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Re: Powershell and Single vs Double Quotes

Tiho — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:12:27 -0000

It's very interesting topic, especially when using quotes with get-aduser commands. I use this command:
get-aduser -filter "name -like '*$fullname'"

Re: Powershell and Single vs Double Quotes

Christian McGhee — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Liked the post but the original tweet used for reference is gone. Probably should make an edit to include examples

Re: Raspberry Pi and the dreaded undervoltage notifications

Elijah Chen — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:11:26 -0000

Thanks bro helpful

Re: Using PowerCLI to find a specific guest IP

Cytek — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:08:43 -0000

your line returns VM object ...code above returns screen output showing IP address found and name of VM

Re: Custom Windows installs, injecting drivers and features - TheGeekery

Fabian — Tue, 18 May 2021 09:20:33 -0000

The generated ISO is only suitable for BIOS or CSM Boot. If you want UEFI Boot, you have to replace the oscdimg parameter -bf:\build\... with -bootdata:2#p0,e,bf:\build\windows\boot\etfsboot.com#pEF,e,bf:\build\windows\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin

Re: Removing XML Elements Using PowerShell

H Masri — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:44:09 -0000

Had to make some changes but thanks for this 👍

https://stackoverflow.com/q...

Re: Wrapping my head around iCal

Philip Whitehouse — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:04:31 -0000

Thanks so much for providing the Chicago implementation - saved me a bunch of time!

Re: Raspberry Pi and the dreaded undervoltage notifications

Jonathan Angliss — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:13:25 -0000

That's interesting. I didn't observe that when I was running the tests through a power meter. I'll have to do some more playing. Thanks for the note.

Re: Raspberry Pi and the dreaded undervoltage notifications

Owen Carter — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:47:22 -0000

Its also worth noting the official PI power brick is tweaked to the upper end of the PI's voltage supply specification; 5.4 volts I believe.

Re: Hunting IP Conflicts on a Windows Network

C F — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:28:45 -0000

Too bad ms seems to be rewriting cmd/powershell commands from scratch in w10 & not updating documentation till problems surface

Re: Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found - TheGeekery

NimrodGenX — Wed, 22 May 2019 11:11:22 -0000

Excellent post, saved me a lot of grief and time. We had updated our certs and SharePoint operated fine...until the servers were rebooted some 30+ days later. I gave our wildcard cert a friendly name, updated the settings.xml file noted above, rebooted and we were back in business. For the record, I did NOT bother giving the cert a friendly name on the other SharePoint servers, only the OWA one and we are functioning perfectly. Thank you very much.

Re: Set-DnsServerResourceRecord and OldInputObject Not Found

Gustavo Herrera — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:55:51 -0000

Your article saved me! Three and a half years after you wrote it, it as as valid today (May 10, 2019) as when you wrote it. Thank you very much!

Re: Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found - TheGeekery

Stein Åge — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 03:53:20 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Set-DnsServerResourceRecord and OldInputObject Not Found

John G Hohengarten — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:46:08 -0000

Thank you! This 3-year old post is still valid today (11/14/2018), since I still find this issue today in PSVersion 5.1.17134.228

Re: Powershell and Single vs Double Quotes

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:54:12 -0000

How would double-quotes break the command?

get-aduser -filter "name -like `"*$fullname*`""

Re: Powershell and Single vs Double Quotes

bdone — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:50:47 -0000

how can you do:
$fullname = read-host "what is the full name?"
get-aduser -filter 'name -like "*$fullname*"'

it won't expand the $fullname, but double quotes breaks the entire cmd...

Re: vSphere Storage vMotion times out at 32% when crossing SANs - TheGeekery

Alberto Vazquez — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:56:09 -0000

Does this require a reboot of each of the ESXi hosts in the cluster?

Re: Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found - TheGeekery

Brittzkrieg — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:25:32 -0000

This was exactly my problem. Thank you for posting this!

Re: PowerShell: Top x Processes using CPU

Matthew Henry — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:55:41 -0000

This seems not to work. The percentages always add up to far more than 100%.

Re: Powershell, and importing XML scheduled tasks

Wayne Smith — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:55:09 -0000

I had to add a "| out-string" to the end of line 11 to make it work. Other than that, this is a much easier way to do it!

Re: vSphere Storage vMotion times out at 32% when crossing SANs - TheGeekery

c0b1 — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:48:27 -0000

Thanks a lot for this article.
I've had the same issue while doing Storage vMotion from Equallogic to EMC Unity on vSphere 6.5 U1b.
After turning of VAAI I was able to move the VM between arrays.

Re: Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found - TheGeekery

Jonathan Spino — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:04:15 -0000

I was one click away from reinstalling Office Web Apps when I saw this. It worked great and everything is back up, Thank You!

Re: Powershell, and exporting Windows Scheduled Tasks

Oubliette — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:27:47 -0000

Try re-running as administrator

Re: Replace SSL on Office Web Apps Farm and certificate not found - TheGeekery

King Fu — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:16:28 -0000

This saved me a lot of time. Thanks a bunch. This occurred when we changed certs on the sharepoint farm.

Re: Lync, Federation, and DNS

Simon Jackson — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:59:59 -0000

I had a similar issue, Configuring the SIP Federation for LyncOnline.. had a typo in it.

I didn't spot the typo on within the mgmt app, but via powershell (and log files) i did. the spelling of the access Service FQDN was "sipfed0E.online.lync.com]" when of course in the gui it looked perfect.

I deleted the SIP Federation hosted provider, and used powershell to add another.. "sipfed.online.lync.com"

I had to force replicate the database content, and then run the Edge server installation step 2 wizard; finally close the test Lync client and start again.. worked perfectly!

This article helped me resolve all my DNS issues:
https://blogs.technet.micro...