Displaying slide show on same monitor with PowerPoint 2013

1. Click the Slide show ribbon bar
2. Select the Window presentation option
3. Hit F5

TFS file date and time

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15230328/timestamp-when-getting-latest-from-tfs-and-does-it-matter

Amazon online chat location

Finding the contact us link on amazon is like trying to find a needle in a haystack these days.

Finally located it properly, rather than googling “amazon online chat” as I have done in the past…

Extract job titles from AD using powershell

For a given list of userids in a file called users.txt use the following powershell command in the same directory


Get-Content users.txt | foreach {Get-ADUser -Identity $PSItem -Properties mail,title | select -Property mail, title} |Export-Csv users.csv

Or use this to find new starters in the organisation...

$lastWeek = (get-date).AddDays(-31);

Get-ADUser -Filter "Description -like 'London'"  -Properties Name, Title, Manager, whenCreated, DistinguishedName, LastLogonDate | ? whenCreated  -gt $lastWeek | select Name, Title, Manager, whenCreated, DistinguishedName, LastLogonDate | fl

Note: For windows 7 desktop users you’ll need to install the active directory modules for powershell by following the installation steps here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=7887
For all active directory attributes / propery names, see this link here
http://www.kouti.com/tables/userattributes.htm
Another way to have done it would have been usng SQL via a linked server
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2580/querying-active-directory-data-from-sql-server/
e.g.
SELECT     *
FROM OPENQUERY( ADSI,
    'SELECT samaccountname, mail, title, sn
     FROM ''LDAP://dc=companyname,dc=com''
     WHERE objectCategory = ''Person'' AND objectClass= ''user''
     AND userprincipalname = ''*'' AND mail = ''*'' AND SN = ''*''
         ORDER BY useraccountcontrol
      ')
      Where
      samaccountname= ‘myaccountloginname’

Powershell cruise control build output parser

<#
.Synopsis
   Write-XmlPathOutput processes all files in a directory for a given XPath expression and puts the results to .txt files of the same name
.EXAMPLE
   Write-XmlPathOutput -DirectoryPath DirectoryPath -XPath //*/project
.INPUTS
   DirectoryPath - the path to the directory
   XPath - the xpath you wish to use
.OUTPUTS
   .txt text files in the same directory
#>
function Write-XmlPathOutput
{
    [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Parameter Set 1',
                  SupportsShouldProcess=$false,
                  PositionalBinding=$false,
                  HelpUri = 'http://merrickchaffer.blogspot.com/',
                  ConfirmImpact='Medium')]
    [OutputType([String])]
    Param
    (
        # Param1 help description
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
                   ValueFromPipeline=$true,
                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
                   ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false,
                   Position=0,
                   ParameterSetName='Parameter Set 1')]
        [ValidateNotNull()]
        [Alias("p")]
        [String]
        $DirectoryPath = (Get-Location).Path,

        # xpath help description
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false, ParameterSetName='Parameter Set 1', Position=1,
                    ValueFromPipeline=$true,
                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
                   ValueFromRemainingArguments=$false )]
        [Alias("x")]
        [String]
        $XPath = "//*/project/@file"

    )

    Begin
    {
    }
    Process
    {
        if ($pscmdlet.ShouldProcess("Target", "Operation"))
        {
            $files = Get-ChildItem (Get-ChildItem $DirectoryPath\*.xml)
            if ($files -ne $null -and $files.Length -gt 0) {
               
                ForEach ($file in $files) {
                 
                  $OutFile = [string]::Concat($file.FullName, ".txt")
                 
                  Select-Xml -Path $file.FullName -XPath $XPath | Select -ExpandProperty Node | Out-File $OutFile

                }
            }

        }
    }
    End
    {
    }
}

Write-XmlPathOutput -DirectoryPath C:\temp -XPath "//*/project/@file"