PowerShell Web Access eliminates location restrictions
IT professionals no longer need to be glued to their laptop to manage their virtual environments. PowerShell Web Access allows professionals to handle anything from a phone or a tablet.Read More
View ArticleChef Brings DevOps Platform and Practices to Windows and Microsoft Azure
Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced new integration with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), enabling developers and operations teams to best implement DevOps...
View ArticleBook: Announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Revealed
If you have followed my posts here and/or heard me speaking in the last 6 to 8 months, I have been mostly focusing on Desired State Configuration. At the same time, I was busy writing a book for Apress...
View ArticleReset a Computer Account's Active Directory Password from the Command Line
Q: How can I reset a Windows computer account's Active Directory password from the command line?Read More
View ArticleIF Else Statement
Hello,I am running several scripts similar to the one below. While the script is running, it gives me a list of computers not responding along with a few other errors that I would like to capture on a...
View ArticleWin32_printer and cross check with csv file and delete printer Zero clients
I am getting the mac address of the zero client and then importing a csv. from there i filter out all records from the printers list that don't match with the mac address. After the printers are found...
View ArticlePowerShell File Frontier, Part 3: Right Tool for the Job
Over the last few lessons we've been exploring different ways of filtering for files. On one hand using separate cmdlets in a pipelined expression is the "right" way, I also recognize the need for an...
View Articleusing Powershell to query Removable Storage Manager in win 2003
I am trying to use PS to get information about tapes in RSM (Removable Storage Manager).I have been unable to find any posts that refer to "Removable Storage Manager" on the Powershell site.So far I...
View ArticleParsing an array to a function
Hello, I am wondering if someone can give me a quick hand on a function I am writting which it is not behaving in the way I am expecting.I want to call this function by doing a (Get-Content...
View ArticleRename Files in a Directory
I have to rename files in a directory that are pictures but use a number as the extension for a card system. The picture numbers are UID's that relate to individuals. I have been trying to do this in a...
View ArticleSharing problems with $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock
Hello.I realy hope someone can help me here. I´m trying to create a folder on a remote server and then share this folder. The folder is created but it doesn´t get shared. I always get this error...
View ArticleCreating Your Own PowerShell Command
Last week, I posted a PowerShell function that you could use as an accelerator to create your own PowerShell tools. My tool takes command metadata from an existing PowerShell cmdlet and gives you the...
View Articlecall script event
I have a puzzling problem:I have a script that when I click in a button, it runs another .ps1 script. In Powershell ISE it works perfectly, but when I start from a Batch Script it not work, not start...
View ArticleInvoke-command with "Run As Administrator" on remote machines.
Hi,I'm trying to run a command on a remote machine with the invoke-command cmdlet. The command fails with access denied in the eventlog. I need to run the remote session with "Run As Administrator" on...
View ArticleRunning a command line command with powershell
I have been trying to run a couple of dos commands with in powershell. I need to run a couple of TSMVE commands on a bunch of servers. TSMVE commandsChange directory to 1 utf-8 0 false false false...
View ArticleDisplaying a nested group hierarchy
I have an organization that loves nested groups in Active Directory. I have found that nested groups can easily get out of control without good business practices and excellent documentation. I have...
View ArticleExporting from Active Directory (SBS) list of active and disabled domain...
Hi everyone, As you'll see I'm pretty much "fresh" in PowerShell. I've found this Ed Wilson's script named "FindDisabledUserAccounts.ps1" and it works perfectly on my Small Busyness Server with...
View ArticleInstalling Windows Updates using Powershell
Hello Everyone,I have no Powershell experience but need to learn it. We are transitioning to IBM BigFix for patches and can't seem to get it up and running. This is being fixed as we speak but we have...
View ArticleHow to Convert OLM to PST Tool?
To convert OLM file to PST file format, I recommended an excellent or hassles free software, you can use Kernel for OLM to PST Converter Tool. This application efficient to convert MS Outlook 2011 for...
View ArticleScript not work on console
Somebody know why this script works fine in Powershell_ISE but when running in the console doesn’t seem to catch the click events?[void]...
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