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Scripting Games - Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Volume

I have heard some discussions recently regarding whether Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Volume should be used in the answer to event 3 in the Scripting Games. The problem requires you pull the drive letter, drive size and freespace for local disks on the...

Published Mon, May 05 2013 4:49 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Powershell, Scripting Games

Scripting Games–filtering on remote server

In event 3 you have to get information on hard disk capacity. I’ve only looked at the first couple of dozen scripts but seen this too many times Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | where DriveType -eq 3 or if you prefer the version 2 way Get...

Published Tue, May 05 2013 2:21 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Powershell, Scripting Games

Scripting Games-don’t repeat the work

There are some good features to this script but what really hurts is the two trips to the server for the Win32_Computersystem class Foreach ($IP in (Get-Content "C:\IPList.txt")) { $Name = (Get-WMIObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName $ip...

Published Tue, May 05 2013 3:57 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Powershell, Scripting Games

Scripting Games–how not to output data

I haven’t finished blogging about event 1 yet but this caught my eye. Things aren’t too bad until we hit the bunch of write-host calls $wrks = (Get-Content -path C:\IPList.txt) foreach ($wrk in $wrks) { $osver = Get-WMIObject...

Published Tue, May 05 2013 3:14 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Powershell, Scripting Games

TCP/IP Alternative Configuration: pt II Set DHCP

The next step on our journey to an alternative configuration is setting the NIC to use DHCP I will keep cheating for now and specify the NIC – on my machine I now it is the NIC whose Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration has an Index of 7 $index = 7 Get-WmiObject...

Published Wed, May 05 2012 4:14 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Networking, Powershell

PowerShell in Practice offer today only

Manning have PowerShell in Practice on a half price offer today. Go to www.manning.com and use code dotd0330cc when ordering Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2012 9:47 AM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Books, PowerShell and Active Directory, Powershell, PowerShell and Exchange 2007, PowerShell and SQL Server, PowerShell and IIS

Testing replication

We’ve seen a few things we can do with the WMI provider for Active Directory. One of the most useful is testing replication function test-replication { [ CmdletBinding ( ) ] param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2012 2:04 PM by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell and WMI, Active Directory, Powershell

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Scripting Games - Win32_LogicalDisk or Win32_Volume

Scripting Games–filtering on remote server

Scripting Games-don’t repeat the work

Scripting Games–how not to output data

TCP/IP Alternative Configuration: pt II Set DHCP

PowerShell in Practice offer today only

Testing replication