To manage your environment, use the AD PowerShell provider that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2, or the Active Directory Management Gateway for any down-level DC.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/19/2011
Pipeline binding can get you what you want, as long as you use some of the PowerShell tricks up your sleeve.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/11/2011
No more wading through xml files to get what you need. The Get-FormatData cmdlet offers some nice data presentation.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/05/2011
Pipeline binding can get you what you want, as long as you use some of the PowerShell tricks up your sleeve.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/29/2011
Continuing our refresher on PowerShell basics, we'll revisit the pipeline.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/22/2011
PowerShell doesn't require that you become a developer, but you do have to get the basic concept of objects. It's simple, really. Let's revisit, if you don't object.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/15/2011
It happens to all of us: We forget things. Use the PowerShell Get-Help cmdlet to rejog your memory.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/08/2011
The -Delimiter parameter of the Export-CSV cmdlet is what makes working with CSV files in PowerShell so, well, limitless.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/01/2011
When two worlds collide -- that is, the VBscript and PowerShell worlds -- it can be a beautiful thing. Here's what I mean.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/08/2011
The Get-Member cmdlet's -View parameter gives you -- you guessed it -- a wider perspective of the cmdlet's members.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/31/2011
Customize graphical elements of the user's desktop via the Shell.Application COM object. Yes, it can be done through PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/18/2011
The Select-Object cmdlet lets you get what you always want, at least as parameters are concerned.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/11/2011
At the heart of this awesome no-frills editor is the $psise object, handy for configuring the ISE how you want it.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/04/2011
Measure-Object cmdlet has some interesting properties, but it's up to us to figure out how to use them creatively.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/13/2010
The JobStateInfo property can expose the failure of background processes.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/07/2010