PowerShell and Active Directory"“reminder
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
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 { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] …
Starting virtual machines for WSUS
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 keep up to date on the patching of these virtual machines so installed WSUS on a Windows …
Account SIDs"“hopefully my last word
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 info. Win32_AccountSID is a WMI linking class. It links Win32_SystemAccount and …
Account SIDs revisited
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 | …
Passing function names
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 ffour { Get-Random } function fthree { Get-Date } function ftwo { param ( …
Account SIDs
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 ] ) …
UK PowerShell group "“ 29 January 2013
`**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 features in PowerShell for …
PowerShell wins award
PowerShell has won one on InfoWorld"™s Technology of the Year awards for 2013 See http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/80986/infoworlds-2013-technology-of-the-year-award-winners-210419#slide24 for details
Workflow article 4
The next 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 …