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I am back this week with a quick write up on how to export your network subnets from Active Directory Sites and Services. Active Directory Sites and Services subnet assignments are important for healthy replication and for location based services to function properly. The need for this information …
Hey there! I thought we could test PowerShell Direct together today. Here’s the elevator pitch: In Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, we can send PowerShell commands from the Hyper-V host directly to its corresponding virtual machines (VMs), even in the absence of guest VM networking. Yeah, …
Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, October 13th at 8:30pm Central Time when Timothy Warner will present “Pattern Match Like a Pro: Using Regular Expressions with Windows PowerShell”. Many Windows systems administrators are intimidated with regular expressions due to its …
Have you ever wondered what LDAP queries were hitting your domain controllers? Even outside of fun investigations, it can be insightful to get a sampling of queries hitting your domain controller. The more services you have integrated with Active Directory, the more likely a vendor or sysadmin …
Our October 2015 puzzle might take us beyond the realm of one-liners, but it circles back to the August 2015 theme of retrieving information from the web. This is another scenario that actually has a lot of real-world applications, in that there’s a lot of practical uses in the work …
Well this is week number two in my quest to post an article once a week and I am back with a common request for Exchange administrators. There are a lot of scenarios that bring up a need to remove an e-mail or e-mails from all mailboxes in your environment. Perhaps there was a disgruntled employee, …
Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 is a very popular method to create VHD’s with. However it’s not a module, and in it’s current form cant be added to one. So I have started a new project on GitHub called WindowsImageTools and posted the results to the PowerShell Gallery. It has a few …
One of the coolest features of PowerShell is the many tools we have available to work with services on the web, be they SOAP, REST, RPC or even WSDL services. It’s no question, PowerShell makes it very easy to pull down data from any of these places. Unfortunately, getting data from a service …
Hello PowerShell.org community, This is my first post here at PowerShell.org, and I have a goal of posting tips, tricks, articles, and solutions once a week. My first exposure to scripting was on my x486 computer. I would always create .bat files to launch my DOS based games from the root folder. I …
Here’s a brief rundown of how we leverage a few Cmdlets from the PSScheduledJob module to manage our Analytics stack. For those of us on the Analytics team at Pluralsight , PowerShell is the lynch-pin which binds our two worlds together. To manage the gaps inherent in all platforms (since one tool …
