{"id":7081,"date":"2007-11-07T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/11\/07\/check-it-out-out-vcard\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:26","slug":"check-it-out-out-vcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/check-it-out-out-vcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Check it out: Out-vCard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog Out-vCard: Exporting Outlook Address Book<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

It lets you do things like:\n<\/p>\n

Get-QADGroupMember DL.ProjectA | Out-vCard<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To create a Vcard file for every member of a distribution list.\n<\/p>\n

This made my day (and I was already having a great day!).\n<\/p>\n

That said \u2013 this script BEGS to be rewritten using a HERE-STRING. If you haven’t already educated yourself on HERE-STRINGS \u2013 do yourself a favor and stop what you are doing and get these in focus. Using them makes your code faster, smaller, more maintainable, it even makes your teeth whiter.\n<\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell Tip of the Week: Using Windows PowerShell “Here-Strings”<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

Variable expansion in strings and here-strings<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

Using PowerShell to Generate XML Documents<\/a> (A great example of using here-strings)\n<\/p>\n

\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog Out-vCard: Exporting Outlook Address Book. It lets you do things like: Get-QADGroupMember DL.ProjectA | Out-vCard To create a Vcard file for every member of a distribution list. This made my day (and I was already having a great day!). That said \u2013 this script BEGS to be rewritten using a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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