may be worth my time to take a look

I use it for back-end work on our nebulous Outlook 365 instance.

They went out of their way to come up with the most tortured syntax of any scripting language out there. Using -parameter styling for everything, including the boolean operators, gets very tiring very soon. And only popular properties have command parameters. Good luck getting/setting the rest. At best, it makes the code hard to maintain. Also, because a command sports a certain parameter does not mean that property exists on the object, or is accessible. It is up to you to crash into those.

Pipes don't work as it says on the tin. i.e. you should be able to do things like

get-mailbox -filter {foo} | set-mailbox -customattribute1 bar

but the set can't get to get's iterated object. So you have to assign the first part to a variable, which causes all the mailboxes to be downloaded to the local PC, then back. Fantastic, if you have all day.

Post #400,923 by boxley 4/15/15 6:23:10 PM Reply	may be worth my time to take a look automating manual systems checks is what I do a lot of these days. Have seen a couple of pf1 script that build some nifty forms. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
Post #401,000 by scoenye 4/18/15 11:02:56 AM Reply	It is a flea ridden dog I use it for back-end work on our nebulous Outlook 365 instance. They went out of their way to come up with the most tortured syntax of any scripting language out there. Using -parameter styling for everything, including the boolean operators, gets very tiring very soon. And only popular properties have command parameters. Good luck getting/setting the rest. At best, it makes the code hard to maintain. Also, because a command sports a certain parameter does not mean that property exists on the object, or is accessible. It is up to you to crash into those. Pipes don't work as it says on the tin. i.e. you should be able to do things like get-mailbox -filter {foo} \| set-mailbox -customattribute1 bar but the set can't get to get's iterated object. So you have to assign the first part to a variable, which causes all the mailboxes to be downloaded to the local PC, then back. Fantastic, if you have all day.
Post #401,001 by Another Scott 4/18/15 11:08:09 AM Reply	Yikes. But not surprising. :-/

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