June 2011 - The Lonely Administrator - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Get File Utilization by Extension

In the past I’ve posted a few PowerShell functions that provide all types of file and folder information. The other day I had a reason to revisit one of them and I spent a little time revising and expanding. This … Continue reading →...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 10:03 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Measure-Object, Invoke-Expression, Files, Jobs, Get-ChildItem, Group-Ojbect

ScriptBlocks On the Fly

I’m always preaching about writing PowerShell scripts and functions with reuse and modularization in mind. You should never have to write the same block of code twice. But what about in the shell during your daily grind? Perhaps today you’re...

Published Mon, Jun 20 2011 7:38 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, ScriptBlock, Invoke-Command

Get WMI Namespace

PowerShell and WMI just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, beer and pretzels, or salt and pepper. However, discovering things about WMI isn’t always so easy. There are plenty of tools and scripts that will help you … Continue...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2011 9:50 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, WMI, PowerShell, PSCredential, Invoke-Expression, Get-WMIObject

Managing VirtualBox with PowerShell

In my line of work I simply can’t afford not to use virtualization, and I use just about all the major tools from time to time. But most of the time I rely on the free VirtualBox program from Oracle. … Continue reading → Read More.....

Published Mon, Jun 13 2011 11:10 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, module, Software, VirtualBox

Get PowerShell View Definitions

When you write objects to the pipeline in Windows PowerShell, at the end of the pipeline PowerShell’s formatting system handles displaying the results to the console. It accomplishes this by using a set of rules stored in XML configuration files...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 7:43 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, xml, format-list, format-table, switch, ps1xml

Creating ACL Reports

I saw a tweet this morning that was a PowerShell one-liner for capturing folder permissions to a text file. There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s hard to be truly productive in 140 characters so I thought I would take … Continue reading...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 8:08 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, xml, Best Practices, Export-Clixml, Get-ACL, Out-File

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