03.11.2020 Do you know that feeling when you use your favorite search engine with “this should be easy, someone will already have figured out how to do this” in mind? This is how my work on the topic I´m describing in this post started. And because this blogpost exists, you might assume correctly that this…
Category: Powershell
Installing Novell ZEN-Works Client in SCCM OSD Tasksequence
Hi there, I know, I know, why would you install the ZENworks Client when you got SCCM? Well, sometimes that´s just the way it is… Installting the ZENwork Clients is not as easy as it may seem. There is an installer that brings everything needed and so I started by just running that installer during…
PowerShell interactive filter with Out-GridView
Recently, during the first meeting of our new south-german PowerShell Usergroup, Rolf Masuch showed us a nice feature which I didn´t know: Using Out-GridView as interactive filter. Here is how to do it: The magic parameter is –PassThru ! If you want the user to select, let´s say, some services to stop, you just can…
#Powershell – Compare a list of values against a list of values #PoSh
Hi everyone, recently I had to solve the following problem: I had to split up a list of costcenters and names in a csv-file based on the costcenter. In the first iteration the requirement was pretty easy: “If the costcenter is beginning with a 5 then the usernames shal be put into file “List1.txt”. There…
#Powershell Oneliner: Delete Personal / Machine Certificates
While searching for a solution to delete a personal machine certificate, I again found Powershell to provide the best solution. Let´s say you have a machine certificate Issued by CA “testca.domain.bla” and want to delete it. This is solved in a one liner in Powershell Version 3: get-childitem -path cert:localmachinemy | where {$_.Issuer -like…