Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

• Introduction
  • Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge

• News
  • New AD cmdlets – the one step account creation works great
  • From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007
    • Windows PowerShell guide for beginners
    • Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help for Windows PowerShell
  • /n software will be releasing NetCmdlets at TechEd next week
    • They are giving away free PowerShell stickers
  • Ed Wilson’s book Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step
  • Jeffery Snover said in a blog post that PowerShell has had almost a million downloads in the first six months!

• Cmdlets of the week
  • Select-Object (Select)
  • Get-Acl
  • Import-Csv
• Resource
  • Mark’s Log – questforfire.spaces.live.com
  • Some great PowerShell posts, some of the latest ones are about managing tasks in outlook
    • Psexec server fix and paper airplanes
  • Blog post from Jeffery Snover that talks about companies, books, communities, etc
  • Technet Webcast: Microsoft Windows PowerShell: The Future of Server Administration
  • Scripting Guys
    • Windows PowerShell Owner’s Manual
    • PowerShell Quick Reference
    • Windows PowerShell Graphical Help File
    • Look on ThePowerShellGuy blog ( //o//)
• One-liners
  • sl c:winntsystem32
  • $new = Get-ChildItem -recurse | get-Acl |Where-Object {$_.sddl.contains(‘FA;;;SY)’) -eq $False}
  •  Security Descriptor Definition Language
  • This is Mark’s answer, check out his blog.  get-childitem -recurse | get-acl | where-object {$_.AccessToString -notlike “*SYSTEM Allow  FullCon*”}

• Gotchas
  • New-QADUser
  •  Make sure you set the samAccountName and the UPN