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Export and Import Hash Tables

I use hash tables quite a bit and with the impending arrival of PowerShell 3.0 I expect even more so. PowerShell v3 allows you to define a hash table of default parameter values. I’m not going to to cover that … Continue reading → Read...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 9:25 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, hashtable, CSV, export, import

Friday Fun: Output to 2 Places in 1

Today’s Friday Fun comes out of a short exchange I had yesterday with Hal Rottenberg on Google Plus. We were playing around with piping a PowerShell command to Clip.exe which dumps the output to the Windows Clipboard. I got to … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2012 7:50 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Write-Host, Friday Fun, FridayFun, Tee-Object

Friday Fun – A Christmas Prompt

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Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 8:00 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, FridayFun, prompt

Friday Fun Export Transcript to Script

Over the years I’ve posted variations on this technique and discuss it often in my training classes. The idea is to take your PowerShell transcript and transform it into a PowerShell script. Remember that there is very little difference between...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2011 9:58 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, transcript, Start-Transcript

Get Shared Resource

I was poking around WMI the other day in PowerShell and was intrigued by the Win32_Share class. This is a great way to find out what items are shared on a server such as printers and folders, although it’s not … Continue reading → Read...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2011 8:10 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Get-WMIObject

Test Port 2.0

A few years ago I updated a PowerShell script I came across to scan a computer for open ports. My initial revision was aimed at making it more pipeline friendly in PowerShell v1.0. I recently needed to use the function … Continue reading →...

Published Tue, May 05 2011 7:52 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, port, Write-progress, networking

Friday Fun: Start-TypedDemo v2

Not too long ago I posted a function I wrote for doing PowerShell demonstrations. My goal was to simulate a live interactive demo but without the typing so I could focus on explaining and not typing. The first version was … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, May 05 2011 8:28 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, Training, PowerShell v2.0, Write-Host, Friday Fun, ScriptBlock, Professional

Warning Signs

I was working on a project with an advanced PowerShell function. One of the goals was to take advantage of the common parameters like -ErrorVariable and -WarningVariable so that when you run the function you can save errors and warnings … Continue...

Published Wed, May 05 2011 7:14 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell v2.0, Write-Warning, Variable

Start-TypedDemo

As you know, I do a lot of presenting and training. Normally I use the ubiquitous Start-Demo function to run through a demo list of commands. Most of this time this works just fine. But when I’m doing videos, especially … Continue reading...

Published Tue, May 05 2011 9:04 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Demo, Function, Training, PowerShell v2.0, Write-Host

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