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Jan 22, 2016 • Steve Parankewich

DevOps

Create Windows Shortcuts or Favorites With PowerShell

Creating windows shortcuts are usually done through the New Shortcut Wizard, MSI files, Group Policy Objects, or even a simple file copy. Shortcut files are .lnk files that Microsoft Windows uses for shortcuts to local files while .url is used for destinations such as web sites. As we all are aware, the .lnk filename extension is hidden in Windows Explorer even when “Hide extensions for known file types” is unchecked in File Type options.

Jan 14, 2016 • Steve Parankewich

DevOps

Improve Delivery of PowerShell Tools or Version Controlled Files

I am back this week with a quick how-to article on delivering, installing, or launching version controlled files. In the past I ran into problems when having administrators launch my PowerShell tools from a network share. The performance was slow when launching it across the WAN, and the file would often be locked when I tried to replace it with a newer version. I came up with a solution to the problem by using none other than PowerShell.

Nov 24, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Keeping Windows PowerShell Help Up To Date

After a two week hiatus I am back this week with a quick write up on how to automate the updating of PowerShell help. Update-Help should be one of the first things typed in PowerShell on a new workstation build. I jump into the topic and demonstrate how to automate the updating of the help files from the Internet or from a local network share. You can view the full article over at PowerShellBlogger.

Oct 30, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Join Computer to Domain with Specified Computer Name and OU

I addressed a reader requested script for my article this week. PowerShell gives you the ability to add computers to Active Directory right from the command line with the built in PowerShell commandlets. This was introduced with PowerShell version 3 and can be used to automate imaging processes or to prompt an agent for the desired computer name and organizational unit. This is useful since a lot of organizations will use specific OUs for computers according to location or department.

Oct 23, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Find any E-Mail Address or Proxy Address In Active Directory

I am back this week with some more Exchange and Unified Communications goodness. This is another request I see a lot, someone want’s to know where an e-mail address is assigned. This opens up the possibilities of user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, distribution lists, public folders, conference rooms, contacts or resources. I have also seen duplicate e-mail addresses being assigned outside of Exchange causing delivery failures. I take a look at how you can quickly find any e-mail address in your environment along with partial searches of e-mail addresses.

Oct 12, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Automate Sip Address and UPN name changes in Lync / Skype for Business

Name changes are a common occurrence in the world of IT and usually the primary concern is the e-mail address. Exchange e-mail address policies will handle this for us but often times the Sip Address and User Principal Name are left behind. I tackle these changes with an automated way of changing the Lync / Skype for Business sip address (also known as sign-in address) and User Principal Name to match the e-mail address.

Sep 3, 2015 • Adam Platt

PowerShell for Developers

Use Import-LocalizedData to Internationalize your Scripts

Whether you’re working with an enterprise client with a global presence or building a tool that you want to share with the world, you may find yourself wanting to build support for multiple languages into your scripts. The Import-LocalizedData Cmdlet is a simple and powerful way to achieve this. I put up a pair of posts about my recent experience with a globalization effort and how we were able to get a lot of functionality with only a few lines of code.

Jun 5, 2015 • Matthew Hodgkins

Tips and Tricks

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows

Take a minute think about how many PowerShell scripts you have written for yourself or your team. Countless functions and modules, helping to automate this or fix that or make your teams lives easier. You spend hours coding, writing in-line help, testing, packaging your script, distributing it to your team. All that effort, and then a lot of the time the script is forgotten about! People just go back to doing things the manual way.

Oct 25, 2014 • Don Jones

News

Our NaNoWriMo Challenge: Write a PowerShell Article

In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I wanted to offer a smaller, and more unique, challenge. Send me a PowerShell article. Seriously. My name is Don Jones, and this is PowerShell.org, so you can probably figure out how to contact me. Send me an article between 800 and 3,000 words (including code) in Microsoft Word format. Don’t attach any scripts. Please keep the formatting super-simple: paste code from the PowerShell ISE, and use Word’s default styles otherwise.

Mar 14, 2014 • Steven Murawski

PowerShell for Admins

Building Desired State Configuration Custom Resources

Now that we’ve suitably rested, let’s get back to working with Desired State Configuration. Now, there are some basic features to work with that ship by default and the PowerShell team has been blogging some additional resources, but in order to do some really interesting thing with DSC, we’ll need to create our own resources. The High Points Overview Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) Creating Configurations (one of two, two of two) Configuring Clients Building Custom Resources (this post) Packaging Custom Resources Advanced Client Targeting The DSC Resource Structure DSC resources are (at their most basic) a PowerShell module.

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