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Logging options

With 24 logging options to choose from its difficult to keep track of them. We already have the data in a ash table so lets just display it function get-logsettingoptions { PROCESS { 1 .. $logtype . Count | foreach { $logtype [ "$_" ] } } #process...

Published Sat, Sep 03 2011 2:29 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory

select-object quirk

I was working with the new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3 CTP and mistyped a command (as I thought) Get-Cimclass win32_operatingsystem | select -ExpandProperty methods | select -f 1 select -ExpandProperty Qualifiers My surprise was because of the...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2011 3:23 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell V3

Timer

In this post I showed how to set a count down timer http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/02/a-count-down-timer.aspx but what if you want to go the other way i.e. see how long something takes The count down function can be modified Import...

Published Mon, Sep 05 2011 3:11 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Timer

Find the Time Server

No its not the latest Internet game. Active Directory synchronises the computer clock times. To know what server is being used function get-timeserver { [ CmdletBinding ( SupportsShouldProcess = $true ) ] param ( [ parameter ( Position = 0 , Mandatory...

Published Mon, Sep 05 2011 1:32 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory

Windows Server remote server admin tools

I added the RSAT tools using the server manager module PS> Get-Command -Module servermanager CommandType Name ----------- ---- Alias Add-WindowsFeature...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2011 4:09 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V3, Windows Server 8

UK PowerShell Group – 20 September

Quick reminder that Aleksandar Nikolic is presenting on PowerShell remoting - details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/09/08/powershell-user-group-20-september-2011.aspx Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 1:21 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group, Remoting

Active Directory Logging

I had a problem come up recently where I needed to check the level of logging applied to the AD database. This is configurable via registry settings. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314980 for details. Checking one machine is OK by RDP but when you...

Published Sat, Sep 03 2011 6:17 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory

PowerShell remoting and the customisation of remoting end points–recording

The recording of Aleksandar’s session for the UK user group http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/09/08/powershell-user-group-20-september-2011.aspx entitled PowerShell remoting and the customisation of remoting end points Is available...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 1:27 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group

Setting AD logging

Now that we know what the options are we can look at switching them on. function set-logsetting { [ CmdletBinding ( SupportsShouldProcess = $true ) ] param ( [ parameter ( Position = 0 , Mandatory = $true , ValueFromPipeline = $true , ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName...

Published Sun, Sep 04 2011 4:31 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory

Book offers

Manning has a good offer on its books this weekend Saturday, September 3 : Save 50% on all eBooks. Sunday, September 4 : Save 50% on all print books. Monday, September 5 : Save 50% on your entire purchase. see www.manning.com for details Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 03 2011 7:10 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Books

Clearing AD logging

Last time we looked at turning on logging – for one or more criteria. The normal state of diagnostic logging is None i.e. the options are set to zero. If we have only a few options set we can use set-logsetting to revert to no logging. Alternatively we...

Published Sun, Sep 04 2011 1:15 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory

PowerShell Deep Dive abstracts

With the Deep Dive just over 6 weeks away the programme is shaping up.Abstracts of some of the sessions can be viewed http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/09/01/8-abstracts-for-the-powershell-deep-dive-in-frankfurt.aspx I will also be...

Published Thu, Sep 01 2011 12:26 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Deep Dive

Its a date

If you’ve used PowerShell for any length of time you have come across the Get-Date cmdlet PS> Get-Date 13 September 2011 20:47:50 The cmdlet returns a .NET System.DateTime object. The object has some methods we can use PS> Get...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 2:57 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell Basics

UK User Group–Alexsandar

Quick reminder about the UK User group Live Meeting on remoting and end points presented by PowerShell MVP Alexsandar Nikolic. Details and link to join from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/09/08/powershell-user-group-20-september...

Published Sat, Sep 17 2011 10:44 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell User Group, Remoting

PowerShell 3 default formats

In PowerShell v2 if you had 5 or fewer properties to display the formatting would default to a table. More than that and you got a list. Rules appear to have changed in v3 in that I’m getting default formatting producing tables with 6 items – Win32_ComputerSystem...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2011 3:56 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V3

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Logging options

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Timer

Find the Time Server

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UK PowerShell Group – 20 September

Active Directory Logging

PowerShell remoting and the customisation of remoting end points–recording

Setting AD logging

Book offers

Clearing AD logging

PowerShell Deep Dive abstracts

Its a date

UK User Group–Alexsandar

PowerShell 3 default formats