I found a trick for loading ASP.NET connectionString elements from configuration files for use in PowerShell scripts, and I figured I would share it with the class. They are, as should have been obvious to me much sooner, simply XML nodes …
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Using ASP.NET connection strings in PowerShell scripts
Tags:Circumvent Get-ADGroupMember limit in PowerShell
Tags:If you've ever tried to pull the members list of a large AD group with the Get-ADGroupMember PowerShell cmdlet, you will undoubtedly have run up against an error message telling you that the limit has been exceeded. There is, however, a …
Bulk rename Subversion files with PowerShell
Tags:Scenario: We're upgrading our reporting software at work, and the way that it used to integrate with SVN (through a terrible SCC bridge) involved arbitrarily placing "app*" at the head of the file names. Of course, in the new …
Batch convert audio files to MP3 with PowerShell and VLC Player
Tags:I adapted a PowerShell script by Tim Van Wassenhove that recurses through a given directory, searching for various types of audio files. These files are then converted to MP3 using VLC Player's command-line interface. My adjustments to …
Programmatically compile Audiences in SharePoint 2010
Tags:According to the documentation for the SharePoint 2010 SDK, you cannot trigger Audience compilation programmatically. Well—that's not true. It isn't documented, but it is possible. The painful thing about it is that you must know the …