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Powershell: Convert String to Scriptblock

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If you use PowerShell remoting in some scripts you will se you cannot use a string to send it with the Invoke-Command cmdlet.

So you can simple convert a String to a Scriptblock

 $scriptBlock = [Scriptblock]::Create($string)

Now here an example

$remoteCommand =
@"
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
New-ADOrganizationalUnit -name
"@

$scriptBlock = [Scriptblock]::Create($remoteCommand)

Invoke-Command -ComputerName AD01 -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock

Basically you could create a function for that.

function ConvertTo-Scriptblock  {
<#
 Function to Convert a String into a Script Block
#>
	Param(
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $true,
            ParameterSetName = '',
            ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
            [string]$string
        )
       $scriptBlock = [scriptblock]::Create($string)
       return $scriptBlock
}

Convert Word Documents to PDF with Automator

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I got a lot of Microsoft Word Documents form one of our professors at KTSI. But Evernote only supports text recognition inside PDFs. So I converted all Word Documents to PDF with the Mac OS X Automator.

How to convert Word Documents to PDF:

  1. Open Automator under Mac OS X
  2. Add a “Get Specified Finder Items” object
  3. Select the Word Documents
  4. Add another “Convert Format of Word Documents” object
  5. Set the Format to ” Portable Document Format (PDF)”
  6. Now click run and the Automator will convert all your Word Documents and you can find them in the same folder as the Word Documents

Mac OS X Automator

Cheatsheet: Using Diskpart on a Server Core installation #4

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Using Diskpart on a Server Core installation. Disk Administration or Partition a disk.

Create a new partition and format a partition

SELECT DISK 0
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
ASSIGN LETTER=E
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="New Volume" QUICK
EXIT

Commands you may then issue at the DISKPART prompt:

LIST Disk
LIST Partition
LIST Volume

SELECT Disk n
SELECT Volume n
SELECT Partition n

DETAIL Disk
DETAIL Partition
DETAIL volume

HELP
REM (remark/comment)
EXIT

Commands to Manage Basic Disks:

(set the current in-focus partition to be the system partition)

ASSIGN (allocate the next free drive letter)
ASSIGN LETTER=l (Choose a free letter)

CREATE PARTITION Primary Size=50000 (50 GB)
CREATE PARTITION Extended Size=25000
CREATE PARTITION logical Size=25000

DELETE Partition

EXTEND Size=10000

REMOVE letter=l (Remove drive letter l from the in-focus partition)
REMOVE /ALL (Remove ALL current drive letters and mount points)

Commands to Manage Dynamic Disks:

(set the current in-focus partition to be the system partition)

ASSIGN (allocate the next free drive letter)
ASSIGN LETTER=l (Choose a free letter)

ADD disk=n (Add a mirror to the in-focus SIMPLE volume on the specified disk.)

BREAK disk=n (Break the current in-focus mirror)

CREATE VOLUME Simple Size=n Disk=n
CREATE VOLUME Stripe Size=n Disk=n,n,...
CREATE VOLUME Raid Size=n Disk=n,n,...

DELETE DISK
DELETE PARTITION
DELETE VOLUME

EXTEND disk=n [Size=n]
IMPORT
ONLINE

REMOVE letter=l (Remove drive letter l from the in-focus volume)
REMOVE /ALL (Remove ALL current drive letters and mount points)
RETAIN

Commands to Convert Disks:

CONVERT mbr
CONVERT gpt
CONVERT dynamic
CONVERT basic

CLEAN ALL (remove all partition and volume info from the hard drive)
RESCAN