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Get Local Admin Group Members in a New Old Way

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Yesterday I posted a quick article on getting the age of the local administrator account password. It seemed appropropriate to follow up on a quick and dirty way to list all members of the local administrator group. Normally, I would turn to WMI (and have written about this in the past). But WMI is relatively [...]

Friday Fun: Expand Environmental Variables in PowerShell Strings

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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 because … Continue reading →

Convert Text to Object Updated

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I’ve had a few comments and emails lately about my post and script on converting text to objects. I decided the function needed a little more lovin’ so today I have an updated version, complete with comment based help. Function … Continue reading →

Turning IPConfig DNSCache into PowerShell

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Lately I’ve been writing about techniques to turn command line tools into PowerShell tools. Although I suppose the more accurate description is turning command line output into PowerShell pipelined output. The goal is to run a command line tool and … Continue reading →

Simple Where Filters

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

The comment about how awkward it is in PowerShell to filter out folders with Get-ChidlItem, or its alias dir, came up the other day on Twitter. I’ll be the first to admit that running a DIR command and wanting to … Continue reading →

Convert Text to Object

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Today I have another tool in my new battle regarding turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. The bottom line is we want to have objects written to the pipeline. At the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt there was a … Continue reading →

Turning CLI Tools into PowerShell Tools Deep Dive Demos

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 →