After having deployed Google Chrome to several of our terminal servers I discovered the Google Update tasks that are automatically installed. Since our servers do not have direct access to the internet anyway I thought I’d get rid of the tasks. Naturally I can do this one server at a … Continue reading
I have added some new features to the Export-Xlsx function. One of these is the Transpose parameter, which allows you to transpose the table. And optionally you can set the value of a property of the input object as column title. Two other new features are on the cosmetic side. … Continue reading
Being satisfied with being able to easily export PowerShell objects directly to Excel I was wondering if I could do the reverse as well. Of course, importing from Excel would be rather arbitrary once you know how to export to Excel. Simply reverse the process. Basically that is true. However, … Continue reading
While I was happy with the existing Export-Csv Cmdlet I missed some of the Excel features, like autofit and autofilter. Sure, I can open any CSV file in Excel and then apply the autofilter and autofit to get what I want. But that would mean more clicking. So I thought … Continue reading
Another revision of my function for querying Active Directory nested groupmembership. While fooling around with parameter sets was interesting, it isn’t exactly the best way to deal with unknown input. Again, with the help of Google I found out more about how to deal with user input and found out … Continue reading
The default Microsoft ActiveDirectory module doesn’t really support reading or writing Terminal Services properties. As you can see from the following example:
1 2 3 | (0004) § {~} (Get-ADUser johndoe -Properties userParameters).userParameters CtxCfgPresent P?CtxCfgPresent?????CtxCfgFlags1???? D?CtxWFProfilePath?????????????????????????????????? (0005) § {~} |
On the other hand, the Quest ActiveDirectory cmdlets do support this. However, I prefer not to use third party add-ons if it isn’t absolutely necessary. So with … Continue reading
Nice. Very nice.
In the latest incarnation of my Get-ADGroupmembership function I’ve used Parameter Sets to distinguish between input received from the user. In the Param() statement you can define which parameters your function accepts. But what if you want different processing for different input types? For Get-ADGroupmembership I want to accept String … Continue reading
Being able to retrieve nested groupmembership for users was nice. But I also wanted to be able to retrieve this for groups. In researching the possibilities PowerShell has to offer I’ve found some more remarkable techniques that display the flexibility of PowerShell. And as such, I have rewritten my Get-NestedGroups … Continue reading
When I started with PowerShell just a couple of months ago I was trying out lots of things on the PowerShell console. And after trial and many errors I finally got the results that I wanted. However, the following day I often found myself scratching my head wondering how I … Continue reading