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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Powershell and Active Directory : Find empty Active Directory Groups using Powershell.

Hi Everyone.

Finally i come back to India and it is always love to be at home.

My today’s task was to create a list of all empty active directory groups, all groups those are not having any members.

As you know, i don’t like to do the manual tasks, so i decided to use powershell to accomplished this.

Lets do it.

Import Active Directory module.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

Once, Active Directory Module is loaded, run the below command.

Get-ADGroup -Filter * -Properties Members | where { -not $_.Members} | select Name

Now , this will give you the list of all empty groups.

Now we have two groups “*ASKLAILA” and “*Hello Sir” as a result of the above command.

Now lets cross-verified our result.

I hope you find this useful.

Thanks

Aman Dhally

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Powershell Script : Get the file and Product version of Ms office Applications.

Hi,

I hope you guys are doing good.

My last two months were very busy, that why i was not able to post any article. I apologize for that.
Last week Microsoft has release few mandatory ms office update.

That update was crucial for outlook users, before apply ms office updates, we need to know, which outlook version and build my users are using.

To achieve it, i have written a tiny “Powershell” script. when you run the script, that will give you the file version and product version information of WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT and outlook.

Download Link : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-Offie-Applications-5c0bb2e1

I tested this script on “office 2010 32 bit” on windows 7 32 bit.
I hope you may like the script and found it helpful.

Thanks

Aman Dhally

Monday, April 29, 2013

Powershell Event : Barcamp9’s Powershell’s Session slides.

On Saturday i had a great day at “Barcamp9”. It was a successful event and this event is very well planned and very well managed by the event organizers.

In the “Barcamp9 Event”, we got lot’s of nice goodies like Barcaml9 printed T-Shirts, firefox sticker, magnet and pen.

unfortunately, no one was there to take my pictures , so i don’t have any of my event pics :(

You can download the event's slides from the below link.

Download presentation from this link : http://www.slideshare.net/amandhally/use-powershell-to-make-your-life-easy

Thanks

Aman Dhally

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Powershell Script : Stopwatch

Hi,

Few days back I upload a script on “Powershell Digital Clock”, when i was writing that script at that time another script idea strike in to my mind, that ideas was to create a Stopwatch using Powershell.

I don’t know writing a script for stopwatch is a good idea or not, but i know one thing that i will learn a new thing and that may be helpful in the future.

After thinking i started writing an GUI based script to creating a stopwatch.

Powershell has open lots of possibilities for system administrators like me. We just need to imagine what we want and we able to achieve it easily using Powershell.

Last week when i take a session in Delhi User Group meeting, i told attendees that Powershell is the most easiest scripting language to be learn.

Anyway.

In this “Stopwatch” i used 4 buttons, one to start the clock, One to stop the clock , one to reset the stopwatch and another is for the lap.

I am not so good in designing GUI so ignore the colour of the buttons ;o).

In this script i learn few new things.

Lesson Learned: