Category Archives: SAPIEN Press

Get Local Admins One-Liner

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

Working with local users and groups can get a little messy in PowerShell. But I wanted to share a quick one-liner you could use to list all the members of the Administrators group.

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Create New Computer with ADSI

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

In Windows PowerShell 2.0: TFM, I wrote a short chapter on managing directory services. This chapter was written before Microsoft released their Active Directory module so I discussed how to use the ADSI type adapter. Well it turns out we … Continue reading →

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Module Mania

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

More and more, you’re seeing members of the Windows PowerShell community package their contributions into modules, myself included. Although you’ll probably still see a lot of individual functions because it is often easier to demonstrate or educate. I received a … Continue reading →

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Get Your Free Scripting Toolkit

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

If you were at this year's TechEd event in New Orleans, I hoped you dropped by the SAPIEN Technologies booth and picked up your free Scripting Toolkit. What's that you say? Check it out on the SAPIEN blog and then … Continue reading →

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Out-Clip

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve started working on the 2nd edition of Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM. As with almost all of my writing projects it will be full of PowerShell code examples. In the past I’ve always relied on a manual … Continue reading →

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