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Group Data using PowerShell

I’ve been running an audit on Active Directory (AD) recently, with a view to sending emails to multiple users based on AD group membership. Rather than sending a separate email to each user in an AD group (adding load to...

January 30, 2020

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PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths

Sometimes when writing PowerShell scripts we encounter an issue where PowerShell cannot locate UNC paths correctly. PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths Take the following chunk of code; make sure you change the UNC path to a valid path, and run...

January 21, 2020

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Installing and Uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell

This blog post shows code that can be used when installing and uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell. You can adapt the code to add more parameters (public properties etc) as necessary. You can use this chunk of PowerShell code to...

December 11, 2019

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Find Newly Launched Processes

This simple chunk of code will find newly launched processes (specifically their process IDs) that have started between a given period: $existingProcessPids = Get-Process -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select -ExpandProperty Id #new processes launched here start-process notepad.exe start-process cmd.exe $newProcessIds =...

October 31, 2019

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Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell

This blog post proposes a consistent method of obtaining the current working directory using PowerShell, whether your scripts are embedded inside an executable or not. Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell I tend to use a great tool called...

October 10, 2019

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List Certificates for Local Machine and Current User

This PowerShell script will list certificates for local machine and current user certificate stores. get-childitem -Path Cert:\ | foreach-object ({ $location = $_.Location foreach($store in $_.StoreNames.Keys) { get-childitem -Path "Cert:\$location\$store" | foreach-object ({ $thumb = $($_.ThumbPrint) $issuer = $($_.Issuer) write-host...

July 18, 2019

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Find the Membership Count of all AD Groups in an OU

I was working on an application migration recently, and wanted to see how many users/computers were in each application Active Directory (AD) group in a specified Organisational Unit (OU). I wrote a PowerShell script to find the membership count of...

March 22, 2019

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Charting with PowerShell

This post is heavily plagiarised from here. But sometimes I see an interesting nugget of code and like to make sure I never lose it, and this piece on charting for PowerShell is no different! I’ve made a few tweaks...

March 13, 2019

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Using PowerShell and Selenium for Browser Automation

Selenium is a portable software-testing framework for web applications. It’s pretty cool (in a geeky way) and is primarily used to test web applications. In this instance we’re using it to launch Internet Explorer, load a web-based helpdesk dashboard on the intranet, log into...

December 6, 2018

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Invoke-Sqlcmd Returns Columns RowError and HasErrors

I’ve been performing some SQL queries recently using PowerShell and Invoke-SqlCmd, but I’ve noticed that by default Invoke-Sqlcmd returns columns RowError and HasErrors. Here is a simple example of returning a list of devices (a single column of data) from...

November 21, 2018

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Category: PowerShell

Group Data using PowerShell

PowerShell Cannot Locate UNC Paths

Installing and Uninstalling an MSI using PowerShell

Find Newly Launched Processes

Obtaining the Current Working Directory using PowerShell

List Certificates for Local Machine and Current User

Find the Membership Count of all AD Groups in an OU

Charting with PowerShell

Using PowerShell and Selenium for Browser Automation

Invoke-Sqlcmd Returns Columns RowError and HasErrors

PowerShell Script Support for Installing and Uninstalling Intune Win32 Applications

Use PowerShell to Read MSI Windows Installer Properties

Evergreen Application Packaging converting Winget to MSIX

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