Monthly Archives: January 2016

Scripting Game puzzle – – January 2016

Posted on Sunday 31 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

Here’s how I’d solve the puzzle function get-starttime {    [CmdletBinding()]    param(        [parameter(                ValueFromPipeline=$true,                 ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]        [Alias(‘CN’, ‘Computer’)]        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]          [string[]]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME    )        PROCESS {            foreach ($computer in $computername){            $props = [ordered]@{                ComputerName = $computer                StartTime = ”                … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Deal of the Day – – 31 January 2016

Posted on Saturday 30 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is Manning’s Deal of the Day Sunday 31 January 2016 Deal of the Day January 31: Half off Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition. Use code dotd013116au at https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-third-edition PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is … Continue reading →

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PowerShell editing options

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

I’ve used the ISE since it first appeared in PowerShell 2.0 but there are a couple of recent annocements that increase your code editing options ISE previews will become available out of band rather than being tied to WMF/OS releases … Continue reading →

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Which filter

Posted on Wednesday 27 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

Get-ADUser has 2 filter parameters. The –Filter takes a PowerShell syntax filter e.g. Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -eq ‘Richard’} The –LDAPfilter takes an LDAP search filter e.g. Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter “(Name=Richard)” Mixing them up will ensure you don’t get the results you … Continue reading →

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Rescuing IE favourites

Posted on Tuesday 26 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

I received the new Windows Insider Windows 10 build over the wekend and have just discovered that installing it wiped out my IE favourites – or at least those in folders. I’d copied my favourites to Microsoft Edge when installing … Continue reading →

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FQDN

Posted on Tuesday 26 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

How do you find the FQDN of the machine you’re using.  The simplest way is to combine a couple of environmental variables: PS> “$env:COMPUTERNAME.$env:USERDNSDOMAIN”SERVER02.MANTICORE.ORG If you like using CIM (and who doesn’t) you can try this PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem … Continue reading →

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CDXML filter parameters

Posted on Sunday 24 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

I was recently asked about adding a filter parameter to a cmdlet created through CDXML. If you’ve not seen it before (see PowerShell and WMI Chapters 18 & 19 from http://www.manning.com) CDXML allows you to creat ecmdlets by wrapping a … Continue reading →

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WMF 4.0 Updates available downlevel

Posted on Wednesday 20 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

The WMF 4.0 Updates that were released in November 2014 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are now available for: Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows 7 SP1 You need WMF 4.0 installed to install … Continue reading →

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Setting external time source in AD

Posted on Monday 18 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

The PDC emaulator in the root domain of your AD forest should point to an external time source. For some odd reason the PDC emulator in my lab wasn’t doing that. Easily remedied: #### set external time source## set server … Continue reading →

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WMF 5.0

Posted on Sunday 17 January 2016 by richardsiddaway

If you follow the PowerShell Team blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/ (and if you don’t you should) you’ll know that the WMF 5.0 RTM downloads were pulled just before Christmas. This was due to a bug that reset the module environment. A … Continue reading →

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