PowerShell is a command prompt and a scripting environment designed for Windows system administration.
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Getting Enum Values of Pseudo-Enum Classes
NB: By "Pseudo-Enum" Classes I mean cases where someone's used a class with public static properties to emulate enum behaviour; e.g. as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15713789/361842.)
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A PowerShell script to modify svn:externals property on certain folders
While I'm a rather experienced .NET developer, I just had a first crack at a PowerShell script. I'm not entirely new to it, but never written anything so involved.
Script description and goals
At ...
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Fetching certain eventIDs from servers on network.
The PowerShell script below queries the Security event log on one or more servers for events with id 4663. When trying to retrieve all audit events for event id 4663 with the following code the ...
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Downloading and updating deploymentshare applications
I'm an absolute newb when it comes to PowerShell, and this is pretty much my first real script. I'd now like to know ways to improve it and if possible to shorten the code even further. I use it ...
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Automatically remove O365 license from AD user when using powershell
As you can see I have been using multiple conditions such as if, elseif, else, but it takes ...
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PowerShell script to read line by line large CSV files
I am managing large CSV files (files ranging from 750 Mb to 10+ Gb), parsing their data into PSObjects, then processing each of those objects based on what is required.
I wrote the following script ...
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Using Powershell to Copy Files to Several Locations
This code copies files to our Test server and places the executable on a file share for the tester to access. I'm new to Powershell, so I'm sure I'm not doing this in the most efficient way. Any ...
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Getting NTFS permissions of all shared folders on the local machine
How can I improve the speed of the script?
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PowerShell script to create Excel spreadsheet from HTML file
This script is designed to create an Excel spreadsheet from each HTML table from auto-generated index.html file.
It needs to be very robust but unfortunately I ...
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Powershell cmdlet authenticating to Aerohive API
After dipping my toes in PowerShell for over a year i think it is time for creating a real cmdlet. My first mission was creating a regular PS script to take in a .csv and create a wifi account using ...
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Copying files, renaming conflicts
I wrote a script to copy a file, but this file already exists in the target directory. So, first I need to rename the original file.
The script works, but a colleague did not want to use it because ...
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Powershell Interaction with Excel (Highlighting Cells)
I'm using Powershell to compare two, large csv files and output the rows which don't match. Once the two output files are made (one for the differences on each), I bring them up on Excel. Now I want ...
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Populate Comboboxes with Hashtables using PowerShell
Background
This is a PowerShell program that uses XAML code from Visual Studio to create a GUI. In this program, there are various Comboboxes (Drop-down menus) used to select different features of ...
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Automation script for creating NuGet packages
I've been creating some NuGet packages recenly and to automate the process I created the following script that:
reads the package id from the script name
reads the package version from the nuspec ...
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powershell md5 compare too slow
I'm trying to compare several files using md5 hash with powershell 2.0. The code works, the problem is that it's to slow. It takes longer in step 3. It's about 500 files to compare. Can you see a way ...
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Babysitting a server reboot
I'm looking to improve a loop within a script that performs scheduled server restarts.
Currently, I'm using a DO While loop with an exit condition within an IF statement once a counter reaches a ...
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Vigenere Cipher encryption and decryption
I wanted to make some simple functions that would be used in the encryption and decryption using a Vigenere square.
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Adding some properties to an Active Directory user
I was writing the below section of code which adds some user properties to an Active Directory user, and got wondering - surely we can improve the readability of this :
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Chain nesting XML elements
I have a scenario where I need to chain nest XmlElements, and I got a working solution using a recursive function, but I can't help but feel that it can be made better.
Here's my code so far:
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Advent of Code Day 6: toggling lights in a grid with Powershell
I am using the "Advent of Code" series to help with my PowerShell education. The Day 6 puzzle has a 1000 × 1000 grid of lights. After processing instructions to turn on, turn off, or toggle rectangles ...
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Script to periodically Identify and act on public IP address
This script checks what the current public IP address is. The plan is for this to run every 5 minutes or so, and then change some host file configuration depending on whether we the IP is identified ...
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Create share folder, AD security group, add descriptions, and apply security to new folder
My goal for this script was to:
Create new folder
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-R
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-RW
Apply both groups to the new share folder
Set full read permissions to FS-TESTSHARE-R
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Create share folder and AD security group and apply security to new folder
I think I'm finally done with my code and was hoping for some pointers. My goal for this script was to:
Create new folder
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-R
Create AD group FS-TESTSHARE-RW
Apply both ...
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Is this the cleanest way to Set ACLs?
So this is my full script that I've been working on. My plan is to Create New, Folder, Create AD Group FS-TESTSHARE-R, Create AD Group FS-TESTSHARE-RW, Apply Both groups to the new share folder, Set ...
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Powershell task to poll SQL database for psexec commands to run
We have a requirement for a script which polls an SQL database for scrape commands which need to be run. These commands are added to the SQL database on an ad-hoc basis. The scrape commands themselves ...
