How to manage projects and Environments using Python and Spyder in Windows?

I have been fiddling around for quite sometime on how to manage more than 1 projects using the Spyder IDE which i got installed using the Anaconda Distribution. Reading through a lot of blogs, I finally understood that I failed to understand how Python works, and how Spyder works. Here i’m just going to lay […]

How to invoke a PowerShell Script from a Blue Prism Process?

Blue Prism is an enterprise RPA tool and is used in different avenues. This is aimed at people who know what BP and what BP can do. Create a simple powerShell script. something as simple as Get-ChildItem | select Name. Create a Blue Prism Object and drag and drop a code stage into the […]

Efficiently converting pwdlastset to datetime in a single line.

When querying the active directory, most of us are troubled by the datetime formats for certain attributes. Things covered in this post. Accessing Static Members of a class in PowerShell. Scope Resolution Operator. Expressions. Hashtable concept in PowerShell. If you don’t have time for all this theory. Here is a simple thing. To get […]

How to use PowerShell and MS Access together?

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2006/10/02/how-can-i-use-windows-powershell-to-pull-records-from-a-microsoft-access-database/I had a requirement earlier, where i was required to perform a lookup against a huge set of data, nearly 150K lines. Initially i used PowerShell to do a linear search, and it was taking forever. I tried different techniques, such as indexing using hashtables and many fancy stuff. But, the lookup time wasn’t coming […]

How to search for user objects using proxy address in Active Directory?

There are times when we would want to extract all user account that do not conform to a standard of having a proxy address. Or we would like to find accounts with a specific pattern within their proxy address. We can use the following PowerShell cmdlet technique, which employs using the LDAP filter and using […]

Efficient use of the Error variable.

I use PowerShell for almost all of my automation needs. And when i use them, i get errors. I usually perform bulk operations, that use an input file as the source of data. And i write a log file or an error log for each item i process. I use the $error variable to get […]

How to update multiple attributes of multiple users from a Dynamic Input file in Active Directory using PowerShell?

Simple method to update multiple attribute for multiple users, using a dynamic input file.

5 Steps to do a good graduate project.

My college days were spent mostly pondering on which area should I select to do my mini and main projects, what should be my mini-thesis paper. I’ve spent nights and mornings, with just one thought, “How do I distinguish myself from others, how do I distinguish my project from the other projects?”. Well to be […]