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Thanks, Don. I've voted and commented.
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Hopefully I understand this correctly. Part 1: You're attempting to find all Active Directory users who have an old server name used in their HomeDirectory path or in their ProfilePath. Part 2: you...
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Thanks for the input guys. I'll research what Don was talking about as it looks like there is a very good example of it from Mike. My explanation of the second option was a little wayward. Essentially...
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Hi Guys, Can someone tell me why I get $TRUE with this? $foo = @('A','B','C') if ($foo -Contains 'X') {Write-Output $foo} if ($foo -Contains 'X' -or 'Z') {Write-Output $foo} A B C Thanks
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if (($foo -Contains 'X') -or ($foo -Contains 'Z')) {Write-Output $foo} Should give you what you expect.
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I have a script that will export outlook contacts. It seems that I am unable to export the notes field. $TempPath="$env:Userprofile\appdata\local\microsoft\outlook\" $strname=$env:username #New-Item...
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Remove folders in a directory but keep the three latest (creation date)
Hi admins! Im very new to powershell but ive heard that this is the place to ask questions/learn powershell. I have a website where code is deployed to a directory. (d:\websites) Every time some...
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If you read about_Operators, -or is a Logical operator used to 'to connect conditional statements into a single complex conditional.' Comparison operators such as -contains, -like, -eq … are doing...
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Two cool things Powershell does is Sort easily and also has -WhatIf for testing. If the Powershell version is v3 or higher, you can use -Directory versus the PSIsContainer logic: $files =...
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To clarify further, this expression: ($foo -Contains 'X' -or 'Z') is a compound of the following two expressions: $foo -Contains 'X' 'Z' $foo -Contains 'X' is obviously false. The expression 'Z',...
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If you did a Select *, you should see all of the attributes and figure out which one is "Notes". On my client, it appears to be 'Body'. So, add Body to your Property array
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This is one of those problems that is quite handily solved with a single pipeline, thanks to PowerShell's handy generic -Object commands for filtering / sorting / selecting: Get-ChildItem D:\Websites...
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It's interesting that Z returns true if it's casting it as boolean. Boolean is typically translated to a 0 or 1 to indicate a false or true. A bit misleading…
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Hi Rob! Seems to work the way i want it but i dont understand some of the variables (($i=0;$i -lt ($files.Count -2);$i++)) Gonna try to look it up. Many thanks
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Was not aware of the -Skip parameter. Learned something new!! @Johan The for "i" is a standard in most programming\scripting logic. When using notation, i represents integer and s is string and so on....
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Thanks Dave! Your one-liner was even better for me. ( I understand whats happens :))
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Boolean is always through of as just 0 and 1, it's more accurately Zero and Non-Zero with 0 being False, and everything else being true. Although this varies from language to language on how it gets...
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Rob, Thank you for the information. I am going to have to play with the Select * and figure out that works so I can get a better fell of things. I am going to assume this will also help with the...
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You can additionally use Get-Member to see what properties are available. However, in this case I wanted to look for my test text in the Note field, so I used Select * to return all properties and...
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Not sure who posted it, but I noticed that a copy of the code I provided was posted on PoshCode.org: http://poshcode.org/5367 I'm honestly flattered, although a link to this post would have been...
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