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Parse TOPdesk Access Logs with PowerShell
PowerShell, Access Logs, TOPdesk ·Do you know who has logged into your TOPdesk environment? Did you know that TOPdesk offers you access logs? Unfortunately the process to access these is rather cumbersome. Manually downloading and reviewing the Access Logs would take too long. Let’s use PowerShell to help us improve our log review process.
Setup
Before we can begin downloading any access logs...
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Downloading TOPdesk Database Backups with PowerShell
PowerShell, Invoke-WebRequest, PSDrive, TOPdesk ·We are going to learn how to backup the TOPdesk database using PowerShell. By default TOPdesk takes a full backup daily and keeps it for 3 days. I want to take my own backups and keep them for longer.
Setup
Before you will be able to interact with folders you will need to ensure that you have the appropriate...
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Iterate Over PSCustomObject Properties by Using THIS Hidden Property
PowerShell, pscustomobject ·Got a pscustomobject that you want to iterate through? Use the .psobject hidden property!
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Comparisons Inside Arrays - Useful and Fancy!
PowerShell ·I recently got some assistance from the ALWAYS helpful Joel Tallow with looking for ways to improve my code. He looked through some code and gave me some improvements. He also showed me some really cool bits of code and this post will cover one that I thought was useful.
# what does this...Input Object Subproperty Tip - Get the value without accepting the whole object!
PowerShell ·I was recently working on the TOPdeskPS module and came across the need to access a subproperty of an object that was being input.
[pscustomobject]@{ Property1 = 'value' Property2 = ([pscustomobject]@{ Subproperty1 =Updating HelpUri for a Large Module
PowerShell ·Contributing to open source is something that I really enjoy doing and want to do more of. I have been using the PowerShell Framework while developing modules lately (check it out!) and realized that despite having a website and a copy of all of the commands’, running Get-Help with the -Online switch wasn’t taking me to the online help...
Downloading Coding Music With Invoke-WebRequest
PowerShell, Invoke-WebRequest ·After my last post where we wrote a function the start a pomodoro timer, I got a tweet from Michael Teske sharing some awesome music to use during your pomodoro timers.
Music to Code By
I love listening to music while I code so “Music to Code By” sounds awesome!...
A Toasty Pomodoro Timer
PowerShell ·I’ve been putting some thought into how I can use my time more effectively and stumbled upon the Pomodoro Technique. The overly-simplified concept is that you work for 25 minutes and then take a 5 minute break. These are called Pomodoro timers and we are going to make our own with PowerShell.
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