Using PowerShell for SQL Server Analysis Services tasks - Part 1
There are several repetitive SSAS tasks that I perform on a regular basis and I want to know what options there are to automate some of these tasks such as processing partitions, creating backups and...
View ArticleERRATA: Administrator's Guide to Windows PowerShell Remoting
page 13, Section on "Temporary Sessions"In the command text samples, "Invoke-Computer" should be "Invoke-Command".This is also true on page 14 under "Reusable Sessions".Bob
View ArticleCSV piped to Convertto-XML
This works:$csv = Get-Content "c:\temp\products.csv"$obj = $csv | convertfrom-csv -Delimiter ","$xml = $obj | convertto-xml$xml.InnerXml | Out-File -Width 80 "c:\temp\products.xml"But the output is a...
View ArticleSearch Multiple Computer's Regestry
Hello, I'm very new to Powershell/scripting in general and have found this website to be a great resource. So far my Powershelling has been limited to little one liners but I now want to challenge...
View ArticleOBtain a list of Unapproved communities by Powershell
The list of all Approved communities exist in a SharePoint List at http://mysite/sites/communities/MysiteCommunityRequestLib/Forms/AllItems.aspxAll Communities exist in a site collection at...
View ArticleExchanged 2007, find all emails older then ...
Hi,I need two things (exchange 2007):1) To fined all emails in specific mailbox in range of dates: all emails from "date" to "date", or older then "date". need to generate report. 2) need the option...
View ArticlePowershell is driving me insane
I am very familiar with Linux shell language, and since I am now learning Powershell, I need to show you something very basic for which, apparently, there is no workaround, and it is a bug for any...
View ArticleWindows Azure SDK 2.0 Adds New PowerShell cmdlets with Enhancements for...
The recently released Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET includes new features and enhancements for web sites, cloud services, storage, service bus, PowerShell and is available as an open source project...
View ArticleAutomating Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) Deployment with...
With Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets, the process to customize and automate an infrastructure deployment to Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) becomes a relatively simple and manageable...
View ArticleScriptCS or PowerShell? part 1
A few days ago I posted a teaser of a project I hammered together that allowed you to run ScriptCS inside of your PowerShell session. Read More
View ArticlePS results into Excel
i Found this inventory script that Jesse Hamrick wrote over att powershellpro.com that gathers alot of wmi info about a selection of servers and sends it to a new excel...
View ArticleLong File Paths
The MAX_PATH for Windows is 260 characters, really 259 because the <NULL> character at the end. At my company there are some users who have files and directories that they cannot open because the...
View ArticlePowerShell Basics: Variables
Variables are a fundamental part of Windows PowerShell. They're quite different from the variables in Cmd.exe. In Cmd.exe, all variables are environment variables, which you primarily access with the...
View ArticleWMI CIM-plified Part 5: WSMAN Protocol
In PowerShell 3.0, the new CIM cmdlets use the WSMAN protocol to retrieve WMI information. A byproduct is that the objects you retrieve across the wire do not have any WMI methods. Using WMI, we would...
View ArticleInput parameters not available when calling powershell script from VBA
Hello. I am having some issues when calling a PowerShell script from within VBA. The issue seems that the input parameters to the script do not seem to have a global scope as they do when you call the...
View ArticleModify script to be recursive and save to .csv file?
I've found (on this site: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tobias/archive/2008/11/25/cleaning-hard-drives-and-finding-folders-total-size.aspx ) a great script dir C:\ | Where-Object { $_.PSisContainer }...
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Import CSV file comparing by First or Last Name
Hello,I have an Excel file which has First Name, Last Name and otherPager which we are using for our badge reading devices attached to scanners.I need to read the Excel file and then compare the name...
View Articlehow to not concern invoke commad 's return?
thanks nohandle ,i will question the net map question.now i have a new question: env:pc1/2/3 use xp , all installed powershell v2 pc1 want to use invoke pc2,pc3 for...
View ArticleGet the selected products in WSUS
Hi,I would like to write a script that retrieves the selected products on my WSUS servers.I did not find yet how to, could you please help me ? Thanks in advance,Dimitri
View Articlemodify content of xml's by powershell
Hello,I migrate sharepoint users from DomainA to DomainB. I have a problem with Infopath forms. When a form is sent to acceptation with one of approvers login like "DomainA\username" and next this user...
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