Exporting User Information
Need to export user information to a CSV? Perhaps as part of your termination user process? Incredibly easy with PowerShell, let’s see how to do it.
Set-ShutdownComputers – Without Confirmation
A while back I wrote a script that would restart a computer, but require a very firm confirmation from the administrator. Two levels of confirmation, in fact and it’s been a fairly popular post on the blog too. Recently someone asked for a similar script to work off of a set of computers, and considering the work I’ve been doing recently with the pipeline I thought this was an ideal time to revisit that script and add some functionality. And remove the confirmations because seriously, what could go wrong?
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.
Powershell and the Pipeline
Continuing the “Getting Started” series with a talk about the 7 major things you’ll use in Powershell. This is by no means a comprehensive list of how to use Powershell but something to get you started. One of the more powerful features of Powershell is the pipeline. If you ever used DOS and batch programming you know all about the pipeline and Microsoft has really embraced it with Powershell.
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