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I was asked about searching a user name for a string and replacing it so that the object is renamed. This is a three stage activity. First get the user. Two modify the name. Three rename the object. In active directory the name attribute has the LDAP name of cn but the Microsoft AD cmdlets treta it …
My company has been contracted by Microsoft to design and author Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) course 10961A, Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell v3. While there is no announced release date I can share, I did want to share some of the experience. As I write this, 10961A’s …
PowerShell Deep Dives is a book put together by the PowerShell community. I"™m editing one of the sections and have contributed some of the chapters. Manning have just started releasing it on their MEAP program. The full book will hopefully be ready in the spring. Best of all the royalties are …
John Mello gave a presentation entitled “Intro to PowerShell’s Pipeline, Part 1”. A copy of his slide deck and code examples are available here. Script Club : John R. Nahrgang and [Lido Paglia](http://paglia.org/) presented a work in progress script that returns all the members of …
As I write this, we’re down to one ticket for the PowerShell Summit North America 2013. So what do you do if you really wanted to go, but miss that last, golden ticket? Cry a Little Let’s face it, this was totally avoidable. It’s probably your boss’ fault for not approving …
I’ve written previously about my frustration with reporting in PowerShell - how I see admins struggle with ugly, low-level COM code to manipulate Excel spreadsheets, just so they can get nice-looking reports with a degree of automation. Enough. The right thing to do is put your data in SQL …
So, as you may know, I have an ongoing hobby project called _Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell. _I’m working on an update for next year, and one of the things I’ve been looking at are embedded charts within the report. Problem is, I don’t know what people would actually chart. …
A long time ago… about a year, in fact… Jason Helmick and I started talking about a community-owned PowerShell “certification.” It went nowhere. Well, not very far. Some background on exams: Microsoft, in my opinion, will never do a PowerShell cert. I say this having been …
TJ Turner gave a demonstration of how to bring Server 2012 Core: To [Minimal Server](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh846317(v=vs.85).aspx) - To Full GUI - Back down to [Core](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh846323(v=vs.85).aspx) again. - A copy of …
In my last post I hinted about more news coming soon for the 2013 PowerShell Summit. In addition to the fantastic list of sessions that attendees will be able to attend, we also have a special event lined up for the last day of the event. On Wednesday, April 24th, for the entire afternoon attendees …
