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  The recording, slides and demo script from the session on CIM cmdlets – Tuesday 27 March is available https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212955 Enjoy

The agenda for the PowerShell Deep Dive next month has just been published on the PowerShell team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/03/26/schedule-for-the-upcoming-powershell-deep-dive-and-a-few-videos-from-frankfurt.aspx If you are already booked to go – looking forward to meeting you.  If you’re thinking of going last years event was amazing. If you are interested in PowerShell it is the place to be

A question on the forum about the default properties returned by Get-ADUser started me thinking about the differences between the Microsoft cmdlets and the Quest cmdlets. So for starters the default display: Get-ADUser richard Get-QADUser richard Get-AdUser Get-QADUser DistinguishedName DN Enabled   GivenName   Name Name ObjectClass Type ObjectGUID   SamAccountName   SID   Surname […]

Quick reminder that the UK user group meeting is on Tuesday 27 March @ 7.30 BST.  Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/03/06/uk-powershell-group-march-2012.aspx   The meeting is on the new CIM functionality in PowerShell v3.  This is a need to know technology as much of the new PowerShell functionality in Windows Server 8 is based on this. Please double […]

A question was raised on the forums about bulk updated of user information.  This is an example of how to handle it A CSV file was created Import-Csv -Path "C:\Scripts\AD Examples\Users\bulkchangetest.csv" | Format-Table –AutoSize   userid JobTitle  Cost Center HireDate       —— ——–  ———– ——–       usera  JobTitleA 1001001     1 January 2011 userb  JobTitleB 1001002     1 February […]

I heard at the beginning of the week that I’ve been granted a speaker slot at the PowerShell Deep Dive next month – http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2012/ I’ll be speaking on creating cmdlets from WMI objects using a new feature in PowerShell v3 that is so cool it could start a new Ice Age Look forward to seeing […]

Question on the forums related to folder sizes and last write time Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\PersonalData\MyBooks\PowerShell and WMI" -Recurse | where { $_.PSIsContainer} | foreach { $size = Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName | measure -Sum Length | select -ExpandProperty Sum Add-Member -InputObject $($_) -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Size -Value $size $_ | select Fullname, LastWriteTime, @{N="Size(MB)"; E={[math]::Round(($_.Size/1mb), 2)}} […]

In the last post which looked at finding user accounts that had been deleted I had this syntax for the Microsoft cmdlets Get-ADObject -Filter {isDeleted -eq $true -and name -ne "Deleted Objects" } -IncludeDeletedObjects | Format-List Name, Distinguishedname   This had a mistake that I missed. It will return all deleted objects.  The syntax should […]

User accounts get deleted – sometimes on purpose and sometimes its more of a…  oops You can find accounts that have been deleted like this "`nMicrosoft" Get-ADObject -Filter {isDeleted -eq $true -and name -ne "Deleted Objects" } -IncludeDeletedObjects | Format-List Name, Distinguishedname "`nQuest" Get-QADUser -Tombstone -SizeLimit 3000 | Format-Table Name, DN -AutoSize "`nScript" $data = […]