Join MVP recipient and PowerShell Bible author, Tome Tanasovski, in a short-form podcast that will explore a PowerShell cmdlet or technique in each episode.
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In this episode we look at how you can power down or reboot computers on your network. We also realize that this is the easiest way to learn how to do the same for any Windows 8 computer.
Restart-Computer -ComputerName (gc c:\computerlist.txt) -ThrottleLimit 64 -ForceBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we look at a few commonly overlooked providers and what they contain.
Try the following:
cd variable: dir cd env: dir cd function: dirBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we look at how we can turn PowerShell objects into comma separated strings and files
Append Example:
Get-Process |select name,id |ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation |select -Skip 1 |out-file filetoappend.txtBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we explore all of the possibilities for one of the most used PowerShell cmdlets.
Basic Example:
Get-Process |select name, idParameters discussed:
Return a string collection of the process names rather than an object with only a name property
Get-Process |select -ExpandProperty NameReturn the collection that exists within the access property
Get-Acl |select -ExpandProperty AccessCreate a custom property with Name/Expression Hash
Get-Process |select @{Name='Modified Name';Expression={$_.Name + "_Modified"}}Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we look at how you can stop the pipeline and suppress output with Out-Null.
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In this episode we look at how you can use break and continue to control the flow of loops.
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Download the MP3 PodcastIn this episode we look at how you can easily concatenate paths with Join-Path.
$dir = 'C:\users' $child = 'tome' Join-Path $dir $child c:\users\tome Join-Path c:,d: NewDir c:\NewDir d:\NewDirBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we look at how you can carve up strings that make up strings of text that make up paths with Split-Path:
By default – returns parent path
Split-Path c:\users\tome c:\userLeaf – returns the end of the path (file or directory name)
Split-Path c:\users\tome -Leaf tomeNoQualifier – removes the drive letter from the path
Split-path hklm:\software\microsoft -NoQualifier \software\microsoftQualifier – returns just the drive letter
Split-path c:\users\tome c:\IsAbsolute – returns true if it is an absolute path, not a relative path.
Resolve – evaluates the string path to a real path
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In this episode we look at how you can Backup, Restore, and Import Group Policy Objects using Windows PowerShell and the cmdlets that come with the Group Policy module in the latest version of RSAT and the GPMC.
$dir = '\\server1\gpobackups' # Backups Get-GPO -All |Backup-GPO -Path $dir Get-GPO remoting |Backup-GPO -Path $dir #Restore Restore-GPO -Path $dir -All Restore-GPO -Path $dir -Name remoting # Restore a GPO from a specific backup $id = '00003D27-F9E6-4C59-BF69-938E5AE43D05' Restore-GPO -Path $dir -BackupId $id # Create a new GPO named remoting2 Import-GPO -Path $dir -BackupGpoName remoting -TargetName remoting2 -CreateIfNeededBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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In this episode we look at how you can generate an RSOP with Windows PowerShell by using Get-GPResultantSetOfPolicy by using the GroupPolicy module that comes with the GPMC that is bundled in Windows Server 2008 R2 and the most recent version of RSAT.
# Populate dir with the current dir regardless of whether # you are in a script or executing in the shell if ($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path) { $dir = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path } else { $dir = $pwd } $user = 'home\Administrator' $report = Join-Path $dir 'rsop.html' $comp = 'Server1' Get-GPResultantSetOfPolicy -User $user -Path $report -ReportType HTML -Computer $compBrought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org
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