Monthly Archives: June 2011

PowerShell web cast by Don Jones

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Combining Output from Multiple Sources Webcast: Combining Output from Multiple Sources REGISTER NOW July 6, 2011, 12pm CST Presented by: Don Jones Learn how easy-to-make custom objects not only let you combine output from multiple sources, but also allow you … Continue reading →

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Scripting Guy discusses PAM modules

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

My codeplex project publishing PowerShell Admin Modules (PAM) is discussed in this post http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/06/29/don-t-write-wmi-scripts-use-a-powershell-module.aspx In particular the Get-OSInfo function from the PAMSysInfo module is heavily featured

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UK PowerShell Group–June 2011 PowerShell and Office – slides and scripts

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

As promised on the Live Meeting the slides and scripts are now available at https://skydrive.live.com/?wa=wsignin1.0&cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#!/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96&sc=documents&uc=1&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212924!cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212924

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UK PowerShell Group–July meeting advance warning

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

The UK PowerShell group will be presenting a Live Meeting – Tuesday 26 July 2011 @ 7.30pm BST Subject – PowerShell Remoting More details to follow

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IE history to CSV

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Back in April last year I wrote a post about viewing IE history http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2010/04/13/ie-history.aspx I had a comment left asking how this could be put into a CSV file We’ll start by turning the script into an advanced function that … Continue reading →

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Setting Security permissions on an AD group

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

We saw how to create an AD security group here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/06/28/creating-ad-security-groups.aspx   This is how we can give a user full control of that group function set-groupsecurity { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [string]$name ) $dom = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain() $root = $dom.GetDirectoryEntry() $search … Continue reading →

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UK PowerShell UG–30 June 2011

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

The rescheduled UG session (via Live Meeting) on using Office products with PowerShell is tomorrow. Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/06/21/rescheduled-ug-meeting.aspx

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Network Connection Ids

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Yesterday I was looking at changing a Network connection id (the name that shows in Network and Sharing Center when you look at the adapters). I kept getting an error – either COM or number of arguments depending if I … Continue reading →

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Quick Tip: Discovering service start accounts

Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Do you know which accounts are used to start the services running on your machines? if you need this information try: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service | select Name, DisplayName, StartName For a remote machine this becomes Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -ComputerName Win7 … Continue reading →

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Creating AD security groups

Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Continuing my AD excursion for a while. I saw a forum post about creating AD groups and came up with this function function new-securitygroup { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [string]$name, [string]$ou, [parameter(ParameterSetName=”U”)] [switch]$universal, [parameter(ParameterSetName=”G”)] [switch]$global, [parameter(ParameterSetName=”DL”)] [switch]$domainlocal ) $rootdse = [ADSI]”” … Continue reading →

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