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Rename Hashtable Key Revised

Last week I posted an advanced PowerShell function to rename a hashtable key. As usual, the more I worked with it the more I realized it was missing something – namely the ability the take a pipelined object. My original version assumed you had...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 8:54 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Pipeline, parameter, hashtable

Join PowerShell Hash Tables

I received a lot of feedback and interest in my ConvertTo-Hashtable function. One question I received was “Why?” Well, one reason might be that you want to combine two objects into a single object. Joining them as two hashtables makes this...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 10:01 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, hashtable

Convert PowerShell Object to Hashtable Revised

A while back I posted an advanced PowerShell function that would take an object and convert it to a hashtable. The premise was simple enough: look at the incoming object with Get-Member to discover the property names then create a hashtable with each...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2013 8:29 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, get-member, hashtable

Rename Hashtable Key

I use hashtables quite a bit. Often generating hashtables on the fly from other sources. But sometimes the hashtable keys that come from these external sources don’t align with what I intend to do with the hashtable. For example, one of the nifty...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 1:18 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, hashtable

Hyper-V ID Hash Table

In Hyper-V, one of the challenges (at least that I’ve run into) has to do with naming. In addition to a name, Hyper-V objects such as virtual machines, are identified with a GUID. Most of the VM-related PowerShell cmdlets will let you specify a...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 11:11 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, hashtable, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012

Create PowerShell Scripts with a Single Command

One of the drawbacks to using a PowerShell script or function is that you have to write it. For many IT Pros, especially those new to PowerShell, it can be difficult to know where to start. I think more people would write their own tools if there was...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2012 12:04 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Function, PowerShell ISE, hashtable, ISE

PowerShell Hyper-V Memory Report

Since moving to Windows 8, I’ve continued exploring all the possibilities around Hyper-V on the client, especially using PowerShell. Because I’m trying to run as many virtual machines on my laptop as I can, memory considerations are paramount...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2012 8:20 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, hashtable, Powershell 3.0, Out-Gridview, Windows 8, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012

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

Convert Text to Object

Today I have another tool in my new battle regarding turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. The bottom line is we want to have objects written to the pipeline. At the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt there was a … Continue reading →...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2011 8:09 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, DeepDive, Conferences, new-object, objects, hashtable, CommandLine

Friday Fun Convert Object to Hash Table

I’ve been working on a few PowerShell projects recently and one requirement I had was to turn an object into a hash table. I thought this was something that was already handled in PowerShell but I couldn’t find a cmdlet … Continue reading...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2011 9:13 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Function, Friday Fun, Miscellaneous, objects, get-member, hashtable

Friday Fun What a CHAR!

Last week I posted a PowerShell snippet on Twitter. My original post piped an array of integers as [CHAR] type using an OFS. Don’t worry about that. As many people reminded me, it is much easier to use the -Join … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2011 9:00 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, FridayFun, ScriptBlock, hashtable, Array

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