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August 17, 2011Aug 17, 201108/17/11Summary: Guest Blogger Jason Helmick talks about updating an Enterprise GPO on a dark and stormy night using Windows PowerShell.
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson is here. Guest Blogger Week continues today with Jason Helmick as our guest.
About the author
Jason Helmick is an Instructor at Interface Technical Training and specializes in Windows PowerShell.
January 21, 2011Jan 21, 201101/21/11Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to download files from the Internet and other cool tasks in today’s Quick-Hits Friday.
In this Post:
Working with Windows PowerShell Group Policy Cmdlets
Using PowerShell to Log In to an HTTPS Website
PowerShell Best Practices
October 5, 2010Oct 5, 201010/5/10Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows you how to use Group Policy to enable reliability tracing via Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Graph.
Hey, Scripting Guy! First of all, let me say that yesterday’s article was interesting. We are also looking at attempting to determine server reliability,
August 14, 2010Aug 14, 201008/14/10Summary: The easiest way to deploy a Windows PowerShell script to users is to create a Group Policy logon script.
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Oh…my eyes feel like they are glued to my eyelids. I am not a night owl,
July 16, 2010Jul 16, 201007/16/10
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to connect to two Group Policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory and make an offline copy of the GPOs using Windows PowerShell 2.0 so that I can compare the two objects. I know I can do this using the Group Policy Management Console,
July 15, 2010Jul 15, 201007/15/10
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to connect to two Group Policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory and make an offline copy of the GPOs using Windows PowerShell 2.0 so that I can compare the two objects. I know I can do this using the Group Policy Management Console,
July 14, 2010Jul 14, 201007/14/10
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to use the Microsoft Group Policy cmdlets and Windows PowerShell 2.0 to test Active Directory replication. Know how?
— RG
Hello RG,
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I had an Office Communicator conversation last night with my friend Brett in Sydney,
July 13, 2010Jul 13, 201007/13/10
Hey, Scripting Guy! I want to know how to use the Group Policy cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to back up and to restore Group Policy objects (GPOs), and I have heard that there are Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7.
July 12, 2010Jul 12, 201007/12/10
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to work with Group Policy Objects (GPOs) by using a Windows PowerShell script. I understand there are new Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7, but when I use the Get-Command cmdlet, I do not see any cmdlets.
June 5, 2009Jun 5, 200906/5/09How Can I Create Unique User Permissions on Windows Server 2003 with Group Policy?
Hey, Scripting Guy! We are using Windows Server 2003 R2. I want to create a Group Policy policy setting for individual users according to their permission on folders.
