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I did see this post at joeware.com : UpToDateness Vector (UTDV) that was a follow up, at the PowerShell examples Brandon posted . As needed a break from my activities at that moment, To get my head clear, I translated it to PowerShell. Note that this was just meant as a PowerShell exercise for me, I did not look into the original Problem that ...

As a reaction to : My First Venture into S.DS.P and Powershell and the reaction from Joe : PowerShell + S.DS.Protocols Versus AdFind… , I decided to run the same tests also at my Production AD. Leaving a comment on Brandon blog failed, hence I will post the results here : Some extra test info : On my production AD ( not a real fast one ), the ...

In this translation of a Hey Scripting guy article to PowerShell based on : How Can I Map Drives Based on Membership in an Active Directory Group When the User Belongs to Multiple Groups? I tuned the example a bit as I did not like the configuration of groups and drives in the script I moved them to a CSV file also I ...

Dmitry Sotnikov has a lot of PowerShell information on his blog especially  about PowerGUI and about the AD Cmdlets from Quest has made a very handy  Quick Reference to AD cmdlets 1.0.4 with links to the all the entries he made on his blog about using the different AD Cmdlets. A great resource when discovering ...

Over on microsoft.public.windows.powershell, it’s been asked how to mail-enable an AD user in an Exchange 2003 Environment. The MS supported way involves CDOEXM (part of Exchange System Manager) which seems to be rather difficult to use from powershell. In reality, you can usually get away with using [ADSI] to modify several key attributes on ...

In my presentations with Bruce Payette at the Developer IT Pro Days in Belgium we did show a lot if community resources , Bruce did show the Gac Provider and some utilities from the Community Extension project on CodePlex in both of the sessions and In the March 29, 2006 Thinking PowerShell  session I did show ...

Another “from usenet to blog” entry.  Someone wanted to a list of all users in their Active Directory created after a specific day. Like most AD related tasks, this is fairly easy in Powershell, but you do have to be aware of one tricky piece. LDAP queries require a specially formatted string to represent date/time. For this, we’ll query the ...

One question that has come up a couple of times in the newsgroup 'microsoft.public.windows.powershell' is how to get more than 1000 records from an Active Directory query, particularly when using get-adobject (from the Powershell Community Extensions). Unfortunately, for the moment there is no way to retrieve more records using get-adobject. I'm ...

This is the Third entry, of a series of posts indexing the PowerShell Blogitems on my Old Blog /\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled  it covers Augustus and September, but I left out the 11 part Active Directory Series I will cover them in a separated post.   BlogIndex /\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled October - November 2006   PowerShell RC2 and ...

This is the first entry, of a series of posts indexing the PowerShell Blogitems on my Old Blog /\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled I have been asked a couple of times for a list or an index to the Entries on my Old blog as some of the information and examples are bit hard to find. I often search my old blog on keywords (for example ...