PowerTip: Use PowerShell to remove a user from all site collections in...
Summary: Learn how to use PowerShell to remove a corporate user from all site collections in SharePoint Online. How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly remove a corporate user from all site...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to maintain IIS logs
Summary: Learn how to use PowerShell to maintain and work with IIS logs. Welcome back guest blogger, Terri Donahue. Here are Terri’s previous blog posts. Terri is a Senior Customer Support Engineer for...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to report on SharePoint content with custom (dingbat) characters
Summary: Learn how to use PowerShell to retrieve SharePoint list item values as dingbat symbols to make HTML reports simple and clean. Can you show me an example of how to report on my SharePoint data...
View ArticlePowerTip: Identify the numeric value of a custom (dingbat) character using...
Summary: Use PowerShell to determine the value of an Extended ASCII character to reproduce it for later use. I have a really simple question that’s been bugging me. I have a string with a special...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to integrate with the Lync 2013 SDK for Skype for Business –...
Summary: Get started with the Lync 2013 SDK by using PowerShell to manage Skype for Business 2016 client. How do I integrate Windows PowerShell with the Lync SDK to manage Skype For Business client?...
View ArticlePowerTip: Use PowerShell to list all possible colors in the console
Summary: Use PowerShell and enumeration to access all possible colors that you can use in the console. Is there a way to see all of the available colors that I can use when using Write-Host? We sure...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to integrate with the Lync 2013 SDK for Skype for Business –...
Summary: Learn how to extend PowerShell with Lync 2013 SDK to explore groups and contacts information in Skype for Business 2016 client. MVP Chendrayan Venkatesan is back again to show us how to get...
View ArticlePowerTip: Use PowerShell to retrieve the date and time of the given time zone ID
Summary: Use PowerShell to pull out specify TimeZone data from an object. I have data retrieved from an external source that contains different time zone IDs like W. Europe Standard Time, AUS Eastern...
View ArticleScripting Guys at Ignite 2016 in Atlanta
SUMMARY: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about the Scripting Guys booth at Ignite 2016 in Atlanta. Good morning everyone. Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, here. So, the day has finally...
View ArticlePart 1 – Install Bash on Windows 10, OMI CIM Server, and DSC for Linux
Summary: Learn about the Windows Subsystem for Linux that runs on top of Windows 10. Today we have a guest article written by Stefan Roth. Take it away Stefan … Hi, my name is Stefan Roth, and I am a...
View ArticlePowerShell regex crash course – Part 1 of 5
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter...
View ArticlePowerTip: How to escape characters in a string using regular expressions
Summary: Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how escape characters for use in regex. Is there a way to escape characters in a string automatically for use in regex? Use the...
View ArticlePart 2 – Install .NET Core and PowerShell on Linux Using DSC
Summary: Learn how to configure and use PowerShell, Bash, and desired state configuration (DSC) with Linux. Today, Cloud and Data Center MVP Stefan Roth returns for Part 2 of his three-part series...
View ArticlePowerShell regex crash course – Part 2 of 5
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud and Datacenter...
View ArticlePowerTip: How to detect phone numbers using regular expressions
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to use regex to detect if a string is a phone number. I have an array like $phoneornot = @('780-123-4567', '780 321 6548',...
View ArticlePowerShell regex crash course – Part 3 of 5
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter...
View ArticlePowerTip: How to detect a valid Active Directory user name using regular...
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how use regex to detect if a string is a valid Active Directory user name. The invalid characters for an Active Directory user name...
View ArticleSpeed up remote PowerShell connection to Exchange
Summary: Speed up the connection to Exchange by importing only the cmdlets that you need. Is there a way to speed up the initial PowerShell connection to Exchange? Yes, of course! With a little...
View ArticlePowerShell regex crash course – Part 4 of 5
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter...
View ArticlePowerTip: How to use regular expressions to split a string without losing the...
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to split a string without losing the character you split on. I’m splitting this file name some file.txt into its name and...
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