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Burn CD's and DVDs with Powershell
Included with Microsoft Vista is a new API for scripting against optical drives; the Image Mastering API version 2 or IMAPI2. This makes it possible to retrieve information from optical storage media like CDs and DVDs and write to them. The story around...
Posted 02 November 2007 05:47 PM by Austin | with no comments
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PoSH is here to stay!
I'm sure a lot of my crew are almost getting to their wits end with my persistent harping about the capabilities of Powershell and the need for anyone involved in Windows management to get on the act now. I ain't stopping though. This is probably...
Posted 02 November 2007 03:42 PM by Austin | with no comments
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TechEd IT Forum In Barcelona
Anyone visiting my blog who's going to be at TechEd in Barcelona from the 12th - 16th of November, do let me know. I'll be there and looking forward to another exciting week learning stuff and trading "war stories" with my kinda geeks...
Posted 26 October 2007 03:42 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell- Improved!
Remember the PoSH add users to AD script? Well, it got picked up by “The Man” himself, Dmitry Sotnikov of PowerGUI fame and he rolled it into a one-liner: 1..500 | ForEach-Object { New-QADUser -ParentContainer ps64.local/test -Name “testuser$_“ -SamAccountName...
Posted 25 October 2007 04:53 AM by Austin | with no comments
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Group Policy meets Powershell in a big way!
Today I attended an invitational-only product demo given by Thorbjörn Sjövold the CTO of Special Operation Software of their up coming product Specops Command . This product, in it's pre Beta version, tries to resolve the "last mile" problem...
Posted 23 October 2007 07:36 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Creating Test AD users with Powershell
Sometime last week on the Microsoft AD newsgroup, someone asked for a script to populate test users in Active Directory using a source text file with he user names and passwords. Of course, several people suggested VB scripts to do the task and Richard...
Posted 22 October 2007 09:42 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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Thomas Lee gives us a mention!
Thomas Lee, well known IT Evangelist, author and MVP gives me a mention in his September PC Pro article on WMI and Powershell. Nice! Enjoy the article.
Posted 29 July 2007 04:42 PM by Austin | with no comments
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sdmsoftware release GPExpert™ Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell
The sdmsoftware crew have released GPE Toolkit for the automation of Group Policy settings. I can see this PoSH based tool being an essential part of every GP admins kit. The Power and flexibility it gives for the creation of policies and ensuring the...
Posted 25 July 2007 04:51 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Scripting Group Policy settings!
I spent this weekend playing with a beta copy of SDM Softwares' GPExpert Scripting Toolkit kindly advanced to a colleague of mine and I by Darren Mar Ellia, the CTO of SDMS. Darren is one of the better known GPO gurus there are out there and when...
Posted 22 July 2007 07:31 PM by Austin | with no comments
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Quest Software wins Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the year
Quest Software, at the Microsoft Partner conference held in Denver ,won the Global ISV Partner of the Year award for their adoption and use of Powershell. Quests Active Directory cmdlets and stuff from Dmitry Sotnikovs ' PowerGUI team are some of...
Posted 15 July 2007 09:02 AM by Austin | 1 comment(s)
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