A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory

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PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released

In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





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  Select-String


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  Set-Content


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  Measure-Command

Resources: PowerShell newsgroup Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management Tips:

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Quoting rules

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Double quotes - variables are expanded and can contain text right after it

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Uses of backtick or backquote `

Escapes the next character

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Example “`$user is $user”

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Can be used to continue to the next line

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`n is newline

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`r is a carriage return

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`t is a tab

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`a is an alert

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`b is a backspace

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' or "

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`0 is null

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`is a single backtick

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Singe quotes “What you see is what you get"even escape characters are ignored

PowerShell moment:

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  I talked about creating 150 user accounts with the new Quest cmdlets


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  I talked about doing a mass Group Policy update using PowerShell to update the gpttmpl.inf files







One Liner:





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Select-string \domainnetlogon -pattern time

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(Select-string \domainnetlogon -pattern time).count