My colleague Rob (Check out his Blog here) and I have been hard at work creating a runbook in Orchestrator 2012 to automate account creation for our organisation. While looking at the process and running some tests, we found a flaw in the substring PowerShell command thanks to John Doe! The Error: $sn = “Doe”$sn.Substring( 0, […]
The Remote Desktop Services Profile Path allows you to configure the user profile environment for when a user remotely connects to an RD Session Host server. You can set the remote profile path using the Quest Active Directory Set-QADUser and Get-QADUser. $Username = “samaccountname”Get-QADUser $Username | Set-QADUser -TsProfilePath “\ServerShare$Username”
Need to email the results of a PowerShell script? Not using Microsoft System Centre Orchestrator? Well the below might help. $smtp = “mailserver”$to = “Recipient Address”$from = “From Address”$subject = “Enter Subject Line” $body = “Dear User$to “$body += “This is a HTML test email HTML email “$body += “Click here to open […]
When creating a new user object via PowerShell in a large organisation, it is important that we check for duplicate addresses before creating an account. The script below is an example of how we could do this. $givenname = “Enter first name here”$sn = “Enter last name here”$Name = “$givenname.$sn” $defaultname = $name$Exit = […]
The below converts the first character of $givenname and $sn variables to uppercase. This is useful if you are receiving information from an external form and need to convert them to a useable format. $givenname = Read-Host “First Name:” $sn = Read-Host “Last Name:” #Converts first letter of First/Lastname to uppercase$givenname = $givenname.substring(0,1).toupper()+$givenname.substring(1).tolower() $sn […]
Trying to find an all users whose email address contains particular text? Try: Get-ADUser -Filter {Mail -like *Joe.Bloggs@*’} You can also use -contains or -eq if using a specific address.
Creating a user account via PowerShell? Are there many Joe Bloggs in your organisation? Want to check if BloggsJ already exists before creating the account? Well the below script will help. It runs through and checks if the user exists. if true, it will add a 1 on the end of the name and keep adding 1 until […]
