Tag Archives: xml

Get PowerShell View Definitions

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

When you write objects to the pipeline in Windows PowerShell, at the end of the pipeline PowerShell’s formatting system handles displaying the results to the console. It accomplishes this by using a set of rules stored in XML configuration files. … Continue reading →

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Creating ACL Reports

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I saw a tweet this morning that was a PowerShell one-liner for capturing folder permissions to a text file. There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s hard to be truly productive in 140 characters so I thought I would take … Continue reading →

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Get GPO Backup

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

The GroupPolicy module from Microsoft offers a great deal of functionality from a command line. In terms of regular maintenance or administration it is pretty hard to beat, especially if you have 100s or 1000s of GPOs. When you have … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun Quote of the Day

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

For this week’s Friday Fun post, I have another idea on how to brighten your PowerShell console. The concept of a message of the day or quote of the day in computing goes way back to the dark ages (ie … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Weather Module

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

I first wrote a Windows PowerShell function several years ago to retrieve weather information via Yahoo’s weather service. I’ve been itching to rewrite it and finally found some time over the weekend. Turns out it’s a good thing I did … Continue reading →

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