I have to say, overall, I did enjoy this book. It just isn’t quite as excellent as it could be. What I liked I liked the overall theme of the book and the research-based tone throughout. The authors make the claim that there are “five essential elements of wellbeing”: Work (Career) Social Financial Physical Community […]
Here’s a nifty little trick if you ever need to rename a large set of files (I’m looking at you, thousands of images from my DSLR!): Dir | Rename-Item –NewName { $_.name –replace “ “,”_” } This will pipe all the files in your current directory into Rename-Item, and replace whatever is in the first […]
Icolan added a good tip on my last post: Icolan Says: Why not call mmc.exe with the start-process command, then you won’t have a cmd window left open. Start-Process “C:\Windows\System32\mmc.exe” -workingdirectory $PSHOME -Credential -ArgumentList “dsa.msc” Why not indeed? 🙂 Simply adding that to the original script though, gave me the error: “The requested operation requires elevation” […]
So the old methodology we used to use for opening up Active Directory was a little cmd file: runas /user:AD\<admin account> cmd Which would start a new cmd window running under the <admin account> credentials. From there, you could type dsa.msc to start Active Directory running as that <admin account> instead of the account you […]
Found a nice little powershell command to get info on printers installed on a print server: Get-WmiObject -class Win32_printer -computer <print server name/IP address> -credential <domain\username> | Select Name,Comment,DriverName,location,PortName | Export-Csv c:\PrintServerInfo.csv
Want to know who is currently logged into a machine? (gwmi Win32_ComputerSystem -Comp).username PowerShell <3
This is my first post at my SA:IT blog! I just got back from Orlando, FL where I attended Microsoft TechEd 2012. While it was a great experience and I learned a lot, it was also really exhausting! There was so much to do and see I was honestly very overwhelmed. I arrived late Saturday […]