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TechDays SF Presentations

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

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 happy to share my session slides and PowerShell demonstrations. Most of the demonstrations [...]

TechDays San Francisco

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

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 delay once it opens up. As you might expect I’ll be talking PowerShell, plus [...]

Book offer–AD Management in a Month of Lunches

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:00:00 GMT

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

New book

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:00:00 GMT

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 AD and shows how to perform the common management tasks from the GUI (AD Administrative Center & the venerable AD Users & Computers) as well as PowerShell (using the Microsoft cmdlets).

Chapters 1-7 are currently available from www.manning.com\siddaway3 with more to come soon

Use PowerShell to deploy a new Active Directory Forest

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Counting Users by OU with PowerShell

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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 reading →

Testing replication

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

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 root\MicrosoftActiveDirectory -Class MSAD_ReplNeighbor -ComputerName $computername|            
select SourceDsaCN, NamingContextDN,             
@{N="LastSyncAttempt"; E={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.TimeOfLastSyncAttempt)}},            
@{N="LastSyncSuccess"; E={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.TimeOfLastSyncSuccess)}}             
}

A simple call to the MSAD_ReplNeigbor and we can test the last times the DCs attempted to synchronise and the last time they were successful

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 2

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 reading →

Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 1

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 reading →

PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 13 of 31: The Provider Active Directory Style

Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 talk about the Active Directory provider today, and I’m going to [...]