demo but without the typing so I could focus on explaining and not typing. The first version was … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, May 27 2011 8:28 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, Training, PowerShell v2.0, Write-Host, Friday Fun, ScriptBlock, Professional

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 Add A Print Menu to the PowerShell ISE

I spend a fair amount of time in the PowerShell ISE. One task that I find myself needing, especially lately, is the ability to print a script file. I’m sure you noticed there is no Print menu choice. So I … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2011 9:07 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Friday Fun, FridayFun, PowerShell ISE

TechEd Atlanta – Managing the Registry with PowerShell

My second TechEd talk was about managing the registry with Windows PowerShell. If you were in the session you know that I stressed heavily using the PowerShell provider and cmdlets. For remote computers, leverage PowerShell’s remoting infrastructure...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 9:01 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Registry, Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Conferences, TechEd, Regsitry

Turning CLI Tools into PowerShell Tools Deep Dive Demos

Last week I did a presentation at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt about turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. A video recording should be posted later. But in the meantime, here is a copy of my slide deck, … Continue reading →...

Published Mon, Oct 24 2011 10:07 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, DeepDive, Conferences, CommandLine

Finding Files in the Path – A Pipeline Perk

I’ve been chipping in on a forum post about finding if a given file exists in any folder within the system environmental %PATH% variable using Windows PowerShell. There are several ways you might approach this. But the best way in …... [[...

Published Thu, Nov 17 2011 9:11 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Pipeline, filtering, Test-Path, Join-Path

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

Create HTML Bar Charts from PowerShell

I saw a very nice mention on Twitter today where someone had taken an idea of mine and created something practical and in production. It is always nice to hear. The inspiring article was something I worked up that showed … Continue reading →...

Published Thu, Feb 16 2012 11:54 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, ConvertTo-HTML, HTML

Get Shared Resource

I was poking around WMI the other day in PowerShell and was intrigued by the Win32_Share class. This is a great way to find out what items are shared on a server such as printers and folders, although it’s not … Continue reading → Read...

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:10 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Get-WMIObject

Using Types with Imported CSV Data in PowerShell

The Import-CSV cmdlet in PowerShell is incredibly useful. You can take any CSV file and pump objects to the pipeline. The cmdlet uses the CSV header as properties for the custom object. PS S:\> import-csv .\testdata.csv Date : 1/18/2012...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 8:21 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Where-Object, objects, Import-CSV, Sort

Embrace and Extend the PowerShell ISE

I did a presentation today for the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of SQLPass. The recording will be posted later and I’ll update this when I have the link. But in the meantime, as promised, I wanted to make available my slide … Continue reading...

Published Wed, Feb 15 2012 1:07 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell ISE, ISE, AddOns

Export and Import Hash Tables

I use hash tables quite a bit and with the impending arrival of PowerShell 3.0 I expect even more so. PowerShell v3 allows you to define a hash table of default parameter values. I’m not going to to cover that … Continue reading → Read...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 9:25 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, hashtable, CSV, export, import

Friday Fun: A PowerShell Alarm Clock

Today’s Friday Fun is a continuation of my exploration of ways to use Start-Job. A few weeks ago I wrote about using Start-Job to create “scheduled” tasks. I realized I could take this further and turn this into a sort … Continue...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 8:28 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, FridayFun, Jobs, Start-Job

Friday Fun – A Christmas Prompt

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Published Fri, Nov 25 2011 8:00 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, FridayFun, prompt

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

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