Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches how to use Windows PowerShell to group and to format output. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about Windows PowerShell is that it allows you to work the way that you like to do so. The other day, I was making a…
Year: 2012
Use PowerShell and RBAC to Control Access to Exchange Server Cmdlets
Summary: Microsoft PFE, Bhargav Shukla, shows how to use Windows PowerShell and RBAC to control access to Exchange cmdlets. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We are joined today by guest blogger Bhargav Shukla. Bhargav Shukla is a senior premier field engineer—unified communications, with his primary focus on the Exchange Server platform. Bhargav has…
Use PowerShell to Troubleshoot Exchange Server Public Folders
Summary: Microsoft PFE, Seth Brandes, discusses using Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot a customer problem with Exchange Server public folders. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we are happy to have Seth Brandes as our guest blogger. Seth Brandes is a premier field engineer who works in Microsoft Services. He began his foray into…
Use the PowerShell Group-Object Cmdlet to Display Data
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches how to use the Windows PowerShell Group-Object cmdlet to organize data. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been using Windows PowerShell more these days. I find it really easy to use, and I like the way I can find things. But what I need is a better way to…
Order Your Output by Easily Sorting Objects in PowerShell
Summary: 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. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem with Windows PowerShell. It seems that it deliberately randomizes the output. I mean, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to…
Increase Your Productivity by Using the PowerShell Pipeline
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches you how to use the Windows PowerShell pipeline to increase your productivity and to avoid writing scripts. Hey, Scripting Guy! I keep hearing about the pipeline in Windows PowerShell, but I do not get it. I see commands, but I am not sure what they are actually doing….
Use PowerShell to Print Output Without Installing Print Drivers
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to print output from commands without installing print drivers. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If I have not said it recently, the Scripting Wife is cool! She is also a really good sport. Why do I say this? We are stuffed into the very back of a large airplane…
Use PowerShell to Choose a Specific Number of Random Letters
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell Get-Random cmdlet to choose a specific number of random letters. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. With the advent of the New Year, I am hard at work on the 2012 Scripting Games. This year there will be several improvements. I…
PowerShell Community and the Windows System Administration Tool
Summary: See how guest blogger, Rich Prescott, leveraged the Windows PowerShell community as he built his popular ArPosh Client System Administration tool. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We are really starting the new year off correctly. We have another very strong guest blogger today. Rich Prescott, is currently working as an infrastructure architect…
How to Find Active Directory Schema Update History by Using PowerShell
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to discover what schema updates have been applied to your Active Directory environment. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have as our guest blogger, Ashley McGlone. Ashley is a premier field engineer for Microsoft. He started writing code on a Commodore VIC20 back in 1982, and he’s been…