Here’s a great one liner I use all the time to run a report get our user’s O365 licenses. This should go without saying, but make sure you’ve installed the MSOnline module. Then connect with Connect-MSOLService. You should get an output similar to this: You could add a Export-Csv or Convertto-JSON | Out-file .\filename.json if […]
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Press any key to continue……powershell style.
Such a simple thing really, but so handy if you want to pause somewhere in a script to read some sort of output before continuing. One of the most common ways to pause a script is to use the Read-Host command like this: 1 Read-Host -Prompt "Press enter to continue"Read-Host -Prompt "Press enter to continue" […]
Errors? What errors? Oh…..that $error.
We all hate it when your script throws an error. I mean they’re great when you’re writing the script. They help you figure out what’s wrong, but what if you need to keep a log of any errors after you’ve deployed the script? Recently, I was putting a script together to a script to alert […]
Download files with Powershell and Invoke-WebRequest
While there are quite a few ways to download files with powershell, my usual go to if I’m limited to strictly powershell is Invoke-WebRequest. Here’s an example: 1 Invoke-WebRequest https://urltofile.com/file -OutFile "C:\pathtofile.bleh"Invoke-WebRequest https://urltofile.com/file -OutFile "C:\pathtofile.bleh" While not as elegant as say wget or curl, it does the trick when there are no other options besides […]
Wait…You Can Invoke-Command directly to a Hyper-V VM? This Changes so Many Things.
Why yes, yes you can, and it’s called Powershell Direct . I had no idea was a thing until we decided we were going to switch some of our VMware stack over to Hyper-V. The gist of it is, instead of having to go through the whole process of enabling WinRM on your VMs, whether […]
Enabling WinRM. Quick n’ Dirty.
All this blogging about running scripts on remote PC’s, servers, etc, and it suddenly dawned on me that I take for granted that I’ve had to first setup the ability to remotely manage all of these devices. So if you want to do all those snazzy things like Enter-Pssession or Invoke-Command you’ll need to enable […]
When you need a little extra padding. A short story about .padleft() and .padright()
Today, I found myself with a small dilemma. I needed to do a user data extract from Active Directory, massage the data a bit, spit out a CSV, and the upload the CSV to a piece of software we use. Easy, simple, no problem….until the software wasn’t putting people into the places they were supposed […]
Domain Memberships via ADSISEARCHER
Every once in awhile I need to run a script against the domain membership of a user that logs on. It’s great for having a printer get installed for a certain group of users, putting certain shortcuts on users desktops, to displaying a message to only specific groups. The little snippet of code below has […]
Shut up Test-NetConnection!
Ever get tired of seeing this when you use the test-netconnection command? Me too. I like nice neat readable outputs and test-netconnection is particularly ugly. I’ve had been dealing with it for years brushing it off like an annoying gnat that’s frustrating, but not quite bad enough to make you go get the flamethrower to […]
Speedtest.net CLI + Powershell
A few days ago I found myself needing to do a an internet speedtest at one of our remote offices. Users were complaining about “slow speeds” when they tried to connect to (definitely not Facebook or Youtube they told me) some of our business applications, email, etc, etc. Generally I like to do things without […]