Last week I presented a number of sessions at TechDays in beautiful San Francisco. Met some great people and had a great time. I presented 4 talks, almost all of them PowerShell-related. Actually, they all had some type of PowerShell content. I’m...
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at TechDays San Francisco this year. The event runs May 2nd and 3rd. You can find the schedule here. Registration will be forthcoming. Seating will be limited so you won’t want to...
AD Management in a month of lunches is today’s deal of the day from Manning – www.manning.com The get 50% off today using code dotd0227cc. The offer is good for today only The same code can be used for 50% off PowerShell in Practice Read More...
My latest book has been released on the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches takes the newcomer to AD through the tasks they need to perform to manage their organization’s AD. it assumes no knowledge of...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about using Windows PowerShell to deploy a new AD forest Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, I thought I would provide another excerpt from my new Microsoft Press book: Windows 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...
We’ve seen a few things we can do with the WMI provider for Active Directory. One of the most useful is testing replication function test-replication { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace...
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...
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...
Matt and I really are huge fans of PowerShell providers. After talking about them in general and focusing on the registry provider, you think that we’d stop. But no… there are two more days of this talk of providers – Matt is going to...
# Get-DomainModeEnumValues.ps1 # Prints out the values of the DomainMode Enum # Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk # Enumerate System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DomainMode $enums =[enum]::GetValues([System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DomainMode]) ...