Change Modern Windows Event Log settings with PowerShell
I may be late to the party, but I just found the cmlets I need to update the properties of modern Windows event logs. The Limit-EventLog cmdlet only works with ...
Tag: PowerShell
Convert Active Directory AccountExpires attribute
I wrote a quick function to convert the AccountExpires attribute from the Long Integer value to a DateTime object or a string object of “!! Never !!”...
Transitioning from PowerShell ISE to VS Code
Jeffrey Snover has said that all new IDE development is targeting Visual Studio Code. It’s a really nice environment. It also has built-in Git support.
PowerShell pipeline mechanics
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2016/11/21/two-ways-to-accept-pipeline-input-in-powershell/
Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...
PowerShell Script: New-RandomString.ps1
I need to automate the setting of passwords on some Active Directory accounts. Since resetting passwords is also a task that I’m asked to perform with som...
PowerShell documentation error – loop labels
I’ve been banging my head on a problem with a script I’m writing. I want to stop executing an inner loop and resume with the next iteration of an ou...
Get-PrintJobs.ps1 PowerShell script
After a recent upgrade of our print servers, I discovered that the Print Spooler service event logging had been enhanced, and changed enough that some PowerShe...
Set default printer with PowerShell
Closely related to my previous post, this simple script uses a WScript.Network COM object to set the default printer. The comment block is longer than the scrip...
Add network printer with PowerShell
This is my PowerShwell translation of my colleague’s VBScript solution for mapping network printers with a script. For use with Group Policy, it will prob...