Read Text Files Faster than Get-Content
This was a fun little script I threw together after a particular conversation came up at Spiceworks. If you’ve worked with PowerShell long you’ve used Get-Content to read a file. 99% of the time, it’s fine and you just continue on with life. This blog post is about that 1% when Get-Content is SLOW. The .NET IO.Streamreader is where people turn to speed things up so I decided to create a function around it that worked much like Get-Content does. This is it’s story.
Setting the Manager Field in Active Directory
One thing I like to do in Active Directory is set the Manager field. To be honest, I’m not sure why I do this because we’re not using it, it’s just something I do. I guess you could call it future proofing. But there is a problem with this and that’s what do you do when a Manager leaves the company? There’s no easy way to pick up their direct reports and transfer them to a new manager. Until now.
More Advanced Functions
Want to add some more functionality to our scripts and functions? Want your scripts to operate like the standard Powershell cmdlet’s, with the same Common Parameters? Well you can, and it’s not difficult at all. Read on to add these abilities to your scripts!
Functions That Use the Pipeline
Earlier this week I talked about creating HTML reports from within Powershell, using the ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet. One of the technique’s I used was a custom function I wrote called Set-AlternatingRows which took the table created by ConvertTo-HTML and alternated the row colors. This was a great exercise in using Functions and the Pipeline and I wanted to talk about that today.
Functions – When and how?
Recently I was reworking a script for someone at Spiceworks, you can read about it here. But some interesting things came up and I wanted to talk about it here. It’s about functions, and when and how you should use them. Read on to hear my take on the subject.
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