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In the last post I showed that there was an issue with the way the SetDNSServerSearchOrder of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class worked This would work $nic = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter "Index=7"...
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We have seen how to set the NIC to use DHCP to get its address. This post shows how to set the alternative configuration on the NIC. If you just want APIPA then do nothing – other wise use this script $HKLM = 2147483650 #HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE...
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A new PowerShell version is coming soon! The language itself will stay pretty much the same, but there are tons of cool new features that enhance performance and ease of use . A complete list of all of the new features is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28998 ...
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The weekend of April 21/22, 18 hearty IT Pros and I spend two days looking into PowerShell. A jump start look at all the key aspects of Windows PowerShell. The event focused on the core aspects of PowerShell – Cmdlets, the Pipeline, Objects, and Remoting...
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As many of you know, I’ve long been an advocate of all IT Pros (and devs!) learning more about PowerShell. There are a lot of ways to do this, and one great way is to attend a short (read 2 day at the weekend), jump start events. And as it happens, there...
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My latest book – PowerShell and WMI – has gone to the printers. Expect it soon at a book shop near you. www.manning.com/powershellandwmi for more details Read More...
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The agenda for the PowerShell Deep Dive next month has just been published on the PowerShell team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/03/26/schedule-for-the-upcoming-powershell-deep-dive-and-a-few-videos-from-frankfurt.aspx If you are...
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Back in January last year I posted about my preferred set of PowerShell books. http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/01/09/powershell-books.aspx Its time to update that list I’ll start by removing the first edition of books where the second...
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BITS is the Background Intelligent Transfer Service. I’ve started a series of posts on using the PowerShell BITS cmdlets on my IT Knowledge Exchange blog 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell/bits/ 2 http://itknowledgeexchange...
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One of the aspects of the Monad Manifesto was its advocating building GUIs on top of PowerShell. For some devs and fewer IT Pros, the mechanism is pretty clear and straightforward. But for a lot, it’s a bit of a black art. In this article, I’ll look at...
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One of the questions on tonight’s Live Meeting concerned the compatibility between remoting on PowerShell v2 and PowerShell v3 CTP 2 The difference is that v3 uses a WSMAN 3.0 stack but v2 uses 2.0 I used two machines: Windows 2008 R2 SP 1 with PowerShell...
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Do you know which users are logged on to your systems? Want to find out? function get-logedonuser { param ( [string] $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogonSession -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $data = $_ $id = Read...
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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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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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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...