August 2011 - Richard Siddaway's Blog - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Windows firewall

I normally leave the Windows firewall enabled in my test environment. It ensures I don’t forget it when testing. My recent session for the TechEd:Australia PowerShell conference involved me disabling various firewall rules on the subject machine to set...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2011 5:23 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, COM, Firewall

UK User Group sessions

This is the provisional list of meetings for the rest of the year 20 September Aleksandar Nikolic 7.30pm BST 25 October WSMAN and WMI - this is an extended version of the talk I gave over Live Meeting to the TechEd Australia PowerShell...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2011 1:28 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group

Webcast: Get the most from PowerShell and WMI

I will be presenting the above webcast next week. Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST Thats 6pm UK time Register for the web cast at http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/11256.aspx Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 1:50 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI

Testing services

A forum question about testing services and if they weren’t running got me thinking. I created an function to solve the question function test-service { [ CmdletBinding ( SupportsShouldProcess = $true ) ] param ( [ parameter ( Position = 0 , ValueFromPipeline...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 1:41 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI

Testing computer existence in AD

Forum question wanted to take a list of computer names in a csv Using the Quest cmdlets it becomes Import-Csv computers2.csv | foreach { $comp = Get-QADComputer -Name $( $_ . Name ) if ( $comp ) { $location = $comp . DN } else { $location = "Does...

Published Mon, Aug 29 2011 2:25 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and Active Directory

Deal of the Day–PowerShell

PowerShell and WMI is Manning’s deal of the day – 50% off print or e-book. The deal also extends to PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell in Action 2E See www.manning.com for details Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 29 2011 4:04 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Books

Reminder: TechEd Australia PowerShell conference

The TechEd Australia PowerShell conference starts tomorrow at midnight UK time (9am in Australia). Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/22/teched-australia-powershell-conference.aspx I will be presenting on...

Published Sun, Aug 28 2011 2:30 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

Network Adapter vendors

The NDis WMI classes expose some information about the vendors that produce the various adapters in our systems function get-adaptervendor { param ( [string] $computer = "." ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class MSNdis_CoVendorDescription...

Published Sun, Aug 28 2011 2:27 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Msndis class

The MSNdis class from the root\wmi namespace calls the MSNdis_CoHardwareStatus and MSNdis_CoDriverVersion classes. On my Windows 7 system it tries to call something else but I get a “Get-WmiObject : Not supported” error. Neither of these classes seems...

Published Sat, Aug 27 2011 4:17 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

European PowerShell Deep Dive–presenting

I was notified last night that my submission to the Deep Dive was successful and I will be presenting. There will be a good number of PowerShell MVPs attending. This will be the PowerShell event of the year in Europe. The one in April in the USA was brilliant...

Published Fri, Aug 26 2011 1:58 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Deep Dive, Powershell

Outlook: removing calendar entries

We recently looked at dumping the Calendar entries http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/23/outlook-viewing-calendar-entries.aspx I usually leave entries to build up in the Calendar but a simple clean operation is to delete everything...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 5:16 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Office 2010, Outlook

Network Adapter details

In this post - http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/09/linking-the-network-card-to-the-registry-settings.aspx – I showed how to get the NetLuidIndex by linking the network card to the matching registry settings. There is another...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 1:42 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Testing the network speed

In the last post I showed how to use the MSNdis_LinkSpeed class. Digging into the class information I found a suggestion that the speed returned was in Kbps. The answers didn’t look right especially when they suggested my wireless network was running...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 3:24 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Network Link Speed

The root\wmi Namespace contains a class that just returns the link speed of your network card. Quick and easy to use function. function get-linkspeed { param ( [string] $computer = "." ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class MSNdis_LinkSpeed...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 3:13 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Mailbox database status

A recent forum post on mailbox database status in Exchange 2007 proved interesting. If I do this PS> Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select Name, server, storagegroup, mounted Name Server StorageGroup ---- ------ ------------ MailDatabase...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2011 3:19 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and Exchange 2007

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Windows firewall

UK User Group sessions

Webcast: Get the most from PowerShell and WMI

Testing services

Testing computer existence in AD

Deal of the Day–PowerShell

Reminder: TechEd Australia PowerShell conference

Network Adapter vendors

Msndis class

European PowerShell Deep Dive–presenting

Outlook: removing calendar entries

Network Adapter details

Testing the network speed

Network Link Speed

Mailbox database status