The Lonely Administrator : objects

Pipeline Power

The Lonely Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:57:24 GMT

Last week I came across a blog post that had a decent example using PowerShell and PowerCLI to get the disk location for all virtual machines. The posted code works and does display the information you might be after. $myVMs … Continue reading →...(read more)

Using Types with Imported CSV Data in PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:21:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Friday Fun What’s My Variable

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:32:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Friday Fun – Get Ranked Object

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:25:22 GMT

Earlier this week on Google Plus, Hal Rottenberg posted a PowerShell idea he had. His goal was to identify a group of objects that would be statistically significant. For example, given a collection of files, group the files by size … Continue reading...(read more)

Friday Fun – Get Number Object

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:33:49 GMT

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Turning IPConfig DNSCache into PowerShell

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:23:17 GMT

Lately I’ve been writing about techniques to turn command line tools into PowerShell tools. Although I suppose the more accurate description is turning command line output into PowerShell pipelined output. The goal is to run a command line tool...(read more)

Ping IP Range

The Lonely Administrator — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:40:50 GMT

Last week I came across a post on using PowerShell, or more specifically a .NET Framework class, to ping a range of computers in an IP subnet. The original post by Thomas Maurer is here. I added a comment. And … Continue reading → Read More...(read more)

Convert Text to Object

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:09:31 GMT

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 →...(read more)

Friday Fun Convert Object to Hash Table

The Lonely Administrator — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:13:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Select Object Properties with Values

The Lonely Administrator — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:45:04 GMT

Here’s another concept I know I’ve written about in the past but that needed an update. A common technique I use when exploring and discovering objects is to pipe the object to Select-Object specifying all properties, get-service spooler |...(read more)