Use PowerShell to require users with the oldest passwords to change their passwords

This PowerShell script will help you find the Active Directory users who have gone the longest without changing their password, and then require them to change their password the next time they logon to a domain resource. Consider this a password policy on a bell curve that targets those users who have the oldest Password …

Load PowerCLI into the PowerShell session as a module

Last year, VMware wrote about “PowerCLI 6.0 – Introducing PowerCLI Modules.” Although I’ve been using PowerCLI 6.0 since then, I missed the note from Alan Renouf that made it easy to load all of the PowerCLI functionality into a PowerShell session as a module instead of having to launch PowerCLI. Here was his tip/trick: 1 …

Running PowerShell as different user

If you want to launch PowerShell as a different user other than administrator, you won’t find a Run As menu to enter other credentials. After a bit of searching, I found that the following code works best in launching a new PowerShell windows as a different user. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 …

Upcoming Pure Storage User Group Meeting April 20 at The District Tap

The next Indianapolis Pure Storage User Group will be held on April 20 between 4 pm and 7 pm at The District Tap (3720 E 82nd St, Indianapolis, IN 46240). Cody Hosterman, a solution architect for Pure Storage, will talk about data reduction techniques for their storage array. Come learn how to reclaim some of …