A switch in time
Profile: Richard Siddaway
I’ve posted about the switch statement a number of times but it is one of those topics that keeps coming up. Imagine you have a variable that can take one of several values. Depending on the value you might want to perform different actions like this
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Active Directory & testing for user’s existence
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When you are creating a new user you may want to test if a particular name is already is use. The Quest AD cmdlets provide great functionality but one area of confusion is where you are searching for a user by name:
PS> Get-QADUser -Identity "GREEN Dave" | ft -a
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Clearing all telephone information for an AD account
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I had a question through the blog asking how you could clear the telephone, pager and ipphone information from a user account.
Telephone information in AD appears on the General tab telephone and Other.. And on the telephone tab there is home, mobile, pager, fax and ipphone...
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UK PowerShell group – December 2012
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Last meeting of 2012 – PowerShell jobs and scheduled tasks
When: Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)
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PowerShell jobs provide the ability to perform long running background tasks. With the introduction of...
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Powershell Resources
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I’ve reorganised the slide packs and recordings for the UK PowerShell group. You can find them here
Introduction to PowerShell workflows
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The recording, slides and demo scripts from tonights session are available at
Workflow session reminder
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The re-scheduled UK PowerShell group session on workflows will happen tomorrow. Details from
Kindle Fire quirk
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Quick report of an oddity that I discovered with the Kindle Fire. If you copy an ebook in mobi format onto the Fire you can read it with no problem. If you select remove from device when you have finished reading the book it disappears from the list on books on the device. The file...
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PowerShell Group Session
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I seem to have fixed my audio problems so I’m re-scheduling the session
When: Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)
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Workflows are one of the big things in PowerShell v3. This session provides an introduction and overview of this...
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Apologies for meeting failure
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Apologies to all who tried to attend the Live Meeting tonight – I had audio problems that I couldn’t resolve.
I’ll reschedule the session when I’ve fixed the problem
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