Monthly Archives: December 2014

PowerShell Summit NA 2015

Posted on Wednesday 31 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

We will be getting extra capacity for the PowerShell Summit NA 2015 in Charlotte. The extra places should become available 11 January 2015 – see http://powershell.org/wp/2014/12/30/powershell-summit-n-a-2015-additional-capacity/ for details.  Please check the powershell.org site for further news

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PowerShell review of 2014

Posted on Wednesday 31 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

See my review of 2014 from a PowerShell perspective on the Scripting Guy blog – http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/12/31/2014-a-powershell-year-in-perspective.aspx

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More on dates

Posted on Tuesday 30 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

My recent post on date conversions seems to have generated a fair bit of confusion and discussion. The original task was to read in a string from a CSV file that contained a date in UK format – DD/MM/YYYY and … Continue reading →

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ANR and AD searches

Posted on Tuesday 30 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

A comment on this post –  https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/using-givenname-and-surname-instead-of-samaccountname/ suggested using ANR – Ambiguous Name Resolution as a method of searching AD. ANR provides a fuzzy search mechanism for AD – think wildcard search. If you perform an ANR search you’ll get … Continue reading →

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Using GivenName and Surname instead of samAccountName

Posted on Monday 29 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

A recent comment on this post – https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2762&action=edit – asked about using the given name and surname rather than the samAccountName in Get-ADUser. Get-ADUser has 4 options when using the –Identity parameter: Account name = samAccountNmae Distinguished Name GUID Security … Continue reading →

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Date conversions

Posted on Tuesday 23 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

Saw a question regarding the conversion of dates in UK format DD/MM/YYYY to US format MM/DD/YYYY Using 25 December 2014 as an example If you have a dat in US format you can do this £> $sd = ’12/25/2014′£> $d … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas from the PowerShell team

Posted on Tuesday 23 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell team have produced wave 9 of the DSc resource kit – just in time for Christmas – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/12/17/another-holiday-present-from-the-powershell-team-dsc-reskit-wave-9.aspx This wave contains a number of new resources and some updates to existing resources including the Exchange resource. You can … Continue reading →

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European Summit 2015 call for topics #2

Posted on Monday 22 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

The call for topics for the European PowerShell Summit is still open – http://powershell.org/wp/2014/11/24/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/ Please submit your topics by the deadline of 11 January 2015. A few people have suggested subjects for topics they would like to see: Azure automation … Continue reading →

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Delivering PowerShell code with the November preview

Posted on Sunday 21 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

Step one of investigating OneGet and PowerShellGet – install the latest preview.  I have the environment I used for the demos at the European PowerShell Summit with a machine set up for DSC. Its currently running the September preview: £> … Continue reading →

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Selecting AD properties

Posted on Wednesday 17 December 2014 by richardsiddaway

Saw a question on the forums about selecting name properties using the Microsoft AD cmdlets.  By default Get-AdUser returns a limited subset of properties: £> Get-ADUser -identity richard DistinguishedName : CN=Richard,CN=Users,DC=Manticore,DC=orgEnabled           : TrueGivenName         :Name              : RichardObjectClass       : userObjectGUID        : 7c42be70-c6b2-401f-8296-46de9ee7446cSamAccountName    … Continue reading →

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