Today I read Don Jones' article in the December 2007 edition of TechNet Magazine entitled "Digging Deeper". In the article Don suggests taking a few minutes a day to review a cmdlet.

Populating my Outlook tasks with a cmdlet a day seemed like a good script project. So after borrowing liberally from Lee Holmes' "Precision Computing" blog entry on Outlook Task Automation, here is what I came up with.

$cmds = get-command | select name | %{"Reveiw the "+$_.name+" cmdlet"}

$objcol = @()

$daysadd =1

foreach ($cmd in $cmds){

$tskitem = ""|select Description,Dt,Tm,Category

IF ((Get-Date).adddays($daysadd).dayofweek -eq "Saturday" )

{

$daysadd = $daysadd +2

}#end if

elseif ((Get-Date).adddays($daysadd).dayofweek -eq "Sunday")

{

$daysadd = $daysadd +1

}#end elseif

$tskitem.Dt = (Get-Date "8:30 AM").adddays($daysadd)

$tskitem.Tm = (Get-Date "8:30 AM").adddays($daysadd)

$tskitem.Description = $cmd

$tskitem.Category = "PS cmdlet Review"

$objcol += $tskitem

$daysadd = $daysadd +1

}#end foreach

$olTaskItem = "olTaskItem"

$olFolderTasks = "olFolderTasks"

$outlook = New-Object -Com Outlook.Application

foreach ($tsk in $objcol){

$task = $outlook.Application.CreateItem($olTaskItem)

$task.Subject = $tsk.Description

$task.Categories = $tsk.Category

$task.DueDate = $tsk.Dt

$task.ReminderTime = $tsk.Tm

$task.save()

}#end foreach

$outlook = $null

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The script seems to work fine so long as the category already exists in Outlook ( I didn't test to see if it works if the category does not exist).
Comments and suggestions are welcome....

Thanks

It works fine, and creates the category, BUT you need to either have Outlook wrappers or use the constants as follows:

$olTaskItem = 3
$olFolderTasks = 13

(From Lee Holmes blog) http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/GettingThingsDoneOutlookTaskAutomationWithPowerShell.aspx

While I'm at it, you should make it more "powershell like"

I don't like tasks, I like calendar items, and I'm in meetings at 8:30, so I want to be able to do something like:

set-learning -time 13:30 -duration 30 -type calendar -reminder 3 -private true -display free

This would make it a calendar item, with a 3 minute reminder, at 1:30 PM, lasting 1/2 hour, show it as FREE time, and set it as a private item.

Or, since I'm an Exchange guy, let me choose which cmdlets to use like:

set-learning -subset exchange

Or something like that.

However, for what you wanted to do, it works great!

Karl