One of the cool cmdlets that was added is Get-QADMemberOf. I am excited to get playing with these.
More info can be found on Dmitry’s blog here.
You can download them here.
David Muegge has a great set of blog posts going related to using Log Parser with PowerShell.
Check them out with the links below.
Just logged into Technet today to get a ISO, and saw that EBS is now in Technet. Now only if I had enough machines to try it out with.
This is a pretty cool one liner that is of tremendous help. You can get the
serial number of most PCs via PowerShell remotely. This includes Dell service
tags.
Command:
Get-WMIObject -Class "Win32_BIOS" -Computer computername | select SerialNumber
Example:
Get-WMIObject –Class “Win32_BIOS” –Computer MJDEV01 | Select
SerialNumber
SerialNumber
------------
8888888
This works on both Dell and HP/Compaq PCs. I haven’t tested this on other
vendors PCs.
Recently, while doing a migration between Exchange 2007 servers, I needed to find out the size of the mailboxes so I could distribute the transfer load to off hours. PowerShell to the rescue.
There is a lot to this one liner, but you can customize it for your use.
Get-Content "c:\data\users-to-move.txt" | ForEach-Object {Get-Mailbox $_ | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select-Object DisplayName, {$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}}
Lets go into the details.
First, I started by creating a text file for the people I know I had to move. You can use Quest’s tools or Get-Mailbox to filter only those who you need to move. The text file was already created so I decided to use that. I used the Get-Content command. I used a file that was local on my workstation, but you can use a UNC path as well.
Once I got the content in the pipeline, I sent it to the ForEach-Object command. This causes PowerShell to loop through each line of the text file and send the contents in the $_ variable to what is inside the brackets. From there I sent it to Get-Mailbox so I can get the user's alias so I would be able to get the mailbox’s statistics. I am guessing that I could have just used Get-MailboxStatistics and piped in the user’s alias, but I had the email addresses.
From there, I only needed the name and total size of the mailbox for the user. I ran the Select statement to get only the two properties that I needed. The problem is that the value TotalItemSize is stored in bytes not megabytes or gigabytes. That is where having PowerShell built on top of .NET comes in handy. I just added to the end of the property that I wanted .Value.ToMB(). You will need to enclose those in brackets to make sure that it works. Another you can change the number that the TotalItemSize is ToGB().
I know this is kind of wordy, but it was useful to me and displays the power of PowerShell.
Jon DeVann and Steven Sinofsky started the Engineering Windows 7 Blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx
This is awesome! Except, I am still just getting completely used to Vista for everything. Oh well.
The Windows Small Business Server 2008 Technical Library is available on Technet.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc527559.aspx
Enjoy!
I was downloading another ISO today, and realized that SQL Server 2008 was among the items you can download.
- SQL Server 2008 Developer
- SQL Server 2008 Web
- SQL Server 2008 Workgroup
- SQL Server 2008 Standard
- SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
Cool!