April 2012 - Don Jones

I've been getting a lot of questions about some of PowerShell Remoting's trickier configuration scenarios - so many that I decided to sit down and figure it all out, documenting every step of the way. With some help from a CloudShare 6-machine...

Chapter 21 in Month of Lunches is about creating your own cmdlets and modules. As a brand new learner of PowerShell, I found this chapter very difficult and had to spend a lot of time trying to understand. There was couple of things that moved me forward...

0 0 1 283 1615 Concentrated Technology 13 3 1895 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Overall completing the goal that I set for myself (Read Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches actually on my lunches) has been extremely rewarding...

0 0 1 340 1940 Concentrated Technology 16 4 2276 14.0 96 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I have been waiting to write this until after I had put a little of my new knowledge to use in the 2012 Scripting Games. Basically here is what...

I'm going to share a modified entry from this year's scripting games: $Path = "C:\2012SG\eventX" if ( Test-Path $Path ) { Write-host $Path " is present" Get-Service | Select Name, Status | Out-File $Path + serviceX.txt } else...

I'm seeing a large number of people add this to the top of their Scripting Games scripts: [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True,ConfirmImpact="Medium")] Okay, that's all well and good to declare that you support ShouldProcess (meaning...

Today's lunch is what I would call the "odds and ends" chapter. It starts with a discussion about customizing your PowerShell. I liked the tip to create a profile.ps1 file in $home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\. I needed to create the WindowsPowerShell...

Check this out: "The computer " + $hostname + " has been up for " + $uptime .days + " days, " + $uptime .hours + " hours, " + $uptime .minutes + " minutes, " + $uptime .seconds + " seconds as of "...