Monthly Archives: February 2007

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til its gone

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

A long time ago Joni Mitchell sang "You don’t know what you’ve got ’til its gone".  Those words have been ever so true today.   Already I’m missing: the ability to create posts in Word 2007 and publish straight to … Continue reading →

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Creating Users

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

I was writing about the bulk creation of users with PowerShell when my laptop died this morning.  I can’t access the original file but this is what I was writing as far as I can remember.   Previous posts have looked … Continue reading →

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Laptops – Bah humbug!

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

I was just preparing another post on creating users in Active Directory and my laptop died.  It literally just stopped and doesn’t want to work any more.  After the usualy tests it looks like the powersupply has died.  Repairs are … Continue reading →

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AD Component Jigsaw Poster

Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

Available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c236336d-ab43-44b1-ad6f-a2f668fb8c02&DisplayLang=en this pdf file is well worth a look. Lots of useful information on how the various components of an Active Directory environment interact. 

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Get SQL Server Version

Posted on Tuesday 27 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 last week – see http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!248.entry I have a couple of instances of SQL Server – one in a virtual machine and I have Developer Edition on my laptop. It is relatively … Continue reading →

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Supporting whatif

Posted on Tuesday 27 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell cmdlets that can potentially cause an impact to your system support the -whatif, -confirm and -verbose parameters.   On the PowerShell Team blog there is a very important article on supporting these parameters in scripts – http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/02/25/supporting-whatif-confirm-verbose-in-scripts.aspx   … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Talk

Posted on Tuesday 27 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

Spoke last night at the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group on using PowerShell with Exchange 2007.   If you haven’t come across this Uer Group their web site is here – http://www.mmmug.co.uk/

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Using Nested Loops

Posted on Monday 26 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

One of the recent events in the Scripting Games was to solve the following equation: 12 ? 8 ? 4 ? 2 ? 9 = 23 Where ? has to be replaced by one of the arithmetic operators +, -, … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Team blog

Posted on Sunday 25 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell Team blog is a must read for anyone remotely interested in PowerShell.  In the last few days there have been some really useful articles.   My favourite of the bunch is the use of PowerGadgets to build a count down … Continue reading →

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Multiple Pings

Posted on Saturday 24 February 2007 by richardsiddaway

Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to ping multiple machines.  This task may occur on a repeating basis.    Ping is fairlly easy to use – ping ip_address  and off you go.  Typing it multiple times or … Continue reading →

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