Category Archives: Powershell

$domain = get-addomain | select -expand distinguishedname $facilities = “facilityname” $OUS = “Groups”,”Kiosks”,”Laptops”,”Users”,”Workstations” foreach ($facility in $facilities) { New-ADOrganizationalUnit “$facility” foreach ($OU in $OUS) { NEW-ADOrganizationalUnit “$OU” –path “OU=$facility,$domain” } } A very simple script I made to quickly create some OUs with sub-OUs inside. Basically all I need to add is facility names and …

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I’m playing with a new storage backend so I wanted to create a whole bunch of VMs, then edit them, then stop them, then start them. Here’s how I did it. Here’s the end result. Now here’s how I did it. $value = 1..10 $vmstore = “C:\VMDATA\VM POOL\” $vmparent = “C:\VMDATA\VM POOL\Server 2012R2 Parent.vhdx” foreach ($number …

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Before getting into this, I’d like to discuss the pipeline a bit. In the pipeline you have to ways of passing objects, by value (typename) or by property name (which is powershell’s second try)   For example, let’s see what kind of objects get-process creates by piping get-member to it (I use the alias GM) …

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