For this week’s tip we will review the use of CSV’s and PowerShell. While it is almost always better to not use CSV files for output or object manipulations, there

When working with objects in Active Directory and Exchange Server with PowerShell changing an attribute may not be as easy as specifying a parameter for a particular PowerShell cmdlet. The

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When writing a recent blog post, I noticed that some text I had copied from a website to quote certain specifics, had misspelled words and missing dashes in words. How

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When building a complex script in PowerShell, remember to bite off only what you can chew successfully. This means that you probably can’t code an entire script one setting, so

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Putting PowerShell to sleep. Seems cruel. But it is necessary sometimes in order to either wait for another process or for an operator to read output. In this week’s PowerShell

Production servers require a lot of attention and configuration before they are ready to be put into service. For this article we’ll work on an oft overlooked configuration item for

While writing up some new scripts I ran into some issues which resulting in some troubleshooting, brainstorming and re-writing of the original code.  This article was written to pass along