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These are my conference demos from WinConnections Orlando 2008. My sessions were all on PowerShell: Managing Active Directory with PowerShell Managing Servers and Desktops with PowerShell and WMI Powershell and Windows Server 2008 Read the examples thoroughly and test in a non-production environment. If you have questions, please post in…   More »

 http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+a+LDAP+search+filter is a great article on writing LDAP search filters.…   More »

We've long been advocates of outputting objects, rather than text, and of keeping individual functions very single-task-specific. Here's an ultimate example of these two philosophies: The first function, Get-DriveInventory, emits custom "drive inventory objects" rather than text. The second, Write-DriveInventory, takes these objects and writes their properties to a pre-designed…   More »

 If you have a file with one name per line - be they user names, or more commonly computer names, this script will read them all and execute a block of your code for each name in the file. The comments provide an example that you can completely replace. The…   More »

 Here's a great example of how to do something to every user, computer, or other object in the directory. This enumerates through every object, recursing the entire directory. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Targeting AD ' This shows how to target every user, computer, '…   More »

 The last-resort way of automating anything using VBScript is to launch a GUI application and just send keystrokes (but not mouse movement or clicks - try AutoIt if you need mouse control, too). Here's an example, using Notepad, of how sending keystrokes works. Note that this takes a lot of…   More »

 These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool's output. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Run cmdline tools ' This shows how to launch a command-line ' tool and retrieve its output into a string variable ' to then…   More »

 This example uses files and folders, but really any hierarchy - such as Active Directory - uses the same technique. You'll want to really read through this one and understand what it's doing to be able to take advantage of it: It shows how to have a function recursively call…   More »

 This is one of my favorite tricks for debugging. Rather than adding MsgBox() calls to display variables' contents, I write them to a separate IE window. When I'm done debugging, I uncomment one line (as noted below) to disable the debugging functionality - which is easier than going through and…   More »

 This quick example shows how to automate Internet Explorer. In this example, I just pop up IE and navigate to a particular page, and then write the page's HTML content out to a local file. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Automate IE example ' This…   More »