Ravikanth's Blog : PowerShell Scripting

PowerShell 3.0: Save-Help woes and solution

From Ravikanth's Blog — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:22:05 GMT

PowerShell 3.0 introduced updateable help feature because of which there is no in-box help. We need to use Update-Help and Save-Help cmdlets to update the help content from Microsoft download sites. Now, this is a great feature to help people get up-to...(read more)

Accessing Windows Imaging Application Platform Interface (WIMGAPI) in PowerShell

From Ravikanth's Blog — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:56:20 GMT

If you have used the Deployment Imaging Servicing Management (DISM) cmdlets in Windows 8 (Server or Client), you would have quickly realized that the functionality is limited only to certain basic tasks around image servicing and tasks such as capturing...(read more)

Attaching scripts or tasks to Windows event log entries using PowerShell and WMI

From Ravikanth's Blog — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:27:57 GMT

During a few load test iterations on a SharePoint farm, I started seeing some SQL exceptions in the application log of SharePoint servers. If you are familiar with SharePoint platform, you may have seen these events such as event ID 3355. This event complains...(read more)

Passing variables or arguments to an event action in PowerShell

From Ravikanth's Blog — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:17:14 GMT

I was helping @LaerteSQLDBA to add PowerShell eventing support in his most recent script for performing SQL restores using SMO. He has a complex script where events are used inside a background job. And, in another event subscription outside the job,...(read more)

PowerShell to watch TechEd 2011 sessions

From Ravikanth's Blog — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:48:21 GMT

Now that TechED North America is done, all the sessions are now available for offline viewing at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/RSS/. There were some great PowerShell sessions by Windows PowerShell team and MVPs. So, I quickly...(read more)