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Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to collect data for capacity planning.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting learning Windows PowerShell and I understand how to use it as a scripting language and shell. I’ve been told to start performing capacity planning for my servers and was wondering how I can u...

Summary: Use the CIM cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to find associated WMI classes. How can I find the associated classes for a WMI object? Use the Windows PowerShell 3.0 CIM cmdlets.First get the WMI object for which you want find the associated classes:$group = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Group  -Filter "Name = 'Administra...

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover the membership of local groups.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to check the membership of local groups on all my servers. How can I do that? — AK  Hello AK, Hono...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group?  Use Get-ADGroupMember, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the           SamAccountName for the groups: "Schema Admins", "Domain Ad...

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover Active Directory groups that have no members.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to audit our Active Directory to discover any empty groups. How can I do that? —TL  ...