Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows PowerShell Active Directory module provider to modify user attributes in AD DS. Hey, Scripting Guy! Just searching for users, or filtering for them, is not entirely all that useful...
Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory module provider to find non-default AD DS user properties. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find information about users such as office location,...
Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover dynamic parameters for his favorite cmdlets. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I submitted my session for SQL Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia. To be...
Much like the saying It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to raise a programming language. Without passionate people in that community, the word won’t spread and a language can die. Yesterday, I talked about some of the cool...
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...
Yesterday, Matt and I talked about providers, and I mentioned that I wasn’t going to go on talking about the registry provider, as that’s what Matt is talking about today! What’s nice is that you don’t have to type out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...
Today, Matt is going to tell you about the awesomeness known as PowerShell providers. I have to admit that providers really are helpful. Sure, there are the PowerShell-specific providers – Alias, Function, and Variable. These can tap into the PowerShell...
A new feature of Windows PowerShell 2.0 lets you write custom cmdlet help for Windows PowerShell providers. This blog explains how to do it. (The topic will also be covered in excruciating detail in MSDN, but we don't want you to wait.) What's a Provider? A Windows PowerShell provider is a C#...