Consuming a WCF service with Powershell
I was recently writing a script for a client that had to retrieve data from Active Directory and a WCF service. Getting the data from Active Directory is very easy using the Quest Active Directory...
View ArticleUsing the new Active Directory cmdlets- Part 1: Active Directory Web Services...
I’m going to write a series of blogs on the new Active Directory cmdlets included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These cmdlets are included in a module that you can import into...
View ArticleUsing the new Active Directory cmdlets- Part 2: Installing Active Directory...
In this blog post I will show you how to install Active Directory Management Gateway Service (ADMGS) on a down level domain controller. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the new Active Directory...
View ArticleUsing the new Active Directory cmdlets- Part 3: Installing and loading the...
In this blog post I will discuss the Active Directory module that is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. In the previous blogs, I discussed Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) and...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell on Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
The past few days at work I’ve been working on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core server. The coolest addition to Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core is the ability to install PowerShell as a...
View ArticleRetrieve Stale Active Directory Computer Accounts
I wrote a simple function using the Active Directory cmdlets to retrieve stale computer accounts. The Get-AD* cmdlets have a parameter called “Filter” The filter parameter allows you to specify a query...
View ArticleNew Blog Site
I recently setup a new blog site at http://blog.codygros.com/blog. I will be adding new blog posts on that site now. Thanks, -CG
View ArticleSharePoint 2010, PowerShell what’s the deal?
If you love PowerShell as much as I do, you should be aware of how SharePoint 2010 takes full advantage of PowerShell. Over the past few months, I’ve been giving a presentation on managing SharePoint...
View ArticleSQL Saturday 28
SQL Saturday is only two weeks away! I’ll be presenting “SharePoint 2010 Management with PowerShell”. There are two other PowerShell sessions. One is “A PowerShell Cookbook for DBAs” and the other is...
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