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December 2011 - Richard Siddaway's Blog
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Formatting file listings–the other way
Following on from the previous post I was asked if the bit where we set the case on the file names and extension could be done in a select statement. Simple answer is yes Get-ChildItem | where { -not $_ . PSIsContainer } | sort Fullname | select @{ N...
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Fri, Dec 30 2011 6:03 AM
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Formatting file listings
A question was left asking about displaying a file listing with the full name in upper case and the extension in lower case. Its one line of PowerShell Get-ChildItem | where { -not $_ . PSIsContainer } | sort Fullname | Format-Table @{ N = "FullName"...
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Thu, Dec 29 2011 3:35 PM
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Selecting Property order
If you run Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem you get a few properties displayed Domain : WORKGROUP Manufacturer : Hewlett-Packard...
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Fri, Dec 23 2011 1:35 PM
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PowerShell workflows
Just as remoting was viewed as the biggest gain in PowerShell v2 it looks like PowerShell workflows will be one of the biggest features on PowerShell v3. Some examples and explanation are available from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011...
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Fri, Dec 23 2011 7:47 AM
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Recordings, Slides and Demo scripts
Here are the recordings, slides and demo scripts from last weeks two Live Meetings. Introduction to WMI https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212931 WSMAN, WMI and CIM https://skydrive.live...
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Tue, Dec 20 2011 1:55 PM
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WMI LIKEs Wildcards
You may hear or read that WMI can’t accept wildcards. WRONG WMI accepts wildcards but not the ones you might expect. Consider Get-Process p* This gets all the process that begin with the letter p To do something similar with WMI we need to use...
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Mon, Dec 12 2011 3:50 PM
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International WMI week
As far as I am concerned this is International WMI week. I am delivering a Live Meeting session to the Corpus Christi (Texas) PowerShell group on Tuesday – An Introduction to WMI & PowerShell then on Thursday I am delivering a session to the...
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Sun, Dec 11 2011 2:33 PM
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Happy Birthday PowerShell
With all the things happening in the last month – including the release of PowerShell v3 CTP 2 - one thing that seems to have been missed is that PowerShell is 5 years old! Yes – its just over 5 years since the release of PowerShell v1 was announced in...
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Sun, Dec 11 2011 3:56 AM
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WMI, WSMAN, CIM and Authentication pt II
Last time we saw that the WMI cmdlets have an Authentication parameter that uses DCOM authentication. It is possible to ignore this Authentication need if the WSMAN or CIM (PS v3 CTP 2) cmdlets are used. If you look at the WSMAN cmdlets then the following...
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Sat, Dec 10 2011 9:55 AM
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WMI, WSMAN, CIM and Authentication
Authentication parameters in WMI, WSMAN and the new CIM cmdlets can be confusing. The PowerShell WMI cmdlets have an Authentication parameter that uses DCOM authentication. Using the Authentication parameter with the WMI cmdlets was explained here http...
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Sat, Dec 10 2011 6:26 AM
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Backing up the WMI repository
The WMI repository is a collection of files. It can be easily backed up function backup-wmirepository { param ( [string] $path , [switch] $force ) if ( $force ) { if ( Test-Path $path ) { Remove-Item -Path $path -Force } } else { if ( Test-Path $path...
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Wed, Dec 07 2011 3:08 PM
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Testing the WMI repository
Occasionally the WMI database becomes corrupt. Strangely I have seen this happening more often recently because of the creation of virtual machines from templates – if the template is corrupt so will be the virtual machines. With Windows Vista and above...
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Mon, Dec 05 2011 1:41 PM
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WMI rising
Its not the name of a new film but something that is happening. WMI has always been a very powerful technology but has suffered because it has a reputation of being difficult to use and hard to understand. Some of that is true but there is a lot...
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Mon, Dec 05 2011 12:00 PM
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UK PowerShell Group–December 2011
When: Thursday, Dec 15, 2011 7:30 PM (GMT) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Discover how to use the WSMAN cmdlets to retreive WMI information and see a demo of the new WMI API's CIM cmdlets in PowerShell v3 CTP 2 Notes Richard Siddaway has invited...
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Sun, Dec 04 2011 2:18 PM
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UK PowerShell Group–November Recording
The November meeting http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx was “What’s new in PowerCLI 5?” presented by Jonathan Medd The recording of Jonathan’s presentation is available from https://skydrive...
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Sun, Dec 04 2011 2:05 PM
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