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Sep 25, 2015 • Stephen Owen

How to handle oAuth from PowerShell

One of the coolest features of PowerShell is the many tools we have available to work with services on the web, be they SOAP, REST, RPC or even WSDL services. It’s no question, PowerShell makes it very easy to pull down data from any of these places. Unfortunately, getting data from a service isn’t always as easy as embedding your credentials in a URL. In fact, some services require us to authenticate and ask the user for permission before giving up the goods.

Sep 23, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

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Automate enabling and disabling Lync / Skype for Business users

Hello PowerShell.org community, This is my first post here at PowerShell.org, and I have a goal of posting tips, tricks, articles, and solutions once a week. My first exposure to scripting was on my x486 computer. I would always create .bat files to launch my DOS based games from the root folder. I learned complex scripting through the use of VB Script, automating the roll out and updating of Windows 2000 desktops and servers.

Sep 21, 2015 • Mike Roberts

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PowerShell Scheduled Jobs and Tableau analytics

Here’s a brief rundown of how we leverage a few Cmdlets from the PSScheduledJob module to manage our Analytics stack. For those of us on the Analytics team at Pluralsight , PowerShell is the lynch-pin which binds our two worlds together. To manage the gaps inherent in all platforms (since one tool would be hard-pressed to cover all areas), we use PowerShell to link the worlds of Data and Analytics (and back).

Sep 17, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

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Take home from PowerShell Summit Europe

WOOHA it’s been a great week. I sat down last night my brain all fried and tried to compile a list of things to remember from the past week. There is much focus on “changing the mindset” of the community. Get into the DevOps mindset and become a toolmakers. This is my take-home from the conference. There’s no way to summarize all of the conference other than to say: Look forward to the videos on YouTube.

Sep 16, 2015 • Matt Laird

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Store Secured Password in PowerShell Script

Automation is awesome, but what if you need to run a script with elevated privileges? If you are following security best practices then the account you login with most likely doesn’t have the required elevated privileges. Storing your password in plain text in your scripts is no good either. So what do we do? There are several options and each has there place, but I’ll show you my favorite below. Check out the full article by clicking on the link below.

Sep 12, 2015 • Matt Laird

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Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory

Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory Everyone who has managed Active Directory knows that keeping it free of “stale” accounts is a tough task. Typically no one cares about this until it’s time for the Microsoft True Up. Then we’ve got to hustle to get rid of all these unused accounts before we have to pay for them again! Pre-PowerShell it was tough because well… you didn’t have POWERSHELL! Now the hardest part about finding these accounts is defining what stale means to your company.

Sep 11, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

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Working with PowershellGallery

After my two first posts (Multithreading using jobs, List users logged on to your machines) where I mentioned PowershellGallery.com a few times and after Warren talked about the Gallery a few days ago I felt like digging a little deeper to see if I was actually doing it right. So I wrote them an email and this was their reply: ————————– “Hi Jonas – The “limited preview” designation on the PowerShell Gallery is because we are doing significant development to the site.

Sep 11, 2015 • Don Jones

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DevOps: A Practical Example

If you look at DevOps as a means of removing hurdles between coders and users, there’s almost no better real-world, practical example than Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. If you’re not familiar with EBS, look into it - it’s kinda cool. EBS isn’t suitable for every situation, to be sure. It’s mainly useful for Linux VMs, running Web sites, in fact, which isn’t 100% of your workloads. But the idea is pretty awesome.

Sep 8, 2015 • Thomas Rayner, MVP

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Where Are My FSMO Roles?

Hello, PowerShell people! I’ve never posted on PowerShell.org before and so I feel as though I owe you a quick introduction before we dive into the tip I’d like to share with you. My name is Thomas Rayner and I am a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell. I’m also a systems administrator and degree program instructor. I volunteer a fair bit of time as the President of the Edmonton Microsoft User Group (EMUG).

Sep 8, 2015 • Matt Laird

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Find Location of Locked Out Accounts

I’m Locked Out, Help! If you’ve been a sys admin for more than a week you’ve probably heard this…“I’m locked-out, help!”. Normally the user has made their way to your cube and is impatiently tapping their foot waiting for you to magically solve there problem. So you find their account, reset their password and everything is right with the world…Or is it? Two minutes later they show up again because their account was locked-out before they even got back to their desk.

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