A podcast about Windows PowerShell.
News
- Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory
- PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released
In this show I discussed the cmdlets:
- Select-String
- Set-Content
- Measure-Command
Resources:
PowerShell newsgroup
Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management
Tips:
- Quoting rules
- Double quotes – variables are expanded and can contain text right after it
- Uses of backtick or backquote `
- Escapes the next character
- Example “`$user is $user”
- Can be used to continue to the next line
- `n is newline
- `r is a carriage return
- `t is a tab
- `a is an alert
- `b is a backspace
- `’ or `”
- `0 is null
- “ is a single backtick
- Singe quotes “What you see is what you get”even escape characters are ignored
PowerShell moment:
- I talked about creating 150 user accounts with the new Quest cmdlets
- I talked about doing a mass Group Policy update using PowerShell to update the gpttmpl.inf files
One Liner:
- Select-string \domainnetlogon -pattern time
- (Select-string \domainnetlogon -pattern time).count
