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• James Petty
PowerShell for Admins

So you want to start a User Group

But where do you begin? I’ve blogged about this from the reversed perspective on my own blog about finding user groups with a small section about what you can do if your thinking about getting one off the ground which you can read at http://blog.kilasuit.org/2016/04/17/how-to-find-local-user-groups-events-my-experience/ and it was only natural to eventually blog from the other side too although this has come up a bit earlier than I had planned to but alas it gets it done As the Coordinator for the UK PowerShell User Groups I learned a few things the hard way with setting up a user group and here are just a few things that you will need to get sorted first which will hopefully help you on your way.

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• n2501r
PowerShell for Admins

Media Sync: Organize Your Photos and Videos with PowerShell

Do you have photos and videos that you have taken over the years that are scattered all over the place? Do you want to have all your photos and videos organized? Do you want all your photos and videos to have a standardized naming scheme? If you answered YES to these questions, then this is the post for you. In this post, I will provide you with the PowerShell code and examples for how to use the Media Sync script.

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• n2501r
PowerShell for Admins

NetNeighbor Watch: The PowerShell Alternative To Arpwatch

In this post, we are going to setup NetNeighbor Watch on a Raspberry Pi. NetNeighbor Watch can keep an eye on your network and send you an email when a new host is discovered. NetNeighbor Watch is done completely in PowerShell. The results are very similar to those of arpwatch. NetNeighbor Watch is for anyone that wants more visibility into the wireless or wired devices on their network. We will also setup a weekly email report with all of the known hosts on your network.

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• n2501r
PowerShell for Admins

Creating a PowerShell Module to Improve Your Code

Do you have PowerShell code that you reuse in your scripts over and over? Do you have server names hard coded in variables? Are you using a text file or CSV file to import server names? Do you find yourself only utilizing one server out of a cluster of servers to make your PowerShell commands? These are the questions I asked myself and the answer used to be YES. In this post, I will go over how you can store your infrastructure server information in a SQL database and call that data from a custom PowerShell module.

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• n2501r
PowerShell for Admins

Manage Citrix Tags with PowerShell

Managing Citrix tags can be a long painful process if done the traditional way through Citrix Studio, that is what drove me to PowerShell for this task. Citrix Studio is a great tool, but it can be very time consuming especially if you have to do bulk tag actions. Citrix tags can be used in several methods, but I have focused on desktop tagging. This post will cover the following scenarios:

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• n2501r
PowerShell for Admins

Simple PowerShell GUI

Over the years, I have supported and created multiple types of GUIs. I finally decided a few years ago to create a very simple menu driven PowerShell GUI. I wanted something that was very powerful yet very simple to maintain. I really enjoy automating manual administrative tasks, so that is what drove this project in the first place. Before I created the menu driven PowerShell GUI, I had directories and directories of very specific scripts to do specific tasks.

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• Mike Kanakos
PowerShell for Admins

Iron Scripter: Learn PowerShell through code challenges

Hello, friends! Today I want to talk about the Iron Scripter code challenges and the accompanying website. The challenges are excellent for practicing challenging concepts. What’s that you say? Not familiar with Iron Scripter? Let’s get you up to speed. Iron Scripter: A brief history lesson The Iron Scripter website is part of the PowerShell.org family and provides material for the Iron Scripter challenge that takes place at PowerShell Summit each year.

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• tobor79
Tips and Tricks

Not So Intutive PowerShell Behavior

The below link leads to the module I am writing about in this blog post. LINK TO POWERSHELL MODULE At my place of work a task needed to be completed that would allow us IT administrators to set the default lock screen image for our devices. Group Policy was my first thought however it was to broad of a solution. The rules basically became, set the default lock screen on some of the newer laptops and if a default lock screen has been manually chosen by a user; don’t change it.

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