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PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 9

Hi. Here’s another update on the Sync-Folder script. The script itself is at that link but in this post I go over the changes I made and how they work.

The main addition is the support for -WhatIf (so you can test the script runs without it making changes).  In addition I fixed some odd bugs with the Filter and Exceptions parameters.  Plus some more Verbose logging and I tidied up the script a bit (removing some of the cmdlet aliases and replacing them with the full commands). Continue reading “PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 9”

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PowerShell: Tutorial 1, Everything is an Object

A series of tutorials, or How To Get Started With PowerShell:  “It’s Awesome” edition.

When I thought about what I considered the most important, fundamental thing to learn about PowerShell I went through a couple of options;  Piping?  The help system and Get-Command?  -WhatIf?

All useful things to learn, but for me it has to be how everything in PowerShell is an object.  It’s how you can build Really Cool Stuff from lots of simpler parts.

Continue reading “PowerShell: Tutorial 1, Everything is an Object”
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PowerShell: A Simple Batch Processing System, Part 1

batchHi.  I’ve written a few scripts that have gotten to be quite large.  In all cases they’ve needed to make a series of changes to a set of objects and log the results.  It’s normally important that some of the later changes only get made if the earlier ones are successful;  for example only changing the default SMTP address on a mailbox if another SMTP address was added earlier.

This series of posts will go into a decent system I’ve found for accomplishing this with some skeleton examples that are (hopefully!) easy to adapt. Continue reading “PowerShell: A Simple Batch Processing System, Part 1”

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PowerShell: Why the Count Property or += Don’t Work Sometimes

One thing that I occasionally forget (and it can take me a while to remember the fix) is some apparently strange behaviour when processing an array.  Sometimes array-based methods don’t work when there’s only one item (or no items!) to be processed.

It’s all down to PowerShell’s automatic type conversion and is pretty easy to fix. Continue reading “PowerShell: Why the Count Property or += Don’t Work Sometimes”

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PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 7

Hi. Here’s another update on the Sync-Folder script.  In this update Strict mode goes on, I make sure the statistics reset between runs, the Statistics output is rewritten and I add the option to only sync items that match a $Filter.

Update : I’ve revisited this script a few times with new additions and modifications.The latest full version of the script is here.  That post also includes links covering the other revisions to the script. Continue reading “PowerShell: Synchronizing a Folder (and Sub-Folders) Part 7”