A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
If you have the need to remove a specific calendar event/appointment from a mailbox, you can do it through Power Shell or Exchange Management Shell. Open PowerShell or EMS If this is an O365 mailbox, you will need to connect to the O365 environment Connect to Exchange On-line From the PowerShell console on an Exchange 2010 server: $Cred = Get-Credential […]
Read moreIf you have the need to export a user list from an Active Directory group along with the user’s email address, run the following command in PowerShell as an administrator. If your AD has the e-mail attribute filed out: Powershell Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “groupname” -Recursive | Get-ADUser -Properties Mail | Select-Object Name,Mail | Export-CSV -Path C:\file.csv -NoTypeInformation Example: If not you […]
Read moreHow can I use Windows PowerShell to disable a scheduled task? Use the Disable-ScheduledTask cmdlet and specify the task name, for example: Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskName “SystemScan” How can I use Windows PowerShell to disable all scheduled tasks in a particular folder? Use the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet to enumerate the scheduled tasks in the folder, and then pipe the objects to […]
Read moreHow can I use Windows PowerShell to disconnect from a virtual disk? Use the Disconnect-VirtualDisk cmdlet and specify the friendly name, for example: Disconnect-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName VirtualDisk01
Read moreHow can I use Windows PowerShell to dismount a virtual disk? Use the Dismount-DiskImage cmdlet. It will dismount either an ISO or a virtual hard disk. Specify the path then using -imagepath. Here is an example: Dismount-DiskImage -imagepath “C:\fso\myisodisk.iso”
Read moreHow can I be notified any time a service goes down? There are a couple different ways you can do this, but perhaps the simplest approach is to create a script that monitors WMI events. We don’t have time to do a detailed explanation of WMI events in this column, but the basic idea is that you can ask WMI […]
Read moreSome cmdlets have too many parameters to list. Is there an easy way to build a cmdlet with its parameters for the console? Just use the Show-Command cmdlet with any PowerShell cmdlet to get a GUI interface. In the following example, we use this with the Import-MDTDriver cmdlet. When you are done, you will have three options: Run, Copy (for the […]
Read morePowerShell has a built-in safety switch to many of its cmdlets. The –whatif parameter, which is meant to show you what would happen if you used a PowerShell cmdlet without actually executing the cmdlet. An example of this in action is in the following Remove-Item cmdlet. This will attempt to remove the document, HSG-Article-Sean-Should-Not-Lose.docx, without actually removing it. Remove-Item .\HSG-Article-Sean-Should-Not-Lose.docx […]
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