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Set registry key owner

In chapter 7 of PowerShell and WMI I stated that I would post a .NET version of a script to set ownership of a registry key. The WMI method needs Vista or above so we need the .NET version for pre-Vista operating systems. function set-regkeyowner { [...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 2:47 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2. .NET, Registry

Using calculated fields in subsequent processing

A calculated field can be created in Select-Object or Format-Table. When you use Format-Table processing effectively stops, the pipeline terminates and you are dumping the results to screen. The objects produced by Format-Table are not meant for further...

Published Sat, Nov 19 2011 5:45 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell Basics

Hosts file – add an IPv6 address

This builds on adding an IPv4 address - http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/10/24/hosts-file-add-a-record.aspx function add-IPv6hostfilecontent { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [ parameter ( Mandatory = $true ) ] [string] $IPAddress ,...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2011 1:21 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Networking

IPv6 Link local addresses and device identifier

If I run ipconfig on my system the partial results are this Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : tiscali.co.uk Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6d95:b824:6a72:a0a9...

Published Sun, Nov 06 2011 1:49 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Patch Tuesdays 2012

I’ve shown these functions before but as we head rapidly towards 2012 we need to plan next years schedules. One perennial for Windows administrators is patching – therefore we need to know patch Tuesdays. This is next years offenders 10 January...

Published Sun, Nov 13 2011 1:14 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: IT Security, Powershell

Why use the pipeline?

In this post http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/10/31/multiple-value-query-in-wql.aspx I showed how to use Get-WmiObject, WQL and Invoke-WmiMethod to stop multiple services. The code looks like this Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service...

Published Wed, Nov 02 2011 3:33 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI

Swapping virtual switches

Virtualisation is a great technique for creating demo labs. I took my laptop with a bunch of VMs of Windows 8/Server 8 to the PowerShell Deep Dive. Normally I run my “server” laptop and my development laptop on a switch or connected via a cross...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 2:14 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, Hyper-V

Working with IPv6

A comment was left on one of the articles in my recent series on working with the hosts file asking about using IPv6. I’ve not used it really as I’ve never had any reason but it seems a good idea to dig into it a bit as IPv6 is enabled by default...

Published Sat, Nov 05 2011 6:54 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2, PowerShell and WMI, Networking

Infrastructure Architecture–from the Middle Ages to Now

i often wonder about how we go about performing Infrastructure Architecture in particular and Architecture in general. We spend a lot of time and effort creating frameworks such as Zachman and TOGAF; we create large bodies of data in the form of Enterprise...

Published Tue, Nov 15 2011 2:45 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Architecture, Opinion

UK PowerShell Group November–reminder

UK PowerShell Group meeting – Jonathan Medd on “Whats new in PowerCLI 5” details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2011 1:10 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group, Virtualisation

PowerShell User Group 22 November

When: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011 9:00 PM (GMT) Where: Live Meeting *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* PowerShell MVP and PowerCLI Jonathan Medd discusses the new features and PowerCLI 5 and how to get the best from them Notes Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an...

Published Sat, Nov 05 2011 9:07 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group

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