Showing results for October 2010 - Page 4 of 6 - Scripting Blog [archived]

  Summary: The Windows PowerShell community offers many enjoyable learning opportunities. Guest blogger Tome Tanasovski explains how this works, and how to become involved.   Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get involved in the Windows PowerShell community? -- TE   Hello TE, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the best thi...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory cmdlets to update user objects in Active Directory.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Watching you write a custom function to search Active Directory is about as much fun as watching paint dry. One reason we upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 was to gain access to the Active Directory...

  Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search Microsoft Active Directory for users that have missing values, and automatically add default values.   Hey, Scripting Guy! We have several network administrators where I work. Unfortunately, all of them have complete rights to Active Directory. This means that any one of the admin...

  Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell to translate a user's SID to an Active Directory Domain Services account name.   Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that whenever I search for Windows PowerShell scripts to translate a user name into a SID, all I can find is a script that uses WMI. WMI is too slow ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell and WMI to translate a SID to a user name, or a user name to a SID.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I do a lot of work with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and quite often I need to find the security identifier (SID) of a user. I know that I can find the SID...