Mark Minasi’s talk: The Case for Powershell
With Mark’s permission, I’m mirroring the video of his recent web talk “The Case for PowerShell: Why You Should Learn-PowerShell So You Needn&...
Tag: PowerShell
PowerShell One-liner
Wondering about the physical memory configuration of a system?
PowerShell one-liner – renaming files
Camera named files like this: P1050640.JPG. To rename the all files in the directory, I used the following:
Scripting printer permissions
I will probably need to refer to this myself, but maybe someone else will find this useful. Still working through some print queue management tasks, I needed to...
Printer management with PowerShell
I find the printer management scripts included with Server 2008 bothersome. However, until we get to Server 2012, with its shiny new printer management cmdlets,...
Printer drivers and architectures with PowerShell
We have a number of 32-bit Windows 2008 print servers that we want to migrate to Windows Server 2012, for the printer management PowerShell cmdlets, among other...
Which Disk is that volume on?
I administer a server VM with a lot of disks, and many of them are the same size. When I need to make changes to the system’s storage, I’m always ne...
String arrays and mandatory parameters
I have been working on a function to convert the output of NET SHARE <sharename> commands into usable PowerShell objects. In the course of my work, I was ...
Powershell, ACLs, and DFS-N
I’m working on some storage issues with our file services, and DFS Namespace services may the the best solution. But I will need to be able to keep the pe...
Listing parent of AD object in PowerShell
Recently, I wanted to provide a client with a list of groups that related to some work he was doing. I wanted the group names as well as their location with AD....