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PowerShell: Making it al happen

2010-11-16T15:27:00.000-05:00

I was fielding some basic questions about ‘how do I’ in PowerShell when became aware of some things that seem to be happening around PowerShell. First, it seems that many PowerShell users tend to disappear and may only reappear months later with dramatically newer and more sophisticated questions. Where they go in the interim is still a mystery. Perhaps they have gone to another

PowerShell: Advanced Functions (Binding Behavior)

2010-11-07T10:15:00.001-05:00

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PowerShell: Advanced Functions (The Pipeline)

2010-11-07T09:08:00.001-05:00

PowerShell: Advanced Functions (Script CmdLets)

2010-11-04T16:27:00.001-05:00

PowerShell calls ‘Script CmdLets’ Advanced Functions. At a PowerShell prompt type: help about_advanced_functions Here is a minimal advanced function that can be used as a CmdLet. The minimum requirement is to have either [CmdletBinding()] or at least one [Parameter()] statement. 1

PowerShell ADSISEARCHER Basics

2010-10-16T12:57:00.001-05:00

The ActiveDirectory class of the Net classes has a ‘type accelerator’ in PowerShell; [adsisearcher]. This is shorthand for [System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher] We can create an instance of this object like this: $searcher=[adsisearcher]”” This can then be used exactly as if we used the full class name: $searcher=[System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher]”” Which is the same as: $

A Simple Display and Clipboard Copy of HTML code.

2010-08-26T13:12:00.000-05:00

The following code can be inserted anywhere inline or the JavaScript in the global theme. Any ‘anchor’ can be used to call the code with the ‘id’ of the tag that contains the code. Care needs to be taken that the tag will properly render the html as converted HTML. The Windows Live Writer allows HTML to be pasted into the screen and it will convert as shown below. X Copy Code ADODB Stream Writer Image Test