Although PowerShell has no native cmdlets to work with Active Directory you can still perform many actions using PowerShell’s ADSI support. You can find some more info about that here. Although ADSI support is great, it is better to have some real cmdlets to do Active Directory stuff. Quest have released a Management Shell for […]
Category Archives: Basics
PowerGUI and PowerGadgets
09-Aug-07Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog has a post about the combination of PowerGUI and PowerGadgets. If you don’t know those products, check out the Add-ons page for more info. With all the PowerShell enabled products that are available and coming, these two tools should be in any administrator’s toolbelt.
n/Software PowerShell Remoting
04-Jul-07n/software have a beta available of their PowerShell Remoting product. It provides access to PowerShell on remote machines using the SSH protocol. This is the PowerShell Server when started as an application:
You connect to the PowerShell Server using an application like Putty. Alternatively, you can use n/software’s NetCmdLets and the ssh cmdlet.
I already blogged about […]
PowerShell Community Extensions 1.1.1
22-Jun-07Version 1.1.1 of the PowerShell Community Extensions has been released. Next to bugfixes, there are also some now features such as an elevate function. Check out the announcement from Keith Hill’s blog here. Download the new version here.
When you are learning to work with the SharePoint object model, it can be handy to use PowerShell as a discovery tool to see what’s available and how it works. Several posts on this blog have already dealt with the SharePoint object model. This post should be seen as an introduction and an how to.
First […]
SMTP .net object demo
17-Jun-07Evan Dodds has a nice example about the use of PowerShell in combination with Exchange Server 2007 cmdlets and some .net objects. The example sends an e-mail using an authenticated SMTP connection to Exchange. Check it out here.
PowerShell Graphical Help File
03-Jun-07Head over to the Microsoft site and download the PowerShell help files in chm (Windows Help) format. Good stuff and very helpful while writing PowerShell scripts.
It comes with a readme file that explains how to invoke GUI help from the PowerShell command line as well.
On Stefan Stranger’s blog, there is a link to a post on the PowerGadget’s forum about some interesting PowerShell scripts that output to PowerGadgets. The end result is something like:
Resources
08-Mar-07This page is a work-in-progress.
Learning
PowerShell webcasts
PowerShell in Action
Great book about PowerShell that’s a must read! There is a pdf version for sale as well.
Script samples and a VBScript to PowerShell conversion guide
Free PowerShell Book
PowerShell Graphical Help files
Administration/Deployment
Administrative Templates
Use these ADM files to control PowerShell settings with Group Policy.
Active Directory
Basic guide to manage Active Directory objects
Good […]
PowerShell Community Extensions 1.1 have been released. Just go to CodePlex and download the new version. To upgrade to the new version, first uninstall the old version. The new version also installs perfectly on Windows Vista.
There are many new cmdlets and features in this version. To find out more, just type man about_pscx. The […]
