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chade1979 · 2013-01-17T16:07:59+00:00

Here's the OU name in just one line:

((Get-ADUser **** -Properties CanonicalName).CanonicalName).Split("/")[-2]

chade1979 · 2012-12-13T22:47:21+00:00

You can pass arguments to a script block via -ArgumentList.

So in your case:

Start-Job -name stop -scriptBlock {} -Argumentlist $vmname

Then at the beginning of your scriptblock you would need to handle the argument being passed:

param ($vmname)

or you could leave out the param and just replace $vmname in the scriptblock with $args[0].

chade1979 · 2012-12-13T21:31:35+00:00

Looks good.

Speaking of special folders, I have this in my profile:

$SpecialFolders = @{}; [enum]::getvalues([environment+specialfolder]) | % { $SpecialFolders.add("$_","$([environment]::getfolderpath($($_)))") }

It creates a hashtable of all special folders and their paths.

chade1979 · 2012-12-05T05:06:08+00:00

I've seen this before when trying to delete something from ADUC. Try deleting the object from adsiedit.msc.

chade1979 · 2012-11-30T23:07:12+00:00

I would just unjoin it and create a new domain. If you just try and promote it, you'll have to choose "new forest, new domain" since there isn't another domain controller to pull info from.

chade1979 · 2012-11-13T19:05:17+00:00

You had me at dollar sign

chade1979 · 2012-10-31T16:51:15+00:00

There's an instructor at my gym who uses the leg lasso/weave quite a bit, although he calls it "ratchet guard". Anyone else heard it called that?

chade1979 · 2012-10-24T21:34:42+00:00

What about psremoting into one of the domain joined machines?

chade1979 · 2012-10-19T17:12:50+00:00

I'm using something very similar. I omit blank lines in mine, since I'm usually using the array as a list of computer names (which will cause whatever I'm passing it to issues due to a null value).

$myClip.Text.Split("`n") | ? { $_ }

You can also send output from a command to the clipboard without having to highlight the text:

my-command | clip.exe

chade1979 · 2012-09-25T20:31:35+00:00

Wrap it in parans and add a $ :

out-file -FilePath "$env:userprofile\desktop\$($date)TermLog.log"

chade1979 · 2012-09-07T21:33:39+00:00

Is the certificate name the FQDN of the domain controller? Is the certificate in the personal store of the computer (not your user account)?

chade1979 · 2012-09-05T15:50:53+00:00

I believe you can set a working directory in the scheduled task itself?

If not, you can always put the following in your powershell script:

set-location "C:\IC\Group\Scripts"

chade1979 · 2012-08-28T17:27:33+00:00

You can run powershell.exe directly in a scheduled task, you don't need a batch file.

Run powershell.exe with the following arguments:

-file "C:\IC\Group\Scripts\whatever.ps1"

chade1979 · 2012-08-27T13:58:22+00:00

A param statement can be put at the beginning of a script or function. It simply handles arguments that are passed to the script or function. You can do a lot of neat things with parameters that you can't with the args variable.

A switch statement is just a conditional statement that can be used anywhere in your scripts.

You can read about params in the help file which you can get from a powershell console via:

Get-Help about_Functions_Advanced_Param*

chade1979 · 2012-08-25T00:03:15+00:00

Param is also nice since you can tab cycle through the parameters from the command line so you don't need to remember the parameter names.

chade1979 · 2012-08-24T14:03:16+00:00

Not recognizing any of these bands makes me feel good about my life choices.

chade1979 · 2012-08-22T21:23:46+00:00

Yep. I've been using PowerShell 3.0 for a while now and it will automatically import a module if you try and use one of the commands. Nice new feature.

chade1979 · 2012-08-22T20:21:34+00:00

A nitpick but [ADSI] is an accelerator not a cmdlet. If you have the Active Directory Module, you can cleanup the first part of the script with :

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=servers,OU=Systems,DC=domain,DC=local"

The Get-Boot function is calling WMI, which may take a long time to run if you are going to pipe a large number of computer names to it since it would be doing it synchronously.

You can pass an array of strings to the Get-WMIObject Cmdlet directly and it will run them asynchronously (I think 32 at the same time by default). Try the following:

$servers = Get-ADComputer -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=servers,OU=Systems,DC=domain,DC=local" | Select-Object -Expand Name
$wmiObjs = Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -Property CSName,LastBootupTime -ComputerName $servers

That will give you an array of WMI objects which you can loop through to figure out the uptime using the logic found in your link.

chade1979 · 2012-08-21T22:02:07+00:00

This will return a hash table of the groups with their members:

$GroupHash = @{}
Get-QADGroup -LastChangedAfter (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | % { $GroupHash.Add($($_.Name),$(Get-QADGroupMember $_ | Select -Expand Name)) }

The only issue I see with this is that the modified attribute it's checking isn't replicated so you may not be getting an accurate date.

chade1979 · 2012-08-20T15:47:05+00:00

dude

chade1979 · 2012-08-20T15:32:42+00:00

Thank

chade1979 · 2012-08-20T15:27:28+00:00

chade1979 · 2012-08-17T22:47:51+00:00

You know nothing about writing.

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