The Lonely Administrator

Training Down Under

I will be doing a private #PowerShell training class in Canberra, Australia in March. Since it is a long trek I’d love to add a second week of work, either training or speaking. I had a second training gig lined … Continue reading →...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 8:45 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training

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

PowerShell 3.0 Easy Rider

Today I gave an Live Meeting presentation for the PowerShell Virtual User Group. When the recording is posted I’ll update this post. I spoke about new features in Windows PowerShell 3.0 that I think will make it easier for people … Continue...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 2:41 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Training, Help, Professional, User group, v3, Powershell 3.0

Maximizing the PowerShell Console Title Bar

A few days ago Boe Prox posted some very nifty PowerShell modules for using the title bar as a ticker for RSS feeds like the weather. I thought this was an awesome idea and an easy way to take advantage … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 31 2012 9:54 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, console, module, Register-ObjectEvent, eventsubscriber

Friday Fun Get Content Words

Recently I was tracking down a bug in script for a client. The problem turned out to be a simple typo. I could have easily avoided that by using Set-StrictMode, which I do now, but that’s not what this is … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 27 2012 9:30 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, Regular Expressions, Select-Object, Get-Content, regex

PowerShell in a Nutshell

This past weekend I did an online presentation for a friend of mine who teaches for ITT in Omaha, Nebraska. He wanted me to do a brief talk about what PowerShell is and show how to use it, especially for … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 6:56 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, Training, PowerShell v2.0, Windows Server, video

Friday Fun: A PowerShell Alarm Clock

Today’s Friday Fun is a continuation of my exploration of ways to use Start-Job. A few weeks ago I wrote about using Start-Job to create “scheduled” tasks. I realized I could take this further and turn this into a sort … Continue...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 8:28 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Friday Fun, FridayFun, Jobs, Start-Job

Using Types with Imported CSV Data in PowerShell

The Import-CSV cmdlet in PowerShell is incredibly useful. You can take any CSV file and pump objects to the pipeline. The cmdlet uses the CSV header as properties for the custom object. PS S:\> import-csv .\testdata.csv Date : 1/18/2012...

Published Thu, Jan 19 2012 8:21 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Where-Object, objects, Import-CSV, Sort

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 13 2012 7:50 AM by The Lonely Administrator

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

Convert Text to Object Updated

I’ve had a few comments and emails lately about my post and script on converting text to objects. I decided the function needed a little more lovin’ so today I have an updated version, complete with comment based help. Function … Continue...

Published Thu, Jan 12 2012 8:43 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, CommandLine, Split, Convert

The PowerShell Morning Report

I love how easy it is to manage computers with Windows PowerShell. It is a great reporting tool, but often I find people getting locked into one approach. I’m a big believer in flexibility and re-use and using objects in … Continue reading...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2012 12:18 PM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, WMI, PowerShell, ConvertTo-HTML, Windows 7, Windows Server, Get-WMIObject, HTML

Friday Fun What’s My Variable

I use scriptblocks quite a bit in my PowerShell work, often saved as variables. These are handy for commands you want to run again, but don’t necessarily need to turn into permanent functions. $freec={(get-wmiobject win32_logicaldisk -filter...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 10:32 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell, Friday Fun, FridayFun, Variable, objects, Type, Get-variable

Using Start-Job as a Scheduled Task

Here’s a technique you might want to use for ad hoc troubleshooting or reporting. Even though it is possible to set up scheduled tasks to run PowerShell commands or scripts, it is cumbersome and time consuming. PowerShell v3 offers a … Continue...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 9:54 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Invoke-Command, Start-Job, Tasks, remoting

Format Leading Zeros in PowerShell

I’ve been working on a question in the forums at ScriptingAnswers.com and the need arose to create a folder name with a 4 digit number. But the number needed to have enough leading zeros so that the number was always … Continue reading →...

Published Tue, Jan 03 2012 10:38 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, Join-Path, Format

Where’s Jeff?

I hope that 2011 was a good a year for you as it was for me. In 2012 I hope to keep up the pace. Here’s a brief look at where you can find me this year and a few … Continue reading → Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 02 2012 9:50 AM by The Lonely Administrator

Filed under: PowerShell

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