Preventing a user from modifying their Account
By Jonny's space Since moving to the current release in the Outlook.com datacenter, new PowerShell cmdlets have become available that facilitate the creation of security groups, with which a Tenant...
View ArticleDisable the Instant Messaging Widget in Outlook Live - Windows Live
Some schools however dislike the use of messenger, and would prefer to have this widget removedā¦ this can be achieved in the all powerful PowerShell (thanks to Kumarswamy Valegerepura from the Exchange...
View ArticlePowershell to connect to outlook live@edu
$Cred = Get-Credential$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $Cred -Authentication Basic...
View Articleencrypt password in script
Hi,is there any way to encrypt a plain password in a ps1 script when the scriptis not running with the user, the encrypted password was created in a txt file?The script is running with Enterprise...
View ArticlePowershell save as and name as variable
Hello,I recently discovered powershell and I am quite impressed with what I can do with it. I found this code online (from this site actually) and need some manipulation to it.Ā $code ='$helper =...
View ArticleFinding Servers on Network Using SSL Certificates
Hello.Ā Recently MS announced that they would no longer support SSL encryption less than 1024.Ā We have some internal servers on our network that have encryption that is less.Ā I need to locate all of...
View ArticleUsing GWMI
Hi,I am using the following to retrieve the version of windows from multiple servers, it works fine, but how can I modify it so that it also lists the server name ? The server names are in the...
View ArticleStart-Transcript output to file only and not to file and console
HelloWhen running a PowerShell script usingĀ Start-Transcript with in the script, is it possible stop the console output once Start-Transcript is running.I cannot use powershell.exe -file myfile.ps1...
View ArticleSelect-String question
I am writing a PS Select-String to extract out all SQL SELECT statementsĀ from a text file.I am looking extract all SELECT statements. Each SELECT statement terminates with a ;Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā character.I can...
View ArticleLearn Windows PowerShell In a Month of Lunches: 7.4 Pipeline Input...
Hello Don,The example in 7.4 is as follows: Get-Process -name b* | Stop-ServiceIn the explanation, points 6 refers to the -Name parameter of 'Get-Service' and point 7 says that 'Get-Service' will...
View ArticleCan I open notepad etc. on remote server/computer using PS?
Hi guys,I am trying to learn power shell to be more effective at work. Basically I know little bit of Exchange PSĀ cmdlets and small scripts but I want to learn more.What I am trying to figure out is if...
View ArticleConsole output in cmd.exe, and powershell.exe through C++
OS: Windows 8 x64 Rus;IDE: MS Visual Studio 2012 Enu;Language: C++I know a simple way for correct displaying of localized chars on Cmd.exe. But how can I do same for Powershell.exe?My...
View ArticleHow can I run a script within a pipeline
Hi,I have the following line of code that is called from a batch file and scheduled to run at a certain time of the day.Get-Content d:\servers.txt | .\Retreive-Network.ps1 | Out-DataTableIt does not...
View ArticleStill waiting for my limited edition (handsigned) copy of powershell V3 lunches
Don, sorry to bother you with this but maybe you have some answers?On august 1st I ordered and paypalled for theĀ "PowerShell in a Month of Lunches" Limited Edition 2 Book Lunch SetItem# LUNCHPAK, since...
View ArticleChange credentials when running powershell script
Hello,I have a powershell script to get the drive sizes of servers specified in a text document. The problem I have is that several of our servers are in a DMZ and require different login...
View ArticleGetting the number of actual physical disks in the HP RAID using WMI
Hello All,I wounder if someone can help me with the following question please.I have a number of HP DL Servers which have the useual RAID setsLets say I have two physical HDD in a RAID 1 (mirror...
View ArticleConnecting to a message queue
For a while, I've been testing a message queue using the following code:$q = new-object system.messaging.messagequeue($qname)$msgs = $q.getallmessages()Yesterday, it quit working. By fiddling around, I...
View ArticlePSCustomObject and Select-Object Expandproperty
Hi there!I created the following pscustomobject with a nested pscustomobject. Interestingly after Select-Object -Expandproperty the source object is changed. Do you have an answer on that?# Create...
View ArticleSharing Credentials Securely with other users for PoSh scripts
I've definitely come by this before on the internet but I can't for the life of me find what I found before... Don Jones has mentioned in one of his workshop videos the ability to write a tool, give it...
View ArticleEarly Filtering of Win32_NTLogEvent class
Hello All,Can someone please help with the following query :)if I do the following I have to wait until all warning events are collected by WMI before they are then passed down the pipeline to select...
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