January 2009 - Thomas Lee's PowerShell Scripts - Powershell.com

Count-GDShows.ps1

<# .SYNOPSIS Counts the Grateful Dead shows in my archives .DESCRIPTION This script looks at my GD archive, and uses folder names to determine show type (aud, sbd, etc), and checks to see what shows have checked MD5s .NOTES File Name : count-gdshows...

Published Sat, Jan 31 2009 10:50 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Get-TimeZoneInfo.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Gets and displays time zone information via WMI .DESCRIPTION This script uses the Win32_TimeZone class to obtain, then display time zone information for a computer. This script is a MSDN sample recoded in PowerShell .NOTES File Name : Get-TimeZoneInfo...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 6:18 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Get-WMILocalTime.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Gets time from WMI and displays it .DESCRIPTION This script gets Win32_LocalTime and then displays the details. .NOTES File Name : Get-WMILocalTime.ps1 Author : Thomas Lee - tfl @psp .co.uk Requires ...

Published Mon, Jan 26 2009 3:30 PM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, wmi, Script, Code, Win32_LocalTime

Show-TryCatchFinally2.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS MSDN Sample of Try/Catch/Finally in PowerShell .DESCRIPTION This script opens a file gets 1st 10 characters. The idea is to show more detail on try/catch/finally with PowerShell .NOTES File Name : show-trycatchfinally2.ps1 Author ...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2009 9:54 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Get-ErrorDetails.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Shows detals of an $Error record for an exception .DESCRIPTION Creates an exception then shows how to find out details. .NOTES File Name : Get-ErrorDetails.ps1 Author : Thomas Lee - tfl @psp .co.uk ...

Published Fri, Jan 23 2009 9:21 AM by PowerShell Scripts

UK PowerShell User Group Meeting

Last night, I attended a great PowerShell user group meeting at MS’s Thames Valley Park offices (in the UK). We had an excellent Live Meeting session with Jeffrey Snover as well as a short presentation on Error handling (plus the obligatory pizza sadly sans beer). The meeting was recorded by James O’Neil (MS Tech Evangelist) and hopefully it’ll get recorded soon. The error handling talk was good –...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 9:40 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell, Get-PSUKUG, PowerShell User Group, Powershell UK User Group

Throw-Exception.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Shows throwing an exception in a function , caught in caller. .DESCRIPTION This is a re-written MSDN Sample .NOTES File Name : throw-exception.ps1 Author : Thomas Lee - tfl @psp .co.uk Requires ...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 8:33 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, PowerShell script, Throw

Get-TryCatchFinally.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Shows Try/Catch/Finally using Powershell .DESCRIPTION This is an MSDN Sample, re-written in PowerShell .NOTES File Name : get-trycatchfinally.ps1 Author : Thomas Lee - tfl @psp .co.uk Requires : PowerShell...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2009 7:51 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, PowerShell script, try, Script, finally, catch

100 Scripts So Far

I’ve been posting PowerShell scripts for just over 6 months. Traffic to this blog has been growing slowly – and for a niche blog rather nicely. Yesterday, I hit 100 scripts in the archive. You can download these scripts from here . Enjoy! Technorati Tags: PowerShell Scripts Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2009 5:45 PM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell

Get-LeapYear.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Demonstrates use of System.Datetime to determine leap year .DESCRIPTION This script creates four date objects and checks to see if the date is a leap year. The last object is today's date. .NOTES File Name : Get-LeapYear.ps1 ...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2009 5:37 PM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, Code, System.DateTime, IsLeapYear

Get-CountOfJerryShows.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Counts Jerry Garcia live shows on q: drive .DESCRIPTION I store Jerry Garcia live shows on my Q: drive. This script counts the shows by year, and gives a total. .NOTES File Name : get-countofjerryshows.ps1 Author ...

Published Sun, Jan 18 2009 8:59 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, Script, shows, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead

Send-BCCMail.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Send mail to BCC using PowerShell .DESCRIPTION This script is a re-developed MSDN Sample using PowerShell. It creates an email message then sends it with a BCC. .NOTES File Name : Send-BCCMail.ps1 Author : Thomas...

Published Sun, Jan 18 2009 5:09 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, scripts, mail, smtp, system.net.mail

Date and Time in PowerShell

In yesterday’s PowerShell script of the day entry,posted over on my PowerShell scripts blog , I re-implemented an MSDN sample (originally written in VBScript) that calculates up time. The script first used a WMI class (Win32_OperatingSystem) to determine when a computer started. Then the script gets the current time, and works out and displays the difference (i.e. the currentnt uptime). The .NET framework...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2009 7:34 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, scripts, wmi, System.DateTime, System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter, PoweShell, System.Management.DateTimeConverter.

Get-UpTime.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Demonstrates uptime using WMI .DESCRIPTION This script used Win32_ComputerSystem to determine how long your system has been running. This is a rewrite/improvement of sample 3 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394591(VS.85).aspx. .NOTES ...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 7:07 AM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, wmi, win32_computersystem, system.management.wmidatestringtodate, System.Management.WMIStringToDate

Get-Screensaver.ps1

< # .SYNOPSIS Determine if a computer screen saver requires a password. .DESCRIPTION This script is a re-write of script 2 on the MSDN site (see below for link). This script also displays the user name for each desktop and the screen saver executable. .NOTES ...

Published Sun, Jan 11 2009 3:27 PM by PowerShell Scripts

Filed under: PowerShell Scripts, PowerShell, scripts, wmi, MSDN library, Windows PowerShell, Win32_Desktop

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