PowerShell outputs objects but sometimes you need just the values. The –Expandproperty parameter of select-object can pull the values from a property. Compare: £> Get-VM | select Name Name —- Arista SphinxLx01 W12R2DSC W12R2OD01 W12R2SCDC01 W12R2SUS W12R2TGT W12R2Web01 W12R2Web02 with £> Get-VM | select -ExpandProperty Name Arista SphinxLx01 W12R2DSC W12R2OD01 W12R2SCDC01 W12R2SUS W12R2TGT […]
Way back in this post https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/finding-users-who-cannot-change-password/ I showed how to discover those users who can’t change their passwords. I was recently asked how to find those users that can change their password. Active Directory doesn’t store this information directly but the CannotChangePassowrd attribute is false for those users that can change their password £> […]
Once you have your IPAM server configured you can start to read the data its collected. If you are working against a remote IPAM server than you need to create a CIM session to that machine before doing anything else. $cs = New-CimSession -ComputerName W12R2SUS You can discover the domain you’re working against £> […]
One neat feature of the April 2015 WMF 5.0 preview is that you can copy files over a remoting session. First create a session to a remote machine $cs = New-PSSession -ComputerName W12R2SUS Define the source and destination for the copy. Use –ToSession to determine the remoting session you will use to determine the […]
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IPAM stands for IP Address Management. It’s a feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 that enables you manage your DHCP and DNS servers as a whole rather than at the individual service or server level. Installation of IPAM follows the standard approach for any Windows feature. Note that you can install IPAM on a […]
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The range operator allows you to reference a range of numbers 1..10 is equivalent to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 If you want anything other than numbers you’re stuck as the range operator only works with integers though you can have a decrementing list 10..1 65..74 | foreach {[char]$psitem} would be A – J If […]
PowerShell DSC for Linux has moved out of CTP and v1 is available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46919 You will find more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/05/06/powershell-dsc-for-linux-is-now-available.aspx You will need to download OMI version 1.0.8-1 which is available from https://collaboration.opengroup.org/omi/documents.php?action=show&dcat=&gdid=32721 OMI has to be installed on the Linux box before the DSC package A […]
A software inventory module is now included with the April 2015 WMF 5.0 preview £> Get-Command -Module SoftwareInventoryLogging | select Name Name —- Get-SilComputer Get-SilComputerIdentity Get-SilData Get-SilLogging Get-SilSoftware Get-SilUalAccess Get-SilWindowsUpdate Publish-SilData Set-SilLogging Start-SilLogging Stop-SilLogging Windows updates are always a good place to start poking into your systems £> Get-Command Get-SilWindowsUpdate -Syntax Get-SilWindowsUpdate [[-ID] <string[]>] […]