37 days ago by whats.to.learn.today

Phew, that was quite a battle. I have been writing some code to import values from a CSV file into some custom lists in SharePoint (I realise that there are, of course, plenty of other ways to import into SharePoint, such as using PowerShell or a third party app., but specific needs call for special ...

37 days ago by patrickhoban

Just a quick post on how to change the fax number for several users who use 555-555-1234 to 555-555-4321. Get-QADUser -SearchRoot "abc.com/ABC/Users" -LdapFilter '(facsimileTelephoneNumber=555-555-1234)' | Foreach-Object{Set-QADuser -Identity $_ -ObjectAttributes @{facsimileTelephoneNumber='555-555- ...

37 days ago by anthonyrstevens

…programatically, that is. It turns out it’s not *quite* the piece of cake that you might imagine. There’s a good Stack Overflow post that outlines some of the various approaches, and I crafted a little PowerShell script that uses the inspect-the-uninstall-Registry-key solution, but I’m not happy wi ...

37 days ago by Jimbo

I’m hard at work here in Code Owls labs building a super-secret PowerShell project that will absolutely blow you away. Or totally muss your hair. Well, provide a slightly refreshing breeze at least. More on that later… Today I was floored to discover an incredibly useful feature of PowerShell that I ...

37 days ago by Dalle

This is the updated version of my old LName function. I changed the name to Get-SNames instead of Get-LNames because of that I know that the correct name is not Last Name and It should be Surname instead. I use It in my create AD lab script and in a couple of other scripts when I need “real” peoples ...

37 days ago by Kirk Munro

Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year. Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I’m quite thrilled about this one because it’s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP). Thanks to the community for being so ...

37 days ago by Yunus Sina Gülşen

There is a great tool for automating workflows in Service Manager. PowerWF uses Powershell and Windows Workflow Foundation to ease the pain of creating custom workflows. It features a visual Powershell IDE and drag & drop style workflow creation. PowerWF Studio

37 days ago by Eric

Moving datastores into folders via drag/drop can be painful. In some cases vCenter does not want to allow a drag from a long list. Here is a quick function to make moving via PowerCLI a little bit easier. Function Move-Datastore { param ( [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.Vmfs ...

37 days ago by Brian Jackett

A few days ago my friend Todd Klindt ( click here for his blog, I get helpful advice there all the time) asked the following question on Twitter: ‘Is there a way to see if someone just his enter with “read-host –assecurestring”? I need to test for no input. #powershell’. Problem As you may know, sec ...

37 days ago by Yunus Sina Gülşen

Well, actually there is no supported way to remove items from Data Warehouse. If you have used your production environment to test and you have lots off irrevelant records than you can force delete them using Powershell. But this does not remove them from Data Warehouse. If you want to start with a ...