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A question came up about piping between advanced functions. The input to the second function might be an array. To illustrate how this works imagine a function that gets disk information ““ or better still use this one. `function get-mydisk { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] …
My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing ““ others are kept for years. I decided that I wanted to keep up to date on the patching of these virtual machines so installed WSUS on a Windows …
Ok the embarrassing moral of this story is that you shouldn’t answer questions in a hurry at the end of the evening. 5 minutes after shutting down I realised that there is a far, far simpler way to get the info. Win32_AccountSID is a WMI linking class. It links Win32_SystemAccount and …
I realised there is an easier way to get the data `function get-SID { param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $exp = “[wmi]'” $( $_ . Element ) “'” Invoke-Expression -Command $exp | …
A question asked about passing a function name into another function which then called the function. It sounds worse than it is. if you need to pass the name of a command and then call it try using invoke-expression `function ffour { Get-Random } function fthree { Get-Date } function ftwo { param ( …
A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine. `function get-SID { param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $da = ( ( $_ . Element ) . Split ( “.” ) [ 1 ] ) …
`**When: Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 7:30 PM (GMT) Where: virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* `Active Directory is one of the commonest automation targets for administrators. This session will covert the basics of automating your AD admin – scripts and the Microsoft cmdlets. The new features in PowerShell for …
PowerShell has won one on InfoWorld"™s Technology of the Year awards for 2013 See http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/80986/infoworlds-2013-technology-of-the-year-award-winners-210419#slide24 for details
The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published. The articles in the series that have been published are: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx …
One of the new features in PowerShell v3 is the capability to update the help files. In fact you have to do this because PowerShell v3 doesn"™t ship with any help files. Since Windows 8 RTM"™d there have been a succession of new help files released. I discovered one of my netbooks …
