Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows four ways to create folders with Windows PowerShell, and he discusses the merits of each approach.
The 2012 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games Study Guide is a great resource that points to important sources for learning Windows PowerShell.
I am going to show a couple of very easy ways to change or reset a user's local or domain account password using PowerShell. You do not need any PowerShell modules. Just built in PowerShell will be used to change the password.
How to take a PowerShell command and turn it into a reusable function, and how to package multiple functions into a single 'toolbox' script.
A really great PowerShell Cheat Sheet: pin it to the wall next to your desk (thanks Jeffery Hicks for sharing!).
Microsoft PFE, Gary Siepser, shares a cool Windows Search trick to find Windows PowerShell scripts.
Scott Lowe takes the early preview version of PowerShell 3.0 for a spin and likes what he sees. Here are some of the best-looking new features from his test run.
PowerShell v3, available in the forthcoming Windows Server 8, packs some serious GUI, behind a barebones command-line interface.
With Windows Server 8 Microsoft introduces even more PowerShell Modules to support all kinds of features within the OS. Well see for your self below, I particularly like the yellow marked modules.
I recently had a requirement to audit the Share and NTFS permissions of a Windows File Server. PowerShell contains the Get-ACL cmdlet which makes retreving the NTFS permissions fairly straightforward, but for the Share permissions it is not so easy, but we can make use of WMI and the Win32_LogicalShareSecuritySetting class.
I regularly go onsite with enterprise customers of Microsoft and do Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) health checks. Recently, I have been rewriting many of my VBScripts into PowerShell scripts to help make the health check easier. I will be writing more as I go. In the meantime, I hope that you will find these scripts useful.
One big problem for companies that do not utilize an identity management system is stale user accounts. I have seen companies that have thousands of accounts for users who have not logged into the domain in years, or at all.
With Windows PowerShell and the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) module, the task of identifying and deleting these accounts is an easy one..
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to determine who has permissions to a shared folder.
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This blog contains basic PowerShell scripts. These aim to provide a simple searchable repository of basic PowerShell scripts that demonstrate how you can use PowerShell to access and exploit .NET, COM, WMI and other object types.
Troubleshooting Windows 7 may be easier than you think. There are several new Troubleshooting Packs included in Windows 7, along with an infrastructure that supports these and future types of Troubleshooting Packs.
Here's how to make your first PowerShell experience a good one right from the outset.
IT administrators use Windows PowerShell to automate commonly used server management tasks and they can do the same for desktops -- virtual or physical. Here are five quick links on using cmdlets to manage remote desktops in Microsoft, Citrix and VMware desktop environments.
Much of the time, there is no guarantee to the order in which Windows PowerShell returns objects. This blog explains how to fix that issue..
Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create deployment shares for for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1.
PowerShell v3 includes a brand new feature named Windows PowerShell Web Access. As the name indicates this makes it possible to use Windows PowerShell using a browser from a computer, in addition to mobile devices.
Don Jones is a popular IT author, speaker, trainer, and recipient of Microsoft MVP award. Don has been an expert in Windows PowerShell for many years. He developed the Microsoft PowerShell courseware and has taught PowerShell to more than 20,000 IT pros.
More of you are getting used to Windows PowerShell and realizing its advantages. With that in mind, this month’s column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell scripting, including how to build parameterized scripts.
The new Windows PowerShell is coming. Actually, Microsoft has just launched a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell version 3, although the final version 3 probably won’t ship until it comes out with Windows 8.
It also will be available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The CTP will install on those OSes.
I was asked by a PowerShell Rock Star, Shay Levy, to forward on my very first experiences with PowerShell. Why I started to use it in the first place and what resources I employed to solve my first scripting problems.
The Microsoft App-V Server SnapIn is a CodePlex project that provides a set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets that enable IT admins to easily manage and automate complex tasks in App-V Server.
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