As I was converting my VBScripts to PowerShell, I reviewed one which checks for the password expiration of a user in Active Directory. The blog post I’ve had sometime last year extracts object properties and one of them is the pwdLastSet property which specifies a 64-bit value of when the user last changed their passwords. […]
>As a preparation for my TechEd Asia 2008 session on Windows PowerShell, I’ve been trying to convert a few of my administrative scripts to demonstrate how easy tasks can be done using PowerShell. Here’s one I just did: simple PING test. Here’s a sample VBScript code that checks whether a PING test is successful or […]
>In case you’re wondering why on earth your PowerShell scripts don’t run, its because scripting in Windows PowerShell is not enabled by default. Imagine your custom .NET assemblies being blocked until such time you register them on your global assembly cache (GAC). This is to make sure you don’t run just about any script on […]
“To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’”– Lao-tsu – […]
I have to admit that I am a self-confessed workaholic. Most of us will probably do what I do – stick to what we have always been doing, thereby creating a habit. While this is a good practice to get ourselves master what we do well, it also hinders our ability to grow in some […]