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Batch script to make folders hidden
I just wrote a simple script cmd to hide private folders by combining several scripts from the Internet. Can anyone give me suggestions for improvement?
This batch file uses a password hidden by ...
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Powershell Script for setting DHCP reservation description & host value
I'm new to Powershell scripting and trying to write a script that will go through printer queues on a print server, get the print queue's port address, then compare the print queues port address to ...
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Grouping all mathematical results using a number sequence with basic math operators
Not sure how to make the title smaller. I was reading the question A truly amazing way of making the number 2016 and some of the answers referred to programatically determining the answer set.
What ...
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Bush wanderer console game
I had read the question: Bush Wanderer - code intended for teaching and wanted to play with PowerShell. Including the rules of the game from that same question.
Bush Wanderer
Task 1
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Get AD Users' Latest Last Logon Dates across Multiple DCs
I was recently asked to help our Spanish BU to audit their AD for inactive accounts.
Grabbing a script from online I gave them this: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-Active-...
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Power-Guessing The Number
I decided to help @Matt out a bit and ask a PowerShell question. This is a simple guess-the-number game learning how to use functions with and without parameters, and use the input and output ...
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Sherlock is going against the Beast with PowerShell
I ran into this challenge a couple of times today and thought I could tackle it with PowerShell. I refused to look at other peoples approaches to this hoping to complete it on my own. I'm sure the ...
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Non-install based customization for creating windows 7 images
Before I had access to VM's, money or had any PowerShell knowledge I made this script that would do some image customizations for me. I used physical computers and would be reinstalling the OS while I ...
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Find related groups among list of users
I have one of my first PowerShell scripts that will query a list of users in Active Directory. While doing so it will keep a tally in a hashtable that will update for every group increasing it count ...
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Powershell script to iterate through folder and restore SQL backups
I am working on a PowerShell script which will loop through a directory containing SQL Server database backup .bak files; move the files to a different location; restore each of those files to the ...
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Creating a portable encrypted credential store
There have been a few questions over on SO recently about securely storing credentials in Powershell scripts. Because ConvertFrom-SecureString uses DPAPI it makes ...
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SharePoint Online inventory
I'm creating a script to turn into a commandlet we can reuse as part of our custom PowerShell module. This works, but is very slow. I don't suspect it is anything to do with my code. I have to ...
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Delete orphaned SIDS + change to full control
I need to delete all the orphaned SIDs in the ACLs of about 20 shares (between 100GB/6TB) and change full control of users groups to other permissions (modify or read/execute). I have done this script ...
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Batch/PowerShell script that toggles the minimized state of a window
I wrote this script for a user who wants to toggle the minimized state of a window that minimizes to the tray. The user required a .bat script, so I wrote a bat + PowerShell hybrid script in order to ...
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FizzBuzz: A PowerShell Story
After reading way too much into what fizzbuzz was I though PowerShell could easily have its way with this.
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Query AD and build CSV based on certain user object properties
My question is about code efficiency. I recently had to write a Powershell 3.0 script which had the following criteria:
It had to pull all enabled user objects from active directory
It had to pull ...
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XML editing and merging
I have only started working with XML files and PowerShell. I feel that while there are many ways to accomplish the same thing that I might be doing the following inefficiently.
This is all based on ...
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Powershell zip subfolders recursively, conditionally
This is a progression of the script I posted here: Zip the contents of subfolders, conditionally
It does this:
Determines all subfolders recursively
Checks each subfolder for files older than 31 ...
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Powershell to break apart large flat files (e.g. csv)
I created the below script to help break apart large flat files; to save myself effort opening files which are several gigs in a text editor and manually split them.
So far I've only tested on sample ...
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Enforcing Paired Statements Using ScriptBlock
I really like c#'s Using statement as it allows you to pair Open statements with their corresponding ...
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Oneliner to extract External IP from IFCONFIG.CO
I wrote a small function in powershell that works fine, however I feel its extremely hacky and I'm sure there must be a smarter way to do this. In the interests of learning, what can I do to improve ...
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Zip the contents of subfolders, conditionally
I've written a script in Powershell for zipping files into new folders.
This script performs the following steps:
Check whether each subfolder contains non-zip files which are older than 31 days
If ...
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PowerShell GUI to display information about users
I have a GUI file which is currently being ran by VBS, but I have a few issues:
PowerShell v2 is what is being run on every machine and I cant change that, runs very slow on first time launch. it ...
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Powershell function to get hash value of a file
I created a function to get the hash value of a file. Normally the output is 3 lines. My function does 3 things:
extracts the hash value
removes the spaces in between the hash value
prints hash ...
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PHP to Powershell - Transport Function
I had previously made a script for an Active directory password changer but i wanted to compress the main component into a function by itself to keep it small.
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