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windows-powershell-docs reviews and mentions

• PowerShell Syntax Issues
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 19 Jan 2023

  It is because you use the -Filter parameter from Get-ADUser, which uses PowerShell Expression Language Syntax. This can cause some quirky behavior because the syntax is very strict. An interesting discussion on the topic can be found here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs/issues/180

• Creating a Scheduled Task with a Group as User?
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 12 Jul 2022
• 970 Evo plus detected as Microsoft storage space (Windows 10 Pro)
  1 project | /r/WindowsHelp | 16 May 2022
• Beginner Trying To Use PowerShell IISAdministration Module
  2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 26 Feb 2022

  What I'm having the most problem with is knowing where to get information. I am a moderately experienced .NET developer (Framework and Core) used to digging through Microsoft docs to figure out how to do the thing I need to accomplish. I just can't seem to find the info I need. I looked up the cmdlet reference for IISAdministration and found a far smaller set of cmdlets than WebAdministration supported. This GitHub issue tells me that Microsoft seems to have no interest in adding specific cmdlets for many tasks, preferring instead to have us interact with the ServerManager object directly. So, I pull up the docs for Get-IISServerManager which tells me how I can get an active Microsoft.Web.Administration.ServerManager object. However, there is nothing here to tell me what I can actually do to work with this object that I can find - no API, no properties, just a pitiful three examples on getting the manager, listing sites, and recycling an app pool. Five of the eight recommended articles are for WebAdministration, the module they seem to be deprecating. If I search ServerManager from the list, I find an object that has cmdlets that deal only with Windows Features and remoting. If I Google for IISAdministration info, I find lots of articles on basic site setup but not what I need, such as setting custom headers for a site. I was able to find this site which talks about web configuration but it has no documentation or examples for PowerShell. I found this page that tries to direct users to a snap-in that has been deprecated. I found this page that points users at a link for the IIS Administration API that is defunct.

• Can't seem to pull users (password set never to expire) from multiple OU's within powershell.
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 27 Dec 2021

  Hey I know this is somewhat irrelevant to your question, but the -Filter parameter does not take a scriptblock, it actually take a string. You can refer here for more information.

• How to combine Get-ADUser filters with 'enabled -eq $true'
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 23 Dec 2021

  Some more info here... https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs/issues/180

• If get-aduser contains Proxy Address then write to CSV else
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 7 Oct 2021

  Yeah, that's not going to work because Get-ADUser's filter parameter isn't a true script block.

• A colleague deleted 10k+ devices from Azure AD when I was on vacation
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 16 Sep 2021

  On the other hand, the -Filter property on the ActiveDirectory module pretends that it's a script block, but it's actually a string. It also pretends that it's Powershell syntax, but there's dozens of caveats where they work totally differently. And if you hit one of these oddball corner cases, you can easily end up with a -Filter parameter that's always true.

• Get -ADObject filter syntax correct?
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 3 Apr 2021
• How to get past 5000 limit, pulling down user accounts from AD
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 20 Jan 2021

  I followed docs, but not specs and from a few postings, the documentation seems to be wrong then: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs/issues/180

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