powershell

Windows PowerShell was released by Microsoft for Windows XP in 2007. It is an automation engine that consists of a scripting language and command line shell.


Powershell is integrated into the Microsoft.net Framework and generally used by system administrators for local and remote administrative tasks.


Powershell 2.0 was released with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and has since then been made available for previous Microsoft operating systems as well via the Windows Management Framework.


Powershell 2.0 added many new features including background jobs, remoting, modules or advanced functions.

You'll find bloggers talking about Powershell at sites like Windows Powershell Blog and Windows 7 News.

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• Get PC Name not working now

  
  Spiceworks Community — Authority: 454
  Hi Before Christmas, I thought I solved this issue with a post to this forum. But its not working now, much to my confusion. On the terminal server, I want to get the PC that the user had used to logon. Which is %clientname% In the attached script, Im getting the OU of that PC. For test purposes, Ive added some ...
  5 hours ago

• Scripting Guys Announce the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : The Microsoft Scripting Guys formally announce the 2012 Scripting Games featuring Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It must be spring—at least in the Charlotte, North Carolina area in the United States. Last week, I had the 2012 Scripting Games kick off meeting with ...
  9 hours ago

• Multiply PowerShell Strings to Customize Text Underlines

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Create a Windows PowerShell function that accepts pipelined input and creates a variable length underline that uses various characters. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things I really enjoy doing is reading the comments that are posted by various people on the Hey, Scripting Guy! ...
  1 day ago

• Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Guest blogger, Tim Bolton, shares a real world story that brings home the need to learn Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here, and it’s time for the Weekend Scripter. Today we have a guest blogger, Tim Bolton. Tim Bolton has been involved in the IT Pro community for over 18 ...
  2 days ago

• Use PowerShell to Fix Those Annoying NDR Emails

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Microsoft PFE, Norman Drews, shows how to use the Active Directory cmdlets and the Exchange cmdlets to clean up distribution groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome our guest blogger, Norman Drews. Norman is a Microsoft PFE, and I had the privilege to meet with him when I was speaking ...
  3 days ago

• Python/Pygame/PygCurse printing

  
  Spiceworks Community — Authority: 454
  Hey there guys Ive been busy with a personal project for the last few months. Its a database system to track my workshop stock (spare hard drives, memory, etc). I wrote it in Python because its just so easy to do a simple database and text output structure. Sadly this has captured the attention of the higher-ups ...
  4 days ago

• Use PowerShell to Parse XML Exchange Audit Results

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to parse XML-formatted Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 audit reports.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. The search results that return from the New-AdminAuditLogSearch cmdlet are pretty useless. Looking at all ...
  4 days ago

• Use PowerShell to Audit Changes Made to Exchange Server 2010

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Learn how to use a new Exchange Server 2010 cmdlet to audit via Windows PowerShell changes made to the server.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I am not sure this is a scripting question, but I need help, and you seem to like to help people. In fact, if you cannot help me, I might be looking for a new ...
  5 days ago

• Dew Drop–January 24, 2012 – (#1,249)

  
  Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Authority: 109
  Top Links Removing Regions Using Project Roslyn (Jason Bock) SQL Server 2012 launches March 7th… with a free virtual launch event (Greg Duncan) Resources for getting started with Backbone.js (Jarod Ferguson) Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One (Eric Lippert) Json.NET 4.0 Release 6 ...
  6 days ago

• Instalando Granja de Servidores SharePoint 2010

  
  MSMVPS.COM — Authority: 480
  Para un programador SharePoint es importante conocer la arquitectura de la plataforma y en ese sentido realizar un proceso de instalación de una granja SharePoint es un deber. En esta ocasión quiero compartir como lograr en una topología llamada Small Farm (Three Tier). Básicamente tenemos un software ...
  6 days ago

• Gain Remote Access to the Get-ExCommand Exchange Command

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Learn how to gain access to the Get-ExCommand Exchange command while in an implicit remote Windows PowerShell session.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I liked your idea about connecting remotely to Windows PowerShell on an Exchange Server. The problem is that I do not know all of the cmdlet names. ...
  6 days ago

• Learn How to Use PowerShell to Run Exchange Commands Remotely

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to run Exchange Server 2010 commands remotely by using implicit remoting.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I am having a problem with Exchange Server 2010. I have Windows PowerShell 2.0 installed on the server, but I am unable to connect and to do anything with ...
  1 week ago

• January meeting reminder

  
  Richard Siddaway's Blog — Authority: 115
  Just a quick reminder that on Tuesday 24 January the UK PowerShell Group presents a Live Meeting looking at PowerShell v3 CTP2   Details from here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/01/02/uk-powershell-group-january-2012.aspx
  1 week ago

• Use the Free PoshWSUS PowerShell Module for WSUS Administrative Work

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Learn how to use the free PoshWSUS Windows PowerShell module to administer your WSUS server. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We wrap up the weekend and the week with guest blogger, Boe Prox. In case you missed them, here are links for Boe’s blogs: Day 1: Introduction to WSUS and PowerShell ...
  1 week ago

• Export SharePoint group members using SharePoint 2010 PowerShell

  
  SharePoint Tips & Samples — Authority: 79
  The script for exporting groups membership is following: $site = Get-SPSite "http://mysites" $filename = "c:\users.txt" foreach($group in $site.RootWeb.SiteGroups) {     "Group:" + $group.Name | Out-File $filename -Append     foreach ($user in $group.Users)     {         " User:" + ...
  1 week ago

• Introduction to PoshWSUS, a Free PowerShell Module to Manage WSUS

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Guest blogger, Boe Prox, discusses the development of the free Windows PowerShell module that he wrote to manage WSUS. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we are celebrating our 2000 th Hey, Scripting Guy! blog. I think that in the spirit of community, it is appropriate that today we also ...
  1 week ago

• Get Windows Update Status Information by Using PowerShell

  
  Hey Scripting Guy! — Authority: 458
  Summary : Learn how to use the WSUS Update Scope with Windows PowerShell to get update status information for client computers. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. What a week. Boe Prox has certainly been sharing quite a bit of Windows PowerShell goodness. In case you have missed them, here are links to the ...
  1 week ago

• Need help with Powershell script to remove entries from IIS log file

  
  IT answers — Authority: 437
  Question Edited by TechTalker
  1 week ago

• Last logon time with a script

  
  Richard Siddaway's Blog — Authority: 115
  Just for completeness I decided to look at the same problem using a script.  This is more complex. function Get-SCADUserLastLogon { param ( [string] $userName ) $root = [ADSI] "" $search = [adsisearcher] $root $search . Filter = ...
  1 week ago

• Last logon time with a script

  
  MSMVPS.COM — Authority: 480
  Just for completeness I decided to look at the same problem using a script.  This is more complex. function Get-SCADUserLastLogon { param ( [string] $userName ) $root = [ADSI] "" $search = [adsisearcher] $root ...
  1 week ago

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