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Convert a String to a PowerShell Property Name

Posted on March 25, 2014March 28, 2014

Over the last few years I’ve written and presented a bit on the idea of turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. We have a lot of great CLI based tools that are still worth using. What I’ve done is come up with tools and techniques for turning their output into an object that can…

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Waynes World of Tips

Posted on September 22, 2008August 5, 2009

I’ve blogged in the past about Wayne Martin and his outstanding list of command line tips. These are one line commands, some complex some simple, that you can use to accomplish a wide range of task. The overall number of tips is to 425 and Wayne recently reorganized them into 7 categories to make it…

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More CLI One-Liners

Posted on May 6, 2008July 2, 2013

In the past I’ve posted a collection of command one-liners that get a ton of work done with (relatively) minimal effort. Many of these have come from Wayne Martin. I’ve been behind in my blogging while book writing, but I wanted to make sure you checked out his latest list at: http://waynes-world-it.blogspot.com/2008/04/useful-command-lines.html Technorati Tags: Automation,…

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Wayne’s World of IT

Posted on March 7, 2008July 2, 2013

One of my more popular blog entries is the one I did about CMD one-liners. These are little tidbits of commands that can get a lot done. The list came from a reader and I was happy to share. Wayne has now started a blog Wayne’s World of IT which will carry on this theme…

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Updated Group Reporter

Posted on March 4, 2008July 2, 2013

A few of my recent Mr. Roboto columns have been about group auditing. I first published an HTA that would report on group membership last December. Astute reader Matt V. found a bug with the way nested group memberships were being reported. Or in this case, not being reported. It turns out that if a…

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Explore Your World

Posted on December 11, 2007August 5, 2009

This week’s Windows Tip Sheet column is about opening an Explorer window from the command prompt. One of my readers sent me an email about using this tip in Vista: I’m currently running Vista and when I type “explorer.exe /e, %cd%” I get the same results as “explorer.exe /e /root, %cd%”.  So is /root really…

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Revisit an old friend

Posted on December 18, 2006August 5, 2009

I have a new blog at the SAPIEN blog that is a visit to an old friend, DosKey. Now, before you dismiss this as old-fashioned, take a moment to read the article and try it out. If you spend a lot of time at a command prompt, DosKey can make you more efficient. You can…

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Batch File Logs

Posted on November 22, 2006August 5, 2009

I’ve always liked creating audit logs in my VBScript work, but could never figure out how to create a nicely formatted log from a batch file. Now I have. See http://sapien.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/20/2513469.html for the details. Technorati Tags:Batch Scripting

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More One Liners

Posted on November 13, 2006July 2, 2013

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 of these personally, but you always test things in a non-production environment anyway, right? The…

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Techmentor: FOR examples

Posted on March 21, 2006August 5, 2009

The FOR command is one of the most important commands you can use as a Windows administrator. I have a short article on the command you can download at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm (grab the FOR Essentials link) . Here are few of the examples I used in the Commandline Script session. (By the way, if you’d like…

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Techmentor: DSQuery and DSMod examples

Posted on March 21, 2006August 5, 2009

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 you’ll probably want to pipe the results using More (dsquery /? | more) You can…

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CLI 101 – FOR

Posted on February 10, 2006August 5, 2009

I’ve long maintained that the FOR command is one of most basic commands every administrator should know. I have a short tutorial you can download at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm Here are some other examples on using the FOR command. Let’s say you have some command line utility that will take a computer name as a parameter, such…

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