Month: February 2015

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/11/22/weekend-scripter-use-powershell-to-get-add-and-remove-ntfs-permissions.aspx ScriptingGuy in this blog has dealt with and ably addressed the various limitations of the original system of setting permissions in Windows using Powershell, which was that you had to manipulate ACLs, never particularly easy, and also had the horrible 260 character path abortion of Windows 32 API to contend with. By providing the…

What makes Powershell so useful is not only the excellent built-in capabilities, but the various extension modules developed for it by third parties. Last time I talked about some Google Apps extensions, which I am currently testing and look very promising. Today I am going to take a quick look at Powershell Community Extensions and…

You don’t have to be too knowledgeable about computing to know Microsoft and Google are at each other’s throats constantly in the IT world. Fortunately, that doesn’t extend to every level, and so it is with some pleasure I have started to investigate the ability to use Powershell to provision and manage Google Apps for…

So continuing on my Powershell with AD series, here is my student account script newly written in Powershell which is calling Get-ADUser to look up accounts in Active Directory. function AddStudent($StudentData) {    write-host “Add ” + $StudentData.LName + ” ” + $StudentData.FName} function UpdateStudent($StudentData){    write-host “Update ” + $StudentData.LName + ” ” + $StudentData.FName} function…