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add-pssnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement $date = (get-date).ToString() $DistinguishedName = get-content C:\TEMP\90InactiveMoves\SSCtest.txt | foreach-object {get-qaduser $_ -Service 'My server.com'...
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I want to quickly identify the last time a server was patched/rebooted. I'm using this PowerShell command but i want it to only find the last entry in the eventlog. Not comb through the entire System...
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View ArticlePowershell - Replacing text and inserting a new line in a file with "\"...
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Hello all,I am a super power shell newbie, and if there is another way to do something similar to this that anyone knows please feel free to suggest. We are working on a scientific project, and are...
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Good day,I’d like to perform the equivalent of an SQL-like JOIN operation (i.e. not a UNION) in order to add the following fields:Win32_Process.CommandLineWin32_Process.Description…to the following...
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Hi,Can anyone please give me any guideline on implementing "Secure FTP" (SFTP) in powershell for FTP file transfers?
View ArticleNot able to change the idle session limit of Remote desktop services
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I've got a txt file that has 180 email address that need to be removed from user accounts within our AD and I'd prefer to do it via a Power shell script versus manually, mostly because I know there...
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View ArticleAssign NTFS rights on Remote server
am stuck on getting a script to users with low rights to assign NTFS rights with high priv. The script should have high priv service account's username and pass in the script. The scripts will be...
View ArticleExtract AD to CSV file to export users information
Dear all,I will need your kindly help to produce and powershell AD extract where I could filert on the the following info:All users account with the following criteria:users not disabledusers not...
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Need to access files on a NAS (with credentials); New-PSDrive, Net Use?
I simply tried to access a Nas with "Join-Path" but sadly you can not use credentials for that. Now Powershell tells me about "New-PSDrive" to use and in the internet I find plenty of pages about "Net...
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Mapping, strange issue with the Windows Server
This thread comes from here. I just tried to split it up because the actual question there has already been answered.Whatever, forget New-PSDrive cmdlet. I tried it out with mapping. Here's my new...
View ArticleCreate a Progress Bar using Write-Progress for bulk New-mailboxImportRequests
I am doing some bulk PST imports using New-MailboxImportRequest. Just FYI, this is the command I used:Dir "\\PATHNAME\*.pst" | %{ New-MailboxImportRequest -Name RecoveredPST -BatchName JPDETW -Mailbox...
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