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Using Select-Object with PowerShell

A couple of days ago I wanted to check which products were installed on a computer using PowerShell. And throughout my journey I discovered how we can format the output of returned data by using Select-Object with PowerShell. Take this...

November 1, 2018

PowerShell

Move or Copy Active Directory Users

There are many occasions where I need to move or copy Active Directory users from one group to another. Usually this occurs when an application has been updated to a new version, and we need to migrate users from the...

September 5, 2018

PowerShell

Install and Uninstall an MSI using PowerShell

This is an example of how to install and uninstall an MSI using PowerShell. It passes in a string array as the msiexec arguments. So you can add more arguments as you see fit. Pay close attention to the quotes...

July 18, 2018

PowerShell

Using a Hashtable to store Key/Value Pairs

This is a simple example of using a Hashtable to store key/value pairs. Rather than referencing a value in an array using a numeric index, we now have named (the key) human-readable values that we can use to reference a...

November 14, 2017

PowerShell PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory

Use ADSI to Check if a Computer is a Member of an AD Group

[catlist name=”PowerShell ADSI and Active Directory” conditional_title=”Other Posts in this Series:” numberposts=5 pagination=yes customfield_orderby=”series_post_order” order=”asc”] This post provides an example of how we can use ADSI to check if a computer is a member of an AD Group using the...

June 29, 2017

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Check if System.Object[] contains a value (Updated)

This isn’t the most interesting of blog posts admittedly. But I was using the SQL Server Management Objects (SSMO) in my PowerShell script to return a result set from a stored procedure in SQL server. The data set returned from...

May 16, 2017

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Export to CSV using PowerShell and Dynamic Data

This post explains how to export to CSV using PowerShell and dynamic data. I find that hashtables are quite useful for various scenarios when scripting in PowerShell. We can also utilise them when exporting data using Export-CSV. I provide two...

May 4, 2017

PowerShell

Get Filenames and Versions in Folders and Subfolders

This is just a quick one-liner that I use to get filenames and versions in folders and subfolders. I tend to use it every now and then to compare two folder structures on different machines, and then I can use...

April 5, 2017

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Write to the Windows Installer Binary Stream using Powershell

Here’s a small chunk of code from a recent request asking how to write to the Windows Installer binary stream using Powershell: $msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly = 0 $msiOpenDatabaseModeTransact = 1 $windowsInstaller = New-Object -ComObject windowsInstaller.Installer $pathToMSI = "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\AlkaneExample.msi" $database2 = $windowsInstaller.GetType().InvokeMember("OpenDatabase", "InvokeMethod",...

February 10, 2017

PowerShell

Count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV

This post provides an example of how to count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV. This script finds all AD groups beginning with ‘MSI – ‘ or ‘App-V – ‘ and returns the number of members...

February 6, 2017

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Category: PowerShell

Using Select-Object with PowerShell

Move or Copy Active Directory Users

Install and Uninstall an MSI using PowerShell

Using a Hashtable to store Key/Value Pairs

Use ADSI to Check if a Computer is a Member of an AD Group

Check if System.Object[] contains a value (Updated)

Export to CSV using PowerShell and Dynamic Data

Get Filenames and Versions in Folders and Subfolders

Write to the Windows Installer Binary Stream using Powershell

Count members of an AD Group and write to a CSV

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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