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The relentless community development on all things PowerShell continues unabated. Today, I found a module for use with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This module contains the following functions: Get-SCCMCommands Connect-SCCMServer Get-SCCMObject...
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PowerShell is an increasingly important tool for the IT Admin. In it’s early version, it didn’t do much, but with products like Exchange, SharePoint 2010, and System Centre being so PowerShell focused, it’s a tool every IT Admin needs to learn and learn...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script displays the virtual Memory assigned to Hyper-V VMs on a given host. .DESCRIPTION This script uses The Hyper-V module from Codeplex to first get all the VMs on...
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PowerShell cmdlets use a verb-noun naming pattern. To the extent possible, you should follow the same pattern when writing your own functions and scripts. This verb-noun naming is partly enforced by PowerShell, at least as far as the verbs to. MS has...
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An interesting question, to say the least. This blog carries a lot of PowerShell content – and much of that content is aimed at IT Pro