System Administration

Powershell: Word/Excel Helper Functions

2014-03-17 3 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Using powershell I wrap up MS Word and Excel COM objects within a custom psobject. This object contains a handful of methods for making docx and xslx creation and manipulation easier.

Powershell Tip: Save and Load Calculated Property Definitions

2014-02-10 3 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Using Export-CliXML and Import-CliXML (as well as some custom code) you can save calculated properties in a file for later use. Although the need for something like this is rather infrequent the exercise can better familiarize you with multiple Powershell techniques and concepts.

Powershell GUI Script Wrapper Utility

2014-02-03 3 min read Microsoft Powershell System Administration Zachary Loeber

Creating GUIs for your scripts can be a tedious process. That is why I don’t do so for each powershell project I release. Instead of wasting my precious little free time putting together yet another GUI for a one off script I decided to create a tool which will create the GUI scripts for me automatically!

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