PowerShell Bible Update
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerShell Bible on November 24, 2010
I’m excited to announce that Thomas Lee has joined our team! For those that don’t know Thomas, he runs 2 PowerShell Blogs: The “PowerShell Scripts Blog” is (You guessed it) Mostly PowerShell Scripts. The “Under The Stairs” blog is his technical blog, where he provides deeper insight into PowerShell. No matter how you look at […]
One year on WordPress
Posted by Karl Mitschke in Uncategorized on November 20, 2010
Wow, what a year it’s been since I posted “Script remote DCOM / WMI access for a non admin” 29 posts and 21,698 views later, and here I am writing seven chapters in a book Who’d a thought THAT would happen! Thanks to Marco Shaw for getting me started on all this. And, a special […]
CopyToColorizedHTML–Script Editor Add-on for PowerGUI
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerGUI, WMI on October 30, 2010
I posted my script editor add-in on the PowerGUI Challenge folder http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=389 Based on Lee Holmes Set-ClipboardScript located here: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2009/02/03/more-powershell-syntax-highlighting/This script editor add-on will copy the current window to HTML ready to post on a blog or web page.This tool is found under Edit -> Copy As -> Colorized HTMLThe script will copy the entire […]
Retrieve all Exchange mailboxes by OU with PowerShell
Posted by Karl Mitschke in 2007, 2010, Exchange on October 15, 2010
A question came up on powershellcommunity.org: ”Hi guys, I’ve been blindsided by the General Manager and need to get a list of all our Mailboxes, as well as the smtp addresses attached to them. I need these to be pumped out per OU (we have a lot) so that I can do costings per OU. […]
PowerShell rename a mailbox folder using Exchange Web Services API
Posted by Karl Mitschke in EWS, Exchange, V2 on October 14, 2010
A question came up on the Exchange Server Forum on powershellcommunity.org: ‘Is it possible to use PowerShell with a COM access to connect to a remote outlook mailbox and change the name of a folder, especially a custom folder not a system folder like inbox,sent items,contact…etc? I have a project where I need to change […]
Creating random users for a domain
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerShell, PowerShell Bible on October 12, 2010
I needed to create some users for my Active Directory domain I created to use in the book “Windows PowerShell Bible” for the Exchange Management chapter. I could have done something simple like: 001 1..120 | ForEach { Net User “BookUser$_” P@ssW0rd /ADD /Domain} This would have created 120 users in the Users ou on my domain, but they would have all […]
Working on a book :)
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerShell Bible on October 6, 2010
I have been asked to be a co-author on the upcoming Wiley book “Windows PowerShell Bible” My Co Authors are: Douglas FinkeMark SchillTome Tanasovski Marco Shaw is our Technical Editor The book is tentatively scheduled for a June 2011 release.
PowerGUI Challenge 2010
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerGUI on October 5, 2010
The PowerGUI Challenge 2010 is nearly here. The challenge runs from October 15th to November 15th, so you have plenty of time to create a really cool Add-On or PowerPack I plan to upload my first Add-On on October 15th. Judges this year are Jeffrey Snover and Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft Corporation, along with MVP’s […]
PowerShell EWS Managed API Get Calendar Booked Time
Posted by Karl Mitschke in 2007, 2010, EWS, V2 on September 14, 2010
As part of our Full-Cost Maturity Model (FMM), my management chain took the number of employees and created a SWAG of our billable time – they then took these billable hours, and in my case divided them by the number of mailboxes in our organization. – That’s how much it costs for 1 Exchange Administrator […]
PowerShell Search AD by GUID
Posted by Karl Mitschke in PowerShell, V2 on July 1, 2010
A question was posted on http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/thread/728c6aed-a3ef-4b6f-b5bc-28024251d5eb “I have GUID’s from event log’s and such that I need to be able to take and convert to a human readable name” PowerShell can do this with the RSAT tools or the Quest AD cmdlets have this functionality built in, but I like doing things the hard way. […]
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