Monthly Archives: January 2013

PowerShell and Active Directory recording

Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

The recording, slides and demo script from yesterday’s PowerShell and Active Directory session can be found here: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140563

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PowerShell workflows–now we are six

Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

  The sixth in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published. The articles in the series that have been published are: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/23/powershell-workflows-restarting-the-computer.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/30/powershell-workflows-using-parameters.aspx Look for … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Active Directory–reminder

Posted on Monday 28 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

Quick reminder for tomorrow’s session from the UK PowerShell group.  Details from: http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/01/16/uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013.aspx

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Piping between functions

Posted on Saturday 19 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

A question came up about piping between advanced functions. The input to the second function might be an array. To illustrate how this works imagine a function that gets disk information – or better still use this one. function get-mydisk{ … Continue reading →

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Starting virtual machines for WSUS

Posted on Thursday 17 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing – others are kept for  years. I decided that I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Account SIDs–hopefully my last word

Posted on Thursday 17 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

Ok the embarrassing moral of this story is that you shouldn’t answer questions in a hurry at the end of the evening. 5 minutes after shutting down I realised that there is a far, far simpler way to get the … Continue reading →

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Account SIDs revisited

Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

I realised there is an easier way to get the data function get-SID { param ( [string]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $exp = “[wmi]'” + $($_.Element) + “‘” Invoke-Expression -Command $exp | select … Continue reading →

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Passing function names

Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

A question asked about passing a function name into another function which then called the function. It sounds worse than it is. if you need to pass the name of a command and then call it try using invoke-expression function … Continue reading →

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Account SIDs

Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine. function get-SID { param ( [string]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $da = (($_.Element).Split(“.”)[1]).Split(“,”) $sid = ($_.Setting -split … Continue reading →

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UK PowerShell group – 29 January 2013

Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

When: Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 7:30 PM (GMT)Where: virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Active Directory is one of the commonest automation targets for administrators. This session will covert the basics of automating your AD admin – scripts and the Microsoft cmdlets. The new … Continue reading →

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