PowerShell OneLiners

This page contains tips and guides for common PowerShell One-Liners and short scripts.

Document Creator:   todd walters

Basic PowerShell Starting Info

How to Install and Configure PowerShell

Add Snapin

·         add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin 

·         add-pssnapin quest.activeroles.admanagement

·         add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Set Excecution Policy

·         Run set-ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted

Show Entire Forest

·         Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True

Bind to Domain

·         connect-QADService -service domainname

• $pw = read-host "Enter password" -AsSecureString connect-QADService -service 'server.company.com' -ConnectionAccount 'company\administrator' -ConnectionPassword $pw

Test Dry Run

·         Use -whatif

Common PowerShell One-Liner Categories

• Hosts Info,Servers, Computers One-Liners
• GroupManagement One-Liners
• Shares and Filesystems One-Liners