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A question on my blog asked how do you know which domain controller you are running against when you search Active Directory. Unless you explicitly instruct your script to use a specific domain controller it will use the one to which you authenticated. You can find the DC to which you authenticated …
Microsoft’s a big company, and that makes it a big target for lawsuits. We all know that. But what doesn’t always sink in is how careful the company has to be. For example, in Microsoft Official Curriculum course 10961, Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 3.0, I have to …
A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting. I would approach it like this `$servers = Get-Content -Path C:\scripts\servers.txt $data = @( ) foreach ( $server in $servers ) { $compdata = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property …
A question on the forum about a function had me thinking. The user had defined two parameters for the function and then used Read-Host to get the values. NO Much better way is to use an advanced function and make the parameters mandatory `function Getuserdetails { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [ …
I"™ve written a series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog. The first two in the series have been published at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx …
Microsoft course 10961, which will be a 5-day course on PowerShell 3.0, is officially in development! We received signoff on the outline this week, and I’ve submitted a first module for review. A big part of that review is making sure I’m using the template properly, as the authoring …
In September 2012, we incorporated PowerShell.org, Inc., and founded PowerShell.org. Our goal was to provide a solid Q&A forum, and to act as a portal to the rest of the PowerShell community. By any measure, we’ve had a great first showing. We have more than a dozen shareholders in …
As I write this, we’re close to sign-off on the outline of 10961A, which is a new 5-day Microsoft course on PowerShell v3. I sat down yesterday and starting doing some detailed-level design work on the proposed Module 9, which will cover PowerShell Remoting. I love Remoting (and yes, I …
This is the list of proposed sessions for 2013. It is subject to change depending on circumstances. All sessions are delivered by Live Meeting on Tuesdays at 7:30 UK time 29 January – PowerShell and Active Directory 26 February – PowerShell Advanced Functions 26 March – PowerShell cmdlets for …
The Windows Management Framework 3.0 has been released as a Windows update. However there are some compatibility issues as documented on the PowerShell team blog. if you haven"™t see the post it here …
