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hi, Good God, a nice challenge :-). If I understand you correctly, you have two issues. Speed and memory consumption when the script runs. Ideally you would like a script that runs fast without...
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So, there’s a differences between the application-level encryption and the HTTPS channel. If the goal is to use Basic authentication, WinRM wants you to use HTTPS. That means you have to set up a...
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When you use Invoke-sqlcmd what you get back is a collection of System.Data.DataRow You need to do something like this $tcpport = (Invoke-sqlcmd -ServerInstance “MyServer\MyInstance” -Query “select...
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Thank you guys so much! the -expand did exactly what I needed! And I am taking the “distinct” advice as well.
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Dave – you’re a gem! Got my script finished and it’s saving me soooooo much manual work! Cheers buddy – someone needs to create an ‘Add-Beer’ cmdlet.
View ArticleAdding sequence number column to a result
Hi, I’m using the command below to get a list of some accounts on our Exchange Online: get-mailbox | ?{$_.ArchiveQuota -like "25*"} The result is: Name Alias ServerName ProhibitSendQuota —- —– ———-...
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Sure, that can be done. If you want to sort the output, though, you’ll wind up holding the entire result set in memory temporarily, which may cause an OutOfMemory error. Here’s a basic example of...
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I love this example Dave. Very very simple and much better than my old method of doing it.
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hi, I try to spread love and understanding about powershell anywhere and any time. Every time I start using Add-Member, people either love it(about 10%) or ask me if there is another way. In my bag of...
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The only reason I would choose that approach (several extra lines of code, not quite as easily read) is if it performed significantly better, and I wanted to optimize the code to perform well over a...
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I just wanted to followup on this in the off chance that it may help some one later. What I wound up doing was taking the string from the external process and using the DOS echo command to pipe it...
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yes, I know there is a performance hit. That was not the point. Sure, I have “several” extra lines of code, however my code example with the same select you have, is actually 36 characters less to...
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I didn’t use aliases or positional parameters in my example the way you did with Select-Object, and I also used PowerShell 2.0-compatible syntax. If character count matters, that line could be written...
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I am currently trying to convert some c# code for the SCOM SDK to powershell, however I am struck on this line: IObjectReader<MonitoringObject> reader =...
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If I remember correctly, there’s currently no way to call generic methods from powershell. I’ll test it later today and see if I can get it working.
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Scratch that. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18774889/how-do-i-call-a-parameterless-generic-method-from-powershell-v3 gives an example of how to accomplish this using Reflection: $nonGenericClass...
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Hi Dave, Thanks a lot for the fast reply. Worked like a charm! But there’s a big space on front of the columns, do you know why? PS C:\Office 365> get-mailbox | ?{$_.ArchiveQuota -like "50*"} |...
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You can add the -AutoSize switch when calling Format-Table to address that. Like sorting the list, this requires that the entire result set be temporarily held in memory, but since you’re already...
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Thanks once again! You’re the best =]
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