Recently I was reading the article Service Desk Plus REST API. Well! yeah not really great for Automation at this point of time but partially served my needs.I love automation so thought of spinning up PowerShell to do few tasks which I perform on daily basis with minimum tool permission. Indeed, service desk plus has […]
Bangalore PowerShell User Group DSC Work Shop – July 18, 2015 Are you in INDIA? Are you an IT Pro? Are you a Dev? Looking for Automation? IT Manager looking for a bridge between IT Pro’s and Dev’s? Want to learn or know about DEVOPS? Just 1 day to go! Bangalore PowerShell User Group announced […]
April 29, 2015 Microsoft released Windows PowerShell 5.0 [WMF 5.0] Supported Operating System Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 Pro Windows 8.1 Enterprise Windows Server 2012 Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Download Link Features
This is a great free event that Microsoft and the MVPs are putting on, May 14th & 15th. Join Microsoft MVPs from the Americas’ region as they share their knowledge and real-world expertise during a free event, the MVP Virtual Conference. The MVP Virtual Conference will showcase 95 sessions of content for IT Pros, Developers […]
I am one among the many beginners in PowerShell Desired State Configuration. Recently I saw the TechNet Forum Post so thought of sharing my experience Error The WinRM client cannot process the request. The object contains an unrecognized argument: “JobId”. Verify that the spelling of the argument name is correct. + CategoryInfo : MetadataError: […]
Set-UserPhoto Error – Now Solved 🙂 Error: Proxy method PSWS: Request return error with following error message: The remote server returned an error: (413) Request Entity Too Large… + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-UserPhoto], CmdletProxyException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.CmdletProxyException,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.SetUserPhoto More Information: Logged an issue in Connect Refer to the Workaround posted which might have […]
Microsoft Ignite May 4-8, 2015. This is year Microsoft is conducting Ignite at Chicago, IL. The official Link is here. Why Ignite? [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxu0QE8jc60[/embedyt] Agenda Sessions Registration Link Explore the contents for Windows PowerShell We can build our own schedule. Refer to this link and plan your agenda in upfront.
Requirement Query AD [Active Directory] computers and insert into SQL Express. Considerations Requirement is just an one liner. We need to consider a lot before we deliver this to production. Do we need all computers from AD or just enabled? Yeah! We need only enabled computers. If Admin disables / enables a computer or remove […]
Exploring LYNC Contact folders using PowerShell. Get-MailboxFolderStatistics will display all the folders information in users mailbox. So using this we can explore LYNC Contacts with the folder type ‘Quick Contacts’. Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity <MailboxID> | ? {$_.FolderType -eq ‘QuickContacts’} Lync Contact Folders with 0 Entries If we delete lync contacts programmatically it may appear as GUID […]
Summary Regular Expression is very Powerful and best way to play with strings. Using REGEX in PowerShell is best way to query log files, pattern matching etc.., however we should use it as applicable. Example Code #Given Name : Chendrayan Venkatesan #Required Output: Venkatesan , Chendrayan “Chendrayan Venkatesan” -replace “([a-z]+)\s([a-z]+)” ,’$2, $1′ #Given Name : […]