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Windows Updates: 3 Installing Updates

Now we have discovered the updates we have available we can think about installing them. 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 function ...

Published Sat, Jun 11 2011 4:45 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, COM, IT Security

Windows Updates: 2 Installed updates

Testing for installed updates is a variation on what we saw last time. This will show updates that Windows updates has installed – Get-Hotfix will show all updates that have been installed. 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 function get-installedupdate...

Published Sat, Jun 11 2011 4:37 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, COM

Windows Updates: 1 Discovering Updates

I want to spend a few posts looking at Windows updates. There is a COM object model that enables us to work with the updates system. Any update processing starts with discovering the updates that are available 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 function...

Published Fri, Jun 10 2011 1:59 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, COM

Date Formats–custom formats

I’ve added examples of practically all of the custom elements that can be used in a date format "d ShortDatePattern ...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:13 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Host information

There is a lot of information available about the PowerShell host. We can use the $host automatic variable or we can use Get-Host. In either case we get the same result. PS> Get-Host Name ...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 1:41 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Date formats

Can you remember all of the .NET date formats and what they mean. I can’t so I wrote this reminder "d ShortDatePattern ...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 4:41 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

PowerShell and WMI forum

I will be moderating a new forum for PowerShell on powershell.com http://powershell.com/cs/forums/217.aspx The forum is slanted towards PowerShell and WMI but happy to take questions on any aspect of PowerShell Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 2:34 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, IT Community

Path to files on start menu–Part 2

Last time we had got the file names for most of the files but anything in special folders such as the desktop wasn’t displaying properly. We can fix that 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 2:17 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, File System

Path to files on start menu

I was asked today if it was possible the path to recent files that are shown on the start menu. I thought it was easy until I started digging into it. The files on the start menu are .lnk files and are in a binary format. 001 002 003 004 005...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 2:28 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, File System, COM

Get-WmiObject property parameter

This is a fairly obvious piece of PowerShell Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume We would probably restrict the properties we displayed like this Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume | select DriveLetter, DriveType, Freespace or possibly Get-WmiObject Win32_Volume | format...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 2:56 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI

PowerShell resources: Code examples

There are a number of good locations for code examples. This list isn’t meant to be exhaustive. It covers the sites I’ve used. I’ve already mentioned www.codeplex.com To that we can add: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter – lots...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 1:15 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Advanced Function update

If you were around PowerShell back in November 2007 you might remember that the PowerShell v2 CTP was the new kid in town. One of really big things at the time was script cmdlets – that we now call Advanced Functions. Back in this post http://richardspowershellblog...

Published Sun, Jun 05 2011 12:34 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Advanced Functions

The future of Windows administration?

This article http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Seven-steps-Windows-Server-administrators-should-consider.html suggests 7 things that Windows admins should be looking at: IPv6 Investigate the cloud Review licenses Leverage virtualisation...

Published Sun, Jun 05 2011 4:36 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: General, Architecture

PowerShell Basics: Getting the job done

Warning: this post contains a lot of personal opinion. In my recent post http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/05/16/scripting-games-commentary-xiii-ping.aspx I showed that there were a number of ways of “pinging” a remote machine: Using...

Published Sun, Jun 05 2011 4:08 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Invoke-WmiMethod parameters

The Invoke-WmiMethod cmdlet was new with PowerShell 2. In PowerShell v1 we would do something like this (gwmi win32_Process -Filter "Name='Notepad.exe'").Terminate() With the cmdlet we can do this gwmi win32_Process -Filter "Name...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 1:53 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI

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