Unblock downloaded files with PowerShell
Have you ever got in the situation that you downloaded a zip-file and figured out to late the files are blocked? So you extracted the zip file into a folder with existing items. It will be damn hard to...
View ArticleRunAs administrator
I have tried to use the code below to open an application with runas Asminstrator on the UAC enabled environment. start-process -verb RunAs notepad But a 'Use Account Control' dialog appears to ask me...
View ArticleFor PowerShell Help, It Takes a Community
If you ever need help with PowerShell, you only need to turn to other PowerShell fans. And some of them are creating free or nearly-free tools, ready to download and use. Read More
View ArticleAutomated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!
Hyper-V Replica is a new built-in feature of both Windows Server 2012 and our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 products. Hyper-V Replica enables Hyper-V hosts or clusters to enable distance replication of...
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Creating Windows Explorer with Powershell
Hi! I am new to Powershell, and I am still trying to get a hang of this so be gentle :) I have been asked to write an application so that users (managers) can see which groups have access to which...
View ArticleGet valid write-host content to a variable
Hi The line Write-Host (Get-Date) "LOGIN User:" $env:USERNAME works perfectly, but all attempts to get this info into a variable or pipe the info to another processor fail, e.g. $info = @((Get-Date)...
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Get NTFS permissions in a ListBox.
Hello again! I'm still busy working on an application for managers to add users in a security group in Active Directory. What I have now is an form with a button that lets managers select a folder they...
View ArticleMicrosoft Server's last reboot time
Hello I am looking for a script that can tell me when all of the servers (2003\2008 etc)within a domain were last rebooted. I can compile a text file which lists all of the servers. Thank you
View ArticleFetch user details using Get-ADUser??
hello, How can I fetch an information that has been populated into the Description filed in user object from a .txt or .csv file? I have used the below command, but it doesn't work... any help?...
View ArticlePowershell Scripts to Look for Excel file types( .xlsx and .xls )
Hi Experts, I have an already written scripts which looks for ONLY an excel file with .xls extension. Now, 1. I want the same scripts to look for either .xls or .xlsx which ever it finds in that...
View Articlelooking for the book for the beginner
I need to get involved into PowerShell for Active Directory. Since i am new to powershell and active directory, i need a quick start up book. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks a lot
View Article$This
Hello All,Can some one please give me little more clarity on $This, I have read the help about it but not certain where you would and would not use it. I believe is similar to $_ but used in certain...
View ArticleExporting AD Users to CSV, editing/updating, then importing back into AD
Hi guys, I am very new to Powershell and need some help. I would like to export all users to a CSV, file ( with only the details name, department, description, title, company,and office ) update the...
View ArticleTest-Connection timestamp
I pieced together this powershell command: test-connection dwdmadwsa137 -count 2 -delay 60 | select __SERVER, Address, ProtocolAddress, ResponseTime | out-file c:\temp\test-connection.txt -append It...
View ArticleScript to lock webapplication
I need to lock/readonly the entire web application developed in sharepoint 2010.
View ArticleSearch Entire forest
I am trying to find if a user is disabled or not in AD, it seems the search is not happening for entire forest, I am able to find the users from one domain but not others. can someone tell me what is...
View ArticleConvertTo-HTML from log file
How can I convert a log file to HTML file without losing the format. I tried ConvertTo-HTML but it's not giving the desired output. I am not able to attach file to the post hence copied sample log...
View ArticleCounting the number of occurances of a string on a single line
Hello All, Can someone kindly help me with the following question please. At first I thougt this was going to be easy, however it is turning out to be a little more difficult than I thought I have a...
View ArticleHow to Set Backup Mode using the PowerShell cmdlets
This module describes how to set backup mode for vault stores and index locations using the PowerShell script called Transform-Backup.ps1. This method is used when a third-party application is used to...
View ArticlePowerShell logon script form oddities
I was recently asked to add some logic to our old vbs logon script, but since the old one had a lot of unused functions and needed a rewrite anyway I decided to try to rewrite it in PowerShell. Since I...
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