powershell-2.0

When making a simple web request is there a way to tell the PowerShell environment to just use your Internet Explorer's proxy settings? My proxy settings are controlled by a network policy(or script) and I don't want to have to modify ps scripts later on if I don't have to. UPDATE: Great info from the participants. The final script template that I'll use for this will look something like the following: $proxyAddr = (get-itemproperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings').ProxyServer $proxy = new-object System.Net.WebProxy $proxy.Address = $proxyAddr $proxy

I have a decent understanding of C# and a very basic understanding of powershell. I'm using Windows PowerShell CTP 3, which has been really fun. But I want to go beyond writing scripts/functions. Is there any cool stuff to do with C#? JaredPar I think the most interesting thing you can do with C# and PowerShell is to build CmdLet's. These are essentially plugins to PowerShell that are written in managed code and act like normal functions. They have a verb-noun pair and many of the functions you already use are actually cmdlets under the hood. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163293

PowerShell's Get-ADGroupMember cmdlet returns members of a specific group. Is there a cmdlet or property to get all the groups that a particular user is a member of? I fixed my mistake: Get-Member should be Get-ADGroupMember . Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership will do this. Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name name ---- Domain Users Domain Computers Workstation Admins Company Users Company Developers AutomatedProcessingTeam Single line, no modules necessary, uses current logged user: (New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher("(&(objectCategory=User)(samAccountName=$(

I have the below code that goes through and gets scheduled tasks info and puts the output that occurs on the screen to a log file. However, what I have noticed is that all errors are logged EXCEPT for servers that have "Access is denied" - how can I log those errors in the log file as well. Below is the code: Start-Transcript -path $scheduledpath\logging.txt -append foreach ($name in $names) { Write-Host "Running Against Server $name" -ForegroundColor Magenta if ( Test-Connection -ComputerName $name -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue ) { #$Command = "schtasks.exe /query /S $name /fo CSV /v

I have the following script code #[string]$password = $( Read-Host "Input password, please" ) param ( [string]$ReleaseFile = $(throw "-ReleaseFile is required"), [string]$Destination = $(throw "-Destination is required") ) function unzipRelease($src, $dst) { $shell = new-object -com shell.application $zip = $shell.NameSpace($src) foreach($item in $zip.items()) { $shell.Namespace($dst).copyhere($item) } } # .\deployrelease.ps1 -ReleaseFile ".\deploy.zip" -Destination "." unzipRelease –Src '$ReleaseFile' -Dst '$Destination' I run the script with: .\deployrelease.ps1 -ReleaseFile ".\deploy.zip"