Dalle & DXter

TechNet Experternas Arena

By Fredrik Wall

Från och med nu finns det även en frågespalt om PowerShell på Svenska TechNets Experternas Arena, http://technet.microsoft.com/sv-se/bb966995.aspx

Där kommer jag att svara på frågor om PowerShell!
Ta även en titt på Riverpoints hemsida, där kommer det att komma artiklar om PowerShell inom kort.

When does my Opsmgr 2007 R2 eval ends?

By Fredrik Wall

I saw this little but nice PowerShell script and just want to show it.
It’s a simple way to see how many days left it is on the eval Opsmgr 2007 R2 ends.

$InstallDate = get-managementserver | where {$_.IsRootManagementServer -eq “True”} | select InstallTime
Write-host “RMS is installed on: ” $InstallDate.InstallTime
$InstallDate2 = $InstallDate.InstallTime
Write-host “OpsMgr Eval ends on: ” $InstallDate2.AddDays(180)

For more info, look at Stefan Strangers blog post here:
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/archive/2009/06/24/when-does-my-opsmgr-2007-r2-eval-versions-ends.aspx

Have moved to another employer

By Fredrik Wall

Since June 12 I have been working for a new comany as Senior IT-Consultant.
The comany are called RiverPoint AB and is located in Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden.
For more information please read the pressrelease,
http://www.riverpoint.se/filer/090612fw.pdf.
The english version are located at page 2.

I’m currently located at a customer and off work time I’m working on some translations of 2 free PowerShell books to Swedish and working on some articles on PowerShell as well.

Regards,
Fredrik

Use Active Directory PowerShell to manage win 2003-2008 DCs

By Fredrik Wall

Microsoft have been working on a solution for us to be able to use the AD PowerShell cmdlets to manage 2003 DCs too.

http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/06/23/use-active-directory-powershell-to-manage-windows-2003-2008-dcs.aspx

Very nice!

Information hunting (AD + PowerShell)

By Fredrik Wall

If you like to know more about the AD that your computer belongs to you just need to write two PowerShell lines.

$dom = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::getcurrentdomain()
$dom

And then you will get some fast information about the AD like:

Forest
DomainControllers
DomainMode
PDCRoleOwner
RidRoleOwner
InfrastructureRoleOwner
Name

To find out what more you can list easely you just type:

$dom | Get-Member