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Introduction to windows powershell with sharepoint. In fact for my needs, an online thing is good enough. If textual, you might be able to find a way to parse the text, i have a script i wrote that can take a pdf that has fields, get the data from the fields and update those fields, havent tried anything with a pdf that is strictly text based no data fields. To list all the cmdlets that are available in the active directory module, use the getcommand ad cmdlet. Home powershell powershell script for creating indexes 21 jan 2010 by grant fritchey 1 comment i needed to create an identical index on a bunch of tables within one of my projects yes, i know this is problematic on multiple levels and im working on that too.
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