Showing archive results for January 2014

Summary: Microsoft guest blogger and PFE, Ian Farr, talks about using Windows PowerShell to get account lockout and password policies. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Ian Farr. Ian is a Microsoft PFE in the UK. Recently, I was asked how to retrieve a domain’s Account Lockout Policy and Password Policy ...

Summary: Get information about the sessions between SMB clients and the SMB server. .  How can I use Windows PowerShell to get information about the sessions between           server message block (SMB) clients and the SMB server on my computer running Windows 8?  Open the Windows PowerShell console with...

SUMMARY: Announcing the 2014 Windows PowerShell heroes from PowerShell.Org The PowerShell.Org community announced today the results of their 2014 PowerShell Heroes poll. The community results are in. You can read the complete announcement on PowerShell.Org. The five 2014 PowerShell Heroes are listed here: 1. Teresa Wilson, aka the Scripting Wife &n...

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy and PowerShell MVP, Don Jones, makes his Windows PowerShell community predictions for 2014.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I invited Don Jones, Windows PowerShell MVP and Honorary Scripting Guy, to write some predictions for 2014. And now, here’s Don… 2014 is shaping up to be a big yea...

Summary: Learn how to disable module autoloading in Windows PowerShell.  How can disable module autoloading in Windows PowerShell?  Set the value of $PSModuleAutoLoadingPreference to “none”: $PSModuleAutoLoadingPreference = "none"