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Half off Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches

Today, Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches is part of Manning’s Deal of the Day. This is the book for the absolute beginner and will teach you literally in a month of lunch breaks all you need to know to get started with PowerShell...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 8:31 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Powershell 3.0, Manning, Books

Get Local Admin Group Members in a New Old Way

Yesterday I posted a quick article on getting the age of the local administrator account password. It seemed appropropriate to follow up on a quick and dirty way to list all members of the local administrator group. Normally, I would turn to WMI (and...

Published Tue, Apr 02 2013 9:15 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: functions, Scripting, PowerShell, Invoke-Command, CommandLine, remoting

How Old is the Admin Password

Here’s a quick one-liner to find out how old the administrator password age is on a remote machine. PS C:\> ([adsi]“WinNT://COMPUTERNAME/administrator”).passwordage.value/86400 This requires RPC/DCOM access to the remote computer...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2013 11:01 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, ADSI

Test Hyper-V VHD Folders with PowerShell

I’ve recently added a USB 3.0 Express Card adapter to my laptop to provide USB 3.0 functionality. The added performance is very useful in my Hyper-V setup. However, I am running into a glitch that I have yet to figure out where the external drives...

Published Mon, Apr 01 2013 9:53 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Test-Path, Hyper-V, VHD, Test-VHD

PowerShell Books Rule

PowerShell related titles continue to rule the roost, at least for Manning. Based on recent sales PowerShell titles occupy 40% of the top 10 list! I’m hoping this trend will continue later this spring with publication of the PowerShell Deep Dives...

Published Mon, Mar 18 2013 10:13 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Manning, Books

Friday Fun PowerShell Puzzlers

This week’s Friday Fun is a short PowerShell puzzler which I hope you’ll have some fun with and maybe even lead you to look something up and how knows what that might lead to! The following scrambled terms are all PowerShell related. The ones...

Published Fri, Mar 15 2013 9:05 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, Miscellaneous

TechDays San Francisco

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at TechDays San Francisco this year. The event runs May 2nd and 3rd. You can find the schedule here. Registration will be forthcoming. Seating will be limited so you won’t want to...

Published Tue, Mar 12 2013 10:18 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Conferences, Windows Server, Active Directory, Powershell 3.0, Windows 8, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, TechDays

WMI Explorer from The PowerShell Guy

Several years ago, The PowerShell Guy, aka MoW, wrote a fantastic graphical PowerShell script that was a WMI Explorer. With this script you could connect to a computer and namespace, browse classes and view instances. A great way for discovering things...

Published Fri, Mar 08 2013 10:16 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell

Friday Fun Get Beer List

Well, another Friday and what goes better with it than beer. Of course I should mix in a little PowerShell as well. I live in the Syracuse, NY area and we have a terrific local brewery, Middle Ages Brewing Company. Not only is there a tasting room, but...

Published Fri, Mar 08 2013 8:03 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, Powershell 3.0, Invoke-WebRequest

Get Scheduled Job Results

One of my favorite features in PowerShell 3.0 is the ability to run a PowerShell job as a scheduled task. I can easily setup a PowerShell background job to run a script but have it registered as a scheduled task. All you need is PowerShell 3.0. The job...

Published Tue, Mar 05 2013 9:18 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Powershell 3.0, Scheduled Jobs

PowerShell Deep Dive Authors at the PowerShell Summit

A question went out today about what authors of the forthcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book would be at the PowerShell Summit. We’re hoping to have the book out by then so you can get you hands on it. From what I can tell these authors will be at...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 6:30 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Conferences, Books

PowerShell in the Big O

I am speaking at SQL Saturday #197 in Omaha, NE on Saturday, April 6th. But even better, I will be doing a full day pre-conference session on Friday. The title of my session is Prof. PowerShell: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PowerShell. For...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2013 8:57 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Conferences, Powershell 3.0, SQLSaturday

On the Road

After a long winter I think is time for a road trip. I will out and about over the next few months, hopefully speaking at an event near you. Many of the events are free or charge a small fee, but all I hope will be worth your time. These are the events...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2013 9:22 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Conferences, Professional, Powershell 3.0, Prof. PowerShell, speaking

PowerShell Morning Report with Credentials

I had an email about trying to use my Morning Report script to connect to machines that required alternate credentials. For example, you might have non-domain systems in a DMZ. Fair enough. Since most of the report script uses WMI, it wasn’t too...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2013 7:51 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Get-WMIObject, HTML, Get-Eventlog, Reporting, splatting

Set GPO Status with PowerShell

Last week I dropped in on a class Jeremy Moskowitz was teaching on Group Policy to talk a little PowerShell. I was demonstrating the Get-GPO cmdlet and talking about the object you get back and how you can use it to filter and create reports. One of the...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 8:52 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Group Policy, GPO

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