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AD MoL Chapter 10 MEAP

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:07:19 GMT

Chapter 10 of AD Management in a Month of Lunches is now available. http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ The chapter covers Fine Grained Password Policies Read More......(read more)

Scripting Games–new Get-ChildItem parameters

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:20:39 GMT

One improvement that came with PowerShell v3 is the –File and –Directory parameters on Get-ChildItem If I run this Get-ChildItem -Path c:\mydata I will get a mixture of directories and files Mode ...(read more)

WMI vs CIM speed tests–the final round

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:31:07 GMT

As a final test I want to see what happened when I ran multiple commands against the remote machine. PS> 1..100 | foreach { Measure-Command -Expression{1..100 | foreach { Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName W12SUS; Get-WmiObject...(read more)

CIM vs WMI cmdlets-remote execution speed

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:08:14 GMT

Following on from my previous post we’ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine. First off was the WMI cmdlet – using DCOM to access...(read more)

Creating a new disk

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:43:05 GMT

I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine - that’s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk. A module new to Windows 2012 & Windows...(read more)

Windows Server Backup

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:50:15 GMT

Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable...(read more)

Running workflows

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:11:21 GMT

I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows. Consider the world’s simplest workflow workflow test-w1 {"hello world"} If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8 PowerShell machine – it works If I run...(read more)

AD Management in a Month of Lunches

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:39:41 GMT

The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 – creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ Read More......(read more)

Putting the date in a file name

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:18:33 GMT

I often need to create file names that include the date & time the file was created in the name. I’ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest. I want the date in this format: year-month-day-hour-minute-second. ...(read more)

Shutting down a remote computer

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:16:35 GMT

PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I’ll have several machines running but won’t necessarily have logged onto them. Using Stop-Computer means that...(read more)

CIM cmdlets

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:03:47 GMT

The CIM cmdlets are found in the CIMcmdlets module. Get-Command -Module CimCmdlets produces this list of names. I’ve added some information on the tasks they perform Get-CimAssociatedInstance is for working with WMI associated classes...(read more)

WMI vs CIM

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:03:50 GMT

An email debate yesterday regarding the use of the CIM cmdlets (new in PowerShell 3) vs the WMI cmdlets made me realise that other people are probably wondering the same thing, The question is really part of a the semi-philosophical debate about when...(read more)

PowerShell 3 SDK samples

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:49:44 GMT

A sample pack for the SDK is now available - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx Read More......(read more)

Network Adapters–Disable/Enable

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:08:21 GMT

Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name InterfaceDescription ...(read more)

Network adapters

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:23:47 GMT

The WMI classes Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration have seen a lot of use over the years. They can be a bit fiddly to use which is why the NetAdapter module in Windows 8/2012 is a so welcome. Lets start by looking at basic information...(read more)