I was testing out the PowerShell cmdlets that ship with Backup and Replication from Veeam Software. I was using the cmdlet to return backup jobs and realized I needed a way to only get those objects where the date was today. Because the property was a complete date time object, I couldn’t simply check if A -eq B. I needed something else. Continue reading
I think you’ll like this. Normally, I prefer my PowerShell commands to write objects to the pipeline. But there’s nothing wrong with sending output directly to the console, as long as you know that the output is intended only for the screen. What I find frustrating is the use of Write-Host when really, pipelined objects would be better. But for today, I’m going to revel in the beauty of the console and create a colorized drive utilization graph. Continue reading
Yesterday on Twitter, I got a tweet from @Docsmooth regarding how to update a multivalued property in Active Directory. There are a number of ways to handle this, especially from PowerShell naturally, so I tweeted one way in a series of tweets. But that’s a hard way to learn something, and anyone jumping in the middle of the tweet stream might have been a bit confused. So I thought I’d write up a more formal explanation. Because there are a few ways to handle this situation, I’ll cover each approach in a separate article. Today we’ll look at using ADSI in PowerShell. Continue reading
Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of PowerShell background jobs if you want your prompt back. Of course, you can always open a second session, but I like the background job approach. Here’s how I’ve been experimenting with this. Continue reading
In one of my recent articles for SMB IT, I included a PowerShell module. In the article I referenced that I included support for -Whatif in one of the functions. I was asked on Twitter to explain what I meant and how it works. So here goes. Continue reading
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