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Tag Archives: Active Directory
Techmentor San Francisco 2008
I finished up my slide decks last week for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 -April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear and see … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Training
Tagged Active Directory, ADSI, Automation, cmdlet, Exchange, MrRoboto, Techmentor, VBScript, WMI
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Conference Samples Available
The demos, updated slide decks and other stuff for the Fall Techmentor conference, as well as the 2 day PowerShell pre-conference event before WinConnections last week, are now available for download at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp. I think I spent half of November … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, Training
Tagged Active Directory, ADSI, Automation, MrRoboto, Techmentor, VBScript, WinConnections
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Congratulations to new PowerShell MVPs
Well deserved congratulations are in order for some new Microsoft PowerShell MVPs. Marco Shaw, who is also a PowerGadgets MVP, is a frequent contributer to ScriptingAnswers.com and maintains an active blog at http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/. Dmitry Sotnikov is one of the brains … Continue reading
More One Liners
I recently did a TipSheet column listing some of my favorite quick, one line commands. Reader Wayne was kind enough to share with me his list of oft-used one-liners which he graciously offered to share. I have not tested many … Continue reading
Get Active Directory User Information in PowerShell
One feature that PowerShell will likely be missing when it first ships is solid support for ADSI and working with Active Directory. You can use .NET DirectoryEntry objects but it feels more like programming and less like scripting. Another option … Continue reading
Techmentor: DSQuery and DSMod examples
During the command line scripting session, I demonstrated how to use the directory service command line tools like dsmod, dsquery and dsget. You can get syntax help by running ‘dsquery /?’ (or dsmod,dsadd,dsget). There’s a lot of help information so … Continue reading
