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: Tools
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.
On Nick’s Exchange and Scripting Blog there is a good post about scripting NTBackup to backup Exchange databases. Besides the fact that I did not know about the NTBackup optimizations and an enhanced version of NTBackup in Windows Server 2003 SP1, the post is also very informative when it comes to PowerShell. It shows:
making registry […]
Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions
16-Mar-07Heath Stewart released a PowerShell extension that works with Windows Installer. For now, two cmdlets are provided:
Get-MSIPatchInfo
Get-MSIProductInfo
Check out CodePlex for full details and download.
PowerShell Remoting
28-Feb-07If you want to run PowerShell on remote machines, you can try PowerShell Remoting. It remotes the user interface with a couple of restrictions. For example, you cannot use command completion (<TAB>) and you cannot execute ‘external’ programs (.exe). Installation is simple: install a server component and a client component and you are done. With […]
Use Console 2.0 to run PowerShell
24-Feb-07Normally, PowerShell runs in a normal Windows console window. Console, now at version 2.0, enhances the console experience with multiple tabs, better text selection, different backgrounds, transparency and so on. Download the application from sourceforge.net and install it. I downloaded this file. There is no installer in the package so just copy the console folder […]
