Monthly Archives: October 2007

AD – protection from accidental deletion

Posted on Wednesday 31 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

My article on using the Windows 2008 AD new feature  Protection from Accidental Deletion,  via PowerShell as been published on the Industry Insiders site http://blogs.technet.com/industry_insiders/pages/windows-server-2008-protection-from-accidental-deletion.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell, Active Directory

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Saga of Recluce

Posted on Wednesday 31 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

I have been re-reading a couple of books from the Saga of Recluce series by L. E. Modesitt Jr. – Magi’i of Cyador and Scion of Cyador.   If you haven’t read this series it details the conflict between Chaos and Order … Continue reading →

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Prometric Exam centres

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

Earlier this year Microsoft changed to only using Prometric to deliver MCP exams.  Apart from my first two exams in late 1999 I have been using VUE for all my exams – mainly because the nearest exam centres were VUE. … Continue reading →

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Command line versus cmdlet

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

As I mentioned earlier one of my Domain Controllers is built on Server Core. Wanting to look at administering these boxes (no PowerShell !!!) we have to fall back on the ds* command line tools. If I want to see … Continue reading →

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Adding members to groups

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

Thinking about the script in the previous post for adding members to groups there is an obvious way to simplify it ## read the list of groupsImport-Csv -Path groups.txt | ForEach-Object {     $file = $_.Name + ".txt"    $file     … Continue reading →

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AD Rebuild VI – Populating groups

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

If you have been following to this stage we have created OUs, Groups and the user population of our new AD.  Its now time to populate those groups. I have a set of text files containing names. One file per … Continue reading →

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Invoking external commands

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

Interest in PowerShell is obviously growing as I am seeming questions about PowerShell appear in forums other than those dedicated to PowerShell.  One recent question was about invoking external commands in PowerShell. There are a number of ways to achieve … Continue reading →

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Transferring FSMO roles ???

Posted on Saturday 27 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

I have been testing Windows 2008 and have a test domain with 2 domain controllers.  The first DC is built as Server Core and holds all of the FSMO roles because it was the first DC.  Building a new forest … Continue reading →

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New announcements in the pipeline

Posted on Saturday 27 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

Keep an eye on the PowerShell Team blog – looks like some details of the PowerShell futures will be coming soon http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/10/27/cool-stuff-coming.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server

Posted on Friday 26 October 2007 by richardsiddaway

Just came across this little gem of a story – see http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6656004430.html among others. Technorati Tags: Windows, Linux

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