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August 9, 2011Aug 9, 201108/9/11Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to convert security descriptors to different formats.
Hey, Scripting Guy! I was reading through a listing of WMI methods recently, and I ran across a WMI class that looks interesting—Win32_SecurityDescriptorHelper. I think it will help me,
January 14, 2011Jan 14, 201101/14/11
Summary: Learn how to use jobs to run parallel queries, remove objects from active memory, work with text files and use the Get-Member Cmdlet to go behind the scenes of PowerShell commands in this edition of Quick Hits Friday.
June 18, 2010Jun 18, 201006/18/10In this post:
In Windows PowerShell, How Can I Pipe the Contents of a Property to a Command?
Using WMI for Security Event Log Tracing
In Windows PowerShell, How Can I Pipe the Contents of a Property to a Command?
May 23, 2010May 23, 201005/23/10
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I was sitting in the kitchen waiting for my pot of English Breakfast tea to steep when my mind began to wander back over the week that was nearly completed. One of these days I will write a script to count the number of words in all the documents in a folder.
April 7, 2010Apr 7, 201004/7/10Hey Scripting Guy! Our previous network administrator was a slouch. He did not maintain proper backups, never reviewed event logs, and never cleaned up user folders when he deleted users in Active Directory. This last omission is particularly egregious because it has taken a lot of cleanup work to find and delete the user folders.
