Granular Administrative Permissions with DSC
I would like to learn more about using DSC to get very granular with administrative permissions on desktops. At TechEd one of the presenters mentioned you could really lock down most admin...
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What you're looking after is the "Just Enough Administration" (JEA) toolkit. Jeffrey Snover's TechEd 2014 session, available on Channel 9, would be a good starting point.
View ArticleReply To: Powershell + HTML
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I try to use an in document style sheet, but it all depends on your comfort with CSS, here is an example I use on the Inactive AD Computer Report I generate. $HTMLhead = @" Inactive Computer...
View ArticleData entry scripting – an interesting challenge
The company I work for recently a week-long outage of a ticket system that resulted in a lot of wasted time and energy to recover the backlog of tickets. I have been tasked with implementing a system...
View ArticleSuggestion: EnhancedHTML2: Highlighting a single cell in a row
Hi I use EnhancedHTML2 and needed the ability to highlight only a single cell within a row. To achieve this I edited EnhancedHTML2 as follows: Replaced: if ($prop.ContainsKey('css')) { $cell_css =...
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Few questions: - What's your ticketing system? Is it something like Remedy, or Service Manager, or . . . and what version? I need to know that to identify how and where data is stored. For example,...
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Reply To: European Summit sales are live
Hi Kieran! I just registered and got the confirmation email. It's my first Powershell Summit. Looking forward to meeting like-minded PowerShell enthusiasts and having a great time in the evening. Best...
View ArticleQuestion: Running Powershell script remotely with custom parameters
Hello Guys/Girls, I am trying to run this script remotely from a Windows 2008 R2 # ##################################################################################### # SCRIPT_NAME: runJMXClient.ps1...
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Look at the -Argument parameter of Invoke-Command. There's a defined mechanism to do what you're after.
View ArticleList of all GPO's with their links.
I'm brand new to PS, and have tried using the various helps for both the Get-ADOrganizationalUnit and Get-GPO cmdlets, but I can't seem to get what I need. I found a script online which (I export to a...
View ArticleReply To: Suggestion: EnhancedHTML2: Highlighting a single cell in a row
I guess I'm a bit confused; the CSS property used by EnhancedHTML2 accepts an expression. That expression should output a CSS class name, based on whatever logic you put into the expression. You then...
View ArticleReply To: List of all GPO's with their links.
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit returns an OU. OU objects don't know anything about linked GPOs. Get-GPO returns a GPO object – e.g., a representation of the file on disk. It has no idea where it's linked....
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Thanks for the info. Regarding the first link, I am able to register the cmdlet and successfully run it against my domain. However, it only seems to do one path at a time (top-level OU for example). I...
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I'm also having the same issue with the SDM cmdlets in the second link. I can get everything to run if I specify the OU or CN, like this, Get-SDMgplink -scope "OU=Servers,DC=example,DC=com" However, I...
View ArticleReply To: Suggestion: EnhancedHTML2: Highlighting a single cell in a row
Hi Don Yes you can apply different css to each field and it works fine. However, I didn't want to create multiple expressions (one for each field). My solution works by allowing a single expression to...
View Articleget-childitem output
I'm trying to get people to clean up old files. Never an easy job. To help them out, I want to generate reports of their department folders. One report would list their Powerpoint files, another PDFs...
View ArticleReply To: Suggestion: EnhancedHTML2: Highlighting a single cell in a row
I see. You're just not wanting to put an If construct into each property definition. Sure… I think it makes the code a bit harder to follow, but that's just a personal aesthetic. What would perhaps be...
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