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I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Tag Archives: PowerShell
Friday Fun – A PowerShell Console Menu
When working in PowerShell, and especially when scripting, you might want to give the user a choice of actions. For example, you might develop a configuration script that another admin or technician will run. Perhaps one of the steps is … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged console, PowerShell, Read-Host, switch
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Thursday Treat – A PowerShell Word Find Game
Now for something completely different but hopefully a little fun. I’m a big fan of word games and puzzles. Tim Bolton has assembled a few PowerShell themed crosswords, which you can find on his blog. I’ve always like word finds … Continue reading
Friday Fun – Get Ranked Object
Earlier this week on Google Plus, Hal Rottenberg posted a PowerShell idea he had. His goal was to identify a group of objects that would be statistically significant. For example, given a collection of files, group the files by size … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting
Tagged functions, math, objects, Pipeline, PowerShell
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Updating Multi-Valued Active Directory Properties Part 2
A few weeks ago I posted about updating multi-valued attributes in Active Directory. Part 1 covered how to accomplish this in PowerShell using ADSI. In Part 2 I’ll show you how to accomplish this using the free Active Directory cmdlets … Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, PowerShell, Quest Software, Windows Server
Tagged Active Directory, Get-QADUser, PowerShell, Quest, Set-QADUser
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