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Summary: Curly Blue learns how to use GitHub resources on PowerShell to clean out old office installations. When we last saw our hero, Curly Blue, he had been hanging around the office of Azura and discovering the simple ways he could use Windows PowerShell with minimal learning. In the past few days, he’s seen how easy it is to work and access f...

Summary: Use the Common Information Model (CIM) cmdlets to pull a list of active sessions to remote workstations. How can I find active CIM sessions on my workstation? Just use this one cmdlet to list all active CIM sessions, and you’re done for the day!

Summary: Curly Blue discovers the raw power of Cim-Instance combined with PowerShell remoting. We continue with Curly Blue as he searches understand the meaning of scripting. He is still sitting in the office with Azura. The co-op student, Hermie, has run off to chase something that wandered into his phone. Virus or virtual creature, nobody can e...

Summary: Use Active Directory cmdlets to identify locked-out user accounts and computer accounts. Is there a quick and easy way to find all users who are locked out in Active Directory by using PowerShell?   You’ll love this. The answer is just one cmdlet away with the ActiveDirectory module. Just use Search-ADAccount, and you’ll have a co...

Summary: Curly Blue learns how to use built-in PowerShell script examples in Windows. Yesterday we met our new friends, Curly Blue and Linux. Curly had started his new job as a IT Professional at Contoso. The challenge for poor Curly was that he had never learned scripting or, for that matter, gotten into the spirit of it. He had mastered a uniqu...