PowerShell for Windows Admins
There’s an announcement from the team producing PowerShell help that most of the help for PowerShell 4.0/Windows 8.1/Windows 2012 R2 is complete.You can see the latest versions of the help files...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SCOM 2012 R2 – New PowerShell Cmdlets
I like to play around with PowerShell and I am always looking for new cmdlets Microsoft creates for us. Isn’t it like getting Christmas gifts all the time ? Today I wanted to find out if there are any...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Create an easily accessible PowerShell 3.0 Help system
If you are using or are just beginning to use PowerShell, chances are that you've been on a few Google expeditions to learn how to use the various commands available in PowerShell. While that is all...
View ArticleNotify DisplayName Change and Email it
All,I am working on a Script which will have to notify if DisplayName is changed.Below is the steps that i want my script to be doing.1. We are maintaining a BaseFile which will store the...
View ArticleCreating seperate txt files for each row retrieved from SQL statement
Hello This is my first post. I am pretty new to Powershell and wondered if anybody can help!. I have this code which needs to write each row from the SQL query to a serperate txt file. The problem I...
View ArticlePowerShell – List Local or Remote Programs with an Exclusion List of Programs
This post is to list all the software installed on your local or remote machines. The exclusion list is an array item which holds the programs that you wanted to exclude it from displaying in an...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to get AD schema information
Sometimes when I engage in FIM 2010 or Active Directory projects, I get the question: "Okay, then which attributes do we actually have in our Active Directory then?". It is a fair question and often...
View ArticlePowerShell Tools for Visual Studio
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio adds language support for PowerShell in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 RC. This tool is currently in beta.Read More
View ArticleRunning SharePoint PowerShell scripts as part of a Visual Studio post build...
Today I had to create a powershell script that make some changes to SharePoint as part of the post-build command line in Visual Studio. Long story short, I kept getting issues where the PowerShell...
View ArticlePowershell with Other Programming Languages
I'm currently an aspiring programmer and it's safe to say I'm a novice at best. I've only been teaching myself powershell commands for maybe four or five weeks now, with the end goal of learning...
View ArticleHow to Lock Down a Remote PowerShell with a Constrained Endpoint
When considering whether to allow PowerShell to run on servers, security has been a concern for some system administrators. Despite its powerful and wide-reaching feature set, PowerShell was designed...
View ArticleHow to get what users are logged into a list of computers?
Hello everyone. I am pretty new to PS scripting, but this is an awesome tool! I have had alot of luck with gathering information from scripts that I have found and manipulated to perform the tasks that...
View ArticleOutput formatting with nested hashtable
If I do the following:$var= @{}for ($i= 1;$i-le 5;$i++) {$var[$i] = @{One='';Two='';Three=''}$var[$i].One="One$i"$var[$i].Two="Two$i"$var[$i].Three="Three$i"} $var will output:Name...
View ArticleCan PS have a display message while code runs?
In PowerShell is there a way to run a script and have some type of dialog present saying "Script is running, please wait." ?? I am running a script in PowerShell ISE and the only indication I see that...
View ArticleSearch file for specific text and if found write a number into a variable
I know that this is probably really easy but I am drawing a blank on how to accomplish it. Here is what I have:$dir = "\\BHC\D$\PDX\Logs\Threshold Manager_*_*.log"$latest = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir |...
View ArticleHow do i create code which allows me to see the the backup age of a file,
HI, i work with a computer protection business who wants to set up a system where if someone does not backup ther computerin the last seven days that the program will read it and send them an email....
View ArticleProblem with Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock option
Hi Guys,Senerio: Computer A: The computer have share called \\computerA\SID\ which have a file named Pass.txt shared to everyone read access. Computer B: This computer is the target.What i am doing:i...
View ArticleEnable Logon As Batch Privilege
I need to add the group Administrators to Enable Logon as Batch Privilege in Local Security Policy via Powershell, but am not having any luck so far researching it. Best I can find anywhere - or at...
View ArticleWhy is there no "USB001" printer port?
Am trying to add several printers. Have done so with success for any printers on the LPT1 port using (for example) -$printerclass = [wmiclass]'Win32_Printer'$printer =...
View ArticleHow to Lock Down a Remote PowerShell with a Constrained Endpoint
How can I use constrained endpoints to lock down remote PowerShell access?Read More
View Article