November, 2013

The yearly Microsoft MVP Global Summit will lift its curtain on Nov 17th in Bellevue, WA.  This year, we have prepared three new apps and many new samples in response to MVPs’ feedbacks last year.  If you are attending this year’s Microsoft MVP Global Summit, you will have the privilege to kiss or bite their development team  

• Sample Browser Windows Phone app – with 6000+ MSDN code samples which will be at your fingertips anytime and anywhere.
• Script Explorer for PowerShell ISE – with 8000+ script sample which will be at your fingertips when you are writing scripts in PowerShell ISE.
• PowerShell checkin policy for TFS – automatically checks your PowerShell script code against best practices of PowerShell.

Interested?  Please open your Schedule Builder for the MVP Summit 2013, and register for the event called “OneCode & OneScript” on Nov 17th.  We look forward to seeing you and learning your feedback.

Script Download: ForceAutomaticRestarts(PowerShell).zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-force-automatic-195fbe07

This script can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates.

Whenever after updates, the server does not reboot immediately. However if we remote into the server we will receive a notice that you have to restart the computer in three days. If the restart does not occur in three days, the computer displays a 15-minute countdown and then automatically restarts. By default, this automatic restart is delayed if the computer is locked, and the countdown will begin the next time that you sign in to the computer.

This script can help to force automatic restarts to finish installing important updates.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: CheckPre-requisiteFixesSQLServer2012AlwaysOn.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Check-pre-requisite-fixes-d5843842

This sample script checks pre-requisite fixes for AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2012. These fixes are publicly documented in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878487.aspx (Prerequisites, Restrictions, and Recommendations for AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server)), in section “Windows Hotfixes that Support AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Windows System)”.

Installing prerequisite fixes is not checked during configuration of SQL Server AlwaysOn, however may result in unexpected issues later.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: AutomaticEmail(PowerShell).zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Automatic-Email-Notificatio-31e71980

The goal of this script is to automatic email notification to Administrator about Inactive accounts in Active Directory.

For management administrators always intend to identify the inactive user/computer accounts that have not logged on the domain for a certain period of time, then they could determine to disable, delete or remove these accounts. Rather than administrator manually finding out inactive accounts when he needed, automatically generating an inactive user/computer accounts report and sending a email notification to administrator would be much better.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: RemoveDelegatedPermission.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Script-to-check-and-delete-94c6c6e6

The script helps us to check and delete all delegated permission of the user.

As we know, there isn't a delete delegated permission wizard in Windows Server. If we want to delete all delegated permission and restore users' permission to default, we have to use ADUC and other tools such as Dsrevoke to check and delete each user's permission manually. Once we have the script, we could reduce a lot of work.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: SetSPUserPicture.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-PictureUrl-as-default-9e0123ca

This script shows how to Set PictureUrl as default unless another picture is present.

This script will set a default picture for the PictureUrl in a list where all user information are stored .If users don't specify a picture, the default picture will be used.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery