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By Adam Bertram
If you manage just a few user accounts, you could get by with AD Users and Computers or the AD Administrative Center. But if you're in a large organization, you can use PowerShell to automate the identity management process.
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By Adam Bertram
When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.
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By Adam Bertram
It's not always the best idea to create Active Directory users from scratch. Your company likely has a standard "template" of attributes that are set for every domain user. So why are you still creating each one by hand?
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Microsoft last week released the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0 for PowerShell Core 6, allowing PowerShell Core 6 users to access modules that Microsoft hasn't yet added natively to the PowerShell Core product.
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By Adam Bertram
Setting up a place to store files in the cloud isn't quite as easy as doing it on-prem. That's where Microsoft's Azure Files service comes in.
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By Adam Bertram
When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.
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By Adam Bertram
Disk2Vhd is a little Microsoft utility that does one thing and one thing well: convert physical computers to virtual disks.
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By Adam Bertram
For the longest time, the open source community had a concept called "public package repositories." Microsoft never had the same -- until the PowerShell Gallery.
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By Adam Bertram
Azure Automation can be an excellent PowerShell script orchestration tool, though it has just a limited number of PowerShell modules. Luckily, we can upload our own modules, too.
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Lambda, the serverless computing platform from Amazon Web Services (AWS), now supports Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0, the cloud giant announced this month.
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Version 6.1 of PowerShell Core, Microsoft's scripting tool that's used for DevOps purposes, is now available, the company announced last week.
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By Adam Bertram
In today's IT organizations, it's critical for system admins to know how to automate processes. Luckily, we have tools like Azure Automation to help us out.
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By Adam Bertram
By using the various history commands in PowerShell, you can search for and easily execute any command that you have previously run in the same session.
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By Adam Bertram
Whether the string you're looking for inside a text file is a single word or a complicated pattern, PowerShell has the ability to find and replace just about anything.
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Microsoft recently announced that PowerShell Core 6.1 is expected to hit general availability at the end of August, but warned that compatibility with some Windows PowerShell modules will arrive later.
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By Boe Prox
Looking at the signature of a file quickly lets you know whether that file is really what it claims to be. Here's how to tap PowerShell to figure out the file signature.
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By Boe Prox
We've all been there: We start to work on a file that we think is available, only to find out that it's already opened and in use, meaning we have to wait until whatever process currently using the file has released its lock on it.
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By Adam Bertram
You may not think too often about how text is displayed in your PowerShell console, but under the covers, there's quite a bit going on.
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By Boe Prox
If PowerShell isn't already your go-to tool for reviewing your NIC configuration, it should be.
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By Boe Prox
Here's how to automate building a document in Microsoft Word. Clippy not required.
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By Adam Bertram
Making code adaptable is a key skill for any coder. Here's a primer on how to stretch function parameters to fit a variety of situations.
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By Boe Prox
Replace your legacy ipconfig switches with these cmdlets in the DNSClient module.
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By Adam Bertram
Sometimes using ValidateSet isn't enough -- for instance, when you have multiple functions with the same parameter that you need to perform a task on.
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By Boe Prox
Here's how to make your data more useful -- or even just more presentable -- using the Join and Split operators and the Split method.
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By Adam Bertram
Synchronous code execution is fine for small scripts, but for more time-consuming scripts, consider running your code in the background as a job. Here's how.