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Using the ConvertFrom-String cmdlet to parse structured text

Bartek Bielawski
11 Min To Read
09 Sep, 2014
- How to

One of PowerShell strengths has always been string manipulation. PowerShell has very good support for regular expressions–using both cmdlets and operators.

Testing the effectiveness of Get-Random

Matt Graeber
6 Min To Read
28 Jul, 2014
- How to

An ongoing argument I’ve seen in the PowerShell community is regarding the effectiveness of random numbers generated by the Get-Random cmdlet.

Using PowerShell to troubleshoot the Exchange mailbox creation process

Emin Atac
3 Min To Read
24 Jul, 2014
- Exchange
- How to

I’ve been recently tasked by the team responsible for user account management to investigate why a user mailbox wasn’t created along with its Active Directory account.

Automating deployments in Configuration Manager with PowerShell

Deepak Dhami
4 Min To Read
22 Jul, 2014
- How to
- Sccm

Introduction First of all, thanks to PowerShell magazine for giving me this great honour to post an article here. There have been a few articles about Configuration Manager in PowerShell Magazine–one by PowerShell MVP Trevor Sullivan is especially …

Using PowerShell to discover information about your Microsoft SQL Servers

Mike Robbins
8 Min To Read
21 Jul, 2014
- How to
- SQL

I’m an infrastructure guy who supports many different products at multiple datacenters in an enterprise environment. One of those products is Microsoft SQL Server which I’ve been supporting since version 6.

Dynamic Parameters in C# Cmdlets

Ben Ten
15 Min To Read
23 Jun, 2014
- Pscmdlet
- How to

In my last article I wrote, I covered how to create dynamic parameters in a PowerShell cmdlet. If you haven’t read that article, please read that one before continuing with this one as I reference it several times in this article.

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