Showing archive results for August 2014

Summary: List all users who do not have a photo assigned in Active Directory.  Is there a simple way that I can use Windows PowerShell to identify users who do not have a photo assigned in Active Directory?  Target the ThumbnailPhoto property, and filter the users for Null: GET-ADUSER –filter * -properties ThumbnailPh...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to import and export photos in Active Directory. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here. I was playing about with Active Directory this week. I wanted to be able to get photos to automatically populate on my workstations running Windows 7. By doing some online reading, I found that you can store this in t...

Summary: Figure out how many days are in a month by using Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find how many days are in a particular month?  Use the DaysInMonth static method from the System.DateTime object.             It expects the year and then the month as argumen...

Summary: Use the Windows PowerShell cmdlets to generate Exchange Online information. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning, I have a meeting with my manager, and this afternoon, I am meeting with a couple of teammates. The meetings will bookend another wonderful day of Windows PowerShell coolness. In honor of the meeting this mo...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the syntax for a method.  I am trying to figure out how to use a .NET Framework method, but it is not working.            How can I get a better idea of what to do?  Call the method with no parenthesis or parameters, for example: [DateTime]::DaysInMonth