Tag Archives: Powershell

Quick Hits: Set the Default Property Display in PowerShell on Custom Objects

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Boe Prox

Whenever we write a function or a  script and choose what properties to display, we are usually greeted with the usual display of every single property that we used instead of what the the PowerShell cmdlets and other module cmdlets … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and Events: WMI Temporary Event Subscriptions

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Boe Prox

It’s been a while since my last post in my series on PowerShell and Events (February to be exact), but now that I have some projects caught up, it is time to make a return to wrap up this series … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits: Determine Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Boe Prox

Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. Given, I could have done something with dsquery or dug in using the ADSI type accelerator to connect to my … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Deep Dives Book Now Available!

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Boe Prox

That is right! After a lot of hard work, the PowerShell Deep Dives book will be available (Print edition) on 26 July with the e-book available now. As one of the co-authors of this book, I can tell you that … Continue reading →

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Create a Hard Link Using PowerShell

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Boe Prox

Following on the heels of my last article where I talked about creating a symbolic link using PowerShell, I figured I would throw another script out there that will do what mklink.exe does with creating a hard link and do … Continue reading →

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