Monthly Archives: March 2012

PowerShell in Practice offer today only

Posted on Friday 30 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

Manning have PowerShell in Practice on a half price offer today. Go to http://www.manning.com and use code dotd0330cc when ordering

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UK PowerShell Group March 2012 meeting recording

Posted on Thursday 29 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

  The recording, slides and demo script from the session on CIM cmdlets – Tuesday 27 March is available https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212955 Enjoy

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PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 Agenda

Posted on Monday 26 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

The agenda for the PowerShell Deep Dive next month has just been published on the PowerShell team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/03/26/schedule-for-the-upcoming-powershell-deep-dive-and-a-few-videos-from-frankfurt.aspx If you are already booked to go – looking forward to meeting you.  If you’re thinking of going last years event … Continue reading →

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Attributes returned by the cmdlets

Posted on Sunday 25 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

A question on the forum about the default properties returned by Get-ADUser started me thinking about the differences between the Microsoft cmdlets and the Quest cmdlets. So for starters the default display: Get-ADUser richardGet-QADUser richard Get-AdUser Get-QADUser DistinguishedName DN Enabled … Continue reading →

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UG meeting reminder – March 2012

Posted on Sunday 25 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

Quick reminder that the UK user group meeting is on Tuesday 27 March @ 7.30 BST.  Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/03/06/uk-powershell-group-march-2012.aspx   The meeting is on the new CIM functionality in PowerShell v3.  This is a need to know technology as much … Continue reading →

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Updating AD users in bulk

Posted on Thursday 22 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

A question was raised on the forums about bulk updated of user information.  This is an example of how to handle it A CSV file was created Import-Csv -Path “C:\Scripts\AD Examples\Users\bulkchangetest.csv” | Format-Table –AutoSize   userid JobTitle  Cost Center HireDate       … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Deep Dive

Posted on Wednesday 21 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

I heard at the beginning of the week that I’ve been granted a speaker slot at the PowerShell Deep Dive next month – http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2012/ I’ll be speaking on creating cmdlets from WMI objects using a new feature in PowerShell v3 that … Continue reading →

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Folder sizes

Posted on Wednesday 21 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

Question on the forums related to folder sizes and last write time Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\PersonalData\MyBooks\PowerShell and WMI” -Recurse | where { $_.PSIsContainer} | foreach { $size = Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName | measure -Sum Length | select -ExpandProperty Sum Add-Member -InputObject … Continue reading →

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Deleted user accounts–correction

Posted on Wednesday 21 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

In the last post which looked at finding user accounts that had been deleted I had this syntax for the Microsoft cmdlets Get-ADObject -Filter {isDeleted -eq $true -and name -ne “Deleted Objects” } -IncludeDeletedObjects | Format-List Name, Distinguishedname   This … Continue reading →

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Deleted user accounts

Posted on Tuesday 20 March 2012 by richardsiddaway

User accounts get deleted – sometimes on purpose and sometimes its more of a…  oops You can find accounts that have been deleted like this “`nMicrosoft” Get-ADObject -Filter {isDeleted -eq $true -and name -ne “Deleted Objects” } -IncludeDeletedObjects | Format-List … Continue reading →

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