We will be getting extra capacity for the PowerShell Summit NA 2015 in Charlotte. The extra places should become available 11 January 2015 – see http://powershell.org/wp/2014/12/30/powershell-summit-n-a-2015-additional-capacity/ for details. Please check the powershell.org site for further news
Archive for December, 2014
PowerShell Summit NA 2015
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 31, 2014 Comments Off on PowerShell Summit NA 2015 |PowerShell review of 2014
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 31, 2014 Comments Off on PowerShell review of 2014 |See my review of 2014 from a PowerShell perspective on the Scripting Guy blog – http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/12/31/2014-a-powershell-year-in-perspective.aspx
My recent post on date conversions seems to have generated a fair bit of confusion and discussion. The original task was to read in a string from a CSV file that contained a date in UK format – DD/MM/YYYY and reformat it to a string is US format – MM/DD/YYYY As I showed you […]
ANR and AD searches
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 30, 2014 Comments Off on ANR and AD searches |A comment on this post - http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/using-givenname-and-surname-instead-of-samaccountname/ suggested using ANR – Ambiguous Name Resolution as a method of searching AD. ANR provides a fuzzy search mechanism for AD – think wildcard search. If you perform an ANR search you’ll get anything matches – using your input as the root of the wildcard search – […]
Using GivenName and Surname instead of samAccountName
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 29, 2014 Comments Off on Using GivenName and Surname instead of samAccountName |A recent comment on this post – https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2762&action=edit – asked about using the given name and surname rather than the samAccountName in Get-ADUser. Get-ADUser has 4 options when using the –Identity parameter: Account name = samAccountNmae Distinguished Name GUID Security identifier = SID. Using the given name and surname. on the surface doesn’t seem possible […]
Saw a question regarding the conversion of dates in UK format DD/MM/YYYY to US format MM/DD/YYYY Using 25 December 2014 as an example If you have a dat in US format you can do this £> $sd = ’12/25/2014′ £> $d = [datetime]$sd £> $d 25 December 2014 00:00:00 $d = [datetime]$sd creates […]
Merry Christmas from the PowerShell team
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 23, 2014 Comments Off on Merry Christmas from the PowerShell team |The PowerShell team have produced wave 9 of the DSc resource kit – just in time for Christmas – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/12/17/another-holiday-present-from-the-powershell-team-dsc-reskit-wave-9.aspx This wave contains a number of new resources and some updates to existing resources including the Exchange resource. You can download the latest version of the resource kit from https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d The team’s blog post states […]
European Summit 2015 call for topics #2
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 22, 2014 Comments Off on European Summit 2015 call for topics #2 |The call for topics for the European PowerShell Summit is still open – http://powershell.org/wp/2014/11/24/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/ Please submit your topics by the deadline of 11 January 2015. A few people have suggested subjects for topics they would like to see: Azure automation with SAM and/or workflows SCCM advanced scripting DSC advanced scripting Pester Test Driven Deployment […]
Delivering PowerShell code with the November preview
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 21, 2014 Comments Off on Delivering PowerShell code with the November preview |Step one of investigating OneGet and PowerShellGet – install the latest preview. I have the environment I used for the demos at the European PowerShell Summit with a machine set up for DSC. Its currently running the September preview: £> $PSVersionTable Name Value —- —– PSVersion 5.0.9814.0 WSManStackVersion 3.0 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1 CLRVersion 4.0.30319.34014 BuildVersion 6.4.9814.0 […]
Selecting AD properties
Posted by: richardsiddaway | December 17, 2014 Comments Off on Selecting AD properties |Saw a question on the forums about selecting name properties using the Microsoft AD cmdlets. By default Get-AdUser returns a limited subset of properties: £> Get-ADUser -identity richard DistinguishedName : CN=Richard,CN=Users,DC=Manticore,DC=org Enabled : True GivenName : Name : Richard ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : 7c42be70-c6b2-401f-8296-46de9ee7446c SamAccountName : Richard SID : S-1-5-21-195014076-723736408-1406369008-1104 Surname : UserPrincipalName : […]
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