As those who follow this blog are aware, I have been working with Active Directory (AD) since it was first introduced. Over the course of my career, I have worked with organizations both large and small, new and old, and in just about every business sector you can think of. I’ve done more than a …
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Tier Access Controls: Authentication Policies and Silos
I suppose the very first thing we should cover is what “authentication policies and silos” are, and how they can help us. At it’s simplest, this functionality was introduced by Microsoft starting with Server 2012 R2. The purpose was to give a bit of a bump to Kerberos account protections by adding the ability for …
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Case of the Missing Power Query Errors (and Data)
I’ll start off by stating that I am very much not a data analyst type of person. That means I don’t know data theory, or the best approaches to building business intelligence dashboards and the like. If you are such a person, and you know of better ways of handling this, please do leave a …
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Quick Hits: Converting SQL Express to Full SQL Server
Recently I had reason to deploy a new SQL Server instance for a quick POC. As many in the scenario would, I initially chose to install SQL Express, rather than messing with license requirements and all that. As sometimes happens, after everything was already set up and configured, I discovered a need to use the …
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Promoting External Parameters
I am fully aware that I have been writing a lot of posts recently but, in my defense, work has recently left me unsupervised. This means I’ve had lots of time to spend working on fun PowerShell side projects, which naturally also means more blogs. As part of my current pet project, I had been …
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More About AST
AST can be ugly, and confusing, and it’s hard to know what to look at. This article attempts to cover some of the more useful AST classes and offer some ideas on how to use them.
Parsing PowerShell – A Follow-Up
Previously, I wrote an article on using AST and a specific ‘gotcha’ that I encountered, as well as how to work around it. If you haven’t read that article, I’d encourage you to do so. The Trouble with AST in PowerShell Today, I’m back with a new wrinkle, another work around, and a bit of …
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Read Text Content (w/o Unzipping)
What’s this? Another post? Yep, I’m on a roll. This particular installment will be relatively quick, as such things go, but I hope it will also be valuable. Use Case: View text in a Zip file, without extracting the file to disk First off, if you just want to know how to extract or compress …
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The Trouble with AST in PowerShell
Ok, if you are new to PowerShell, you aren’t going to have a clue what this ‘AST’ thing even is. AST has been covered extensively by others in the past, so I won’t go into details here (just Google PowerShell and ast). In brief, AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree, and its purpose is to …
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All Your PSBase Are Belong to Us!!
If you’ve been working with PowerShell for any real length of time, you know that PowerShell is deeply tied to the .NET framework. If you weren’t aware of that, perhaps because you only use a handful of cmdlets for limited and specialized purposes, or only use scripts posted online, well…surprise!! Everything in PowerShell, at the …
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