Monthly Archives: December 2007

PowerShell and IIS 7

Posted on Monday 31 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

If you were at IT Forum in Barcelona in November 2006 you will remember the key note speech in which some PowerShell cmdlets were demonstrated administering IIS 7.  Really good demo.  Sadly it doesn’t look like the cmdlets are going … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Download beta

Posted on Saturday 29 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

Be aware that Microsoft have a new download routine in beta.  It is based on Silverlight looks better than the current flat download pages.  At the moment it you are given the choice of using the beta or the current … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Group Policy

Posted on Saturday 29 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

I came across a reference to an administrative template for PowerShell.  It allows the control of PowerShell execution policy via GPO.  Very useful in the enterprise!!! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2917a564-dbbc-4da7-82c8-fe08b3ef4e6d&displaylang=en&Hash=eonNXRtSL%2fmjkHPqeR5x83EVD071zxcJeRh%2f76QVK7XU7QmEBbtWkvFjJw%2foHkRpX3h2YhDy5b7MB0NHxJA7oA%3d%3d Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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Scripting Games 2008

Posted on Friday 28 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

The Winter Solstice has been and gone.  Its nearly New Year and the days are beginning to get longer (just).  It can only mean one thing – the 2008 Scripting Games are on the way. Details from here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/default.mspx Technorati … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V2 and /n software NetCmdlets

Posted on Thursday 27 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

The /n software NetCmdlets install quite happily on the PowerShell V2 CTP and seem to run just fine. One slight issue is the /n software NetCmdlets and the PowerShell Community Extensions both contain a cmdlet named Write-Zip.  PowerShell tab expansion … Continue reading →

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More Free Books

Posted on Sunday 23 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

Baen have added three more books to their free library. The books are: Crown of Slaves by David Weber and Eric Flint Emerald Sea by John Ringo Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier The first two are really good.  I haven’t … Continue reading →

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What will happen in 2008

Posted on Saturday 22 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

If you want a thought provoking read – try this http://bink.nu/news/what-to-expect-from-microsoft-in-2008.aspx There is some interesting things happening in this list.  If its any way near accurate – next year will be busy & fun.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft, 2008

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PowerShell Toolbox

Posted on Friday 21 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

The Microsoft TechNet script center (center still doesn’t look even right after all these years 🙂 ) has a PowerShell Toolbox page.  It contains links to Editors, Books, Cmdlets and web sites.   Some very good stuff available from here. It … Continue reading →

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List mailboxes by mailbox database

Posted on Thursday 20 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

I was asked today how we could look at which users are in which mailbox database on Exchange 2007.  Simple answer is Get-Mailbox | Sort database, name | Format-Table name, database Technorati Tags: PowerShell, Exchange 2007

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Searching deleted user accounts in AD

Posted on Thursday 20 December 2007 by richardsiddaway

In this post http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!851.entry I discussed the [ADSISEARCHER] accelerator that is included with the PowerShell V2 CTP.  I made a comment at the bottom of the post about searching deleted user accounts and posting about this later.  I was reminded … Continue reading →

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