March 2012 - Don Jones - PowerShell.com – PowerShell Scripts, Tips, Forums, and Resources

Zack - Day 9

0 0 1 413 2355 Concentrated Technology 19 5 2763 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Prior to reading chapter nine, which covers filtering and comparisons, I thought about how I have currently been filtering data, so far I have been using...

Published Wed, Mar 14 2012 4:03 PM by Don Jones

Julie - Day 9

Today's lunch is a great introduction to filtering. Most of the time, you don't want all of the output that the shell can produce. By narrowing down and piping only the output you need, you can produce better reports and possibly improve performance...

Published Wed, Mar 14 2012 4:04 PM by Don Jones

Will - Day 12

0 0 1 350 1997 Concentrated Technology 16 4 2343 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A while back I started digging into jobs but did not get too far. As I worked through Chapter 12 I got a lot better grip on how to use them in real world...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 4:04 PM by Don Jones

Brian - Day 13

Hard to believe, but Brian's hit the halfway point on his month of lunches! This chapter was interesting, and sort of corrected some of my thinking. I had been anticipating the chapters in this book where we would get into scripting in the VBScript...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 4:05 PM by Don Jones

Brian - Day 14

This chapter was kind of a nice break. Not any new concepts or commands, just information about security in PowerShell. Don explains how VBScript and Windows Script Host (WSH) were some pretty serious attack vectors that hackers used. There is an important...

Published Thu, Mar 15 2012 4:05 PM by Don Jones

Chris - Days 5 through 10

Chris got hit by the flu, but he's powered back and caught up in his Month of Lunches quest - proving that there's nothing that can hold you back if you knuckle down and learn! http://cmm-sysadmin.blogspot.com/2012/03/month-of-lunches-day-5.html...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:06 PM by Don Jones

Zack - Day 10

0 0 1 400 2282 Concentrated Technology 19 5 2677 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE With all the financial cutbacks and restraints on IT budgets there is often one method that allows for time saving and money saving to occur, and it is remote...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:06 PM by Don Jones

Will - Day 14

0 0 1 350 1997 Concentrated Technology 16 4 2343 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Having read a few books on security I know that VBScript got a bit of a bad reputation. Don touched on this right away in Section 14.1. The designers of PowerShell...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:07 PM by Don Jones

Will - Day 13

0 0 1 471 2685 Concentrated Technology 22 6 3150 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Batch cmdlets, as Don discusses them in Chapter 13, are a heavily used technique in PowerShell. Having come from cmd batch files, some VBScript, Perl, and...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:12 PM by Don Jones

Julie - Day 10

For today's lunch lesson, we are exploring the remote powers of PowerShell. We learn that the remote cmdlets use a new protocol called Web Services for Management or WS-MAN. This protocol transmits the data using http or https. PowerShell serializes...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:12 PM by Don Jones

Brian - Day 15

Here we have another one of Don's clever titles. I've had some experience (and written a few scripts) that included variables, but I only copied what I had seen someone else do. I remember trying to define variables (that should have been strings...

Published Fri, Mar 16 2012 4:13 PM by Don Jones

Julie - Day 13

Today was about working with bunches of objects, one at a time. This was an interesting chapter with lots of ways to do things. I was able to follow along with Don's explanation of the different ways to pull information from lots of different objects...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2012 4:13 PM by Don Jones

Zack - Day 12

0 0 1 426 2432 Concentrated Technology 20 5 2853 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Chapter 12 is all about working with background jobs, hence the title Multitasking with background jobs. I have to admit that I used to open up many PowerShell...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2012 4:14 PM by Don Jones

Brian - Day 18

We learned about remote control in Chapter 10, and Don leads off this chapter basically saying there's more ways to do it that require less work. This sort of temporarily turned me into a 10-year old boy on Christmas morning... The downside to the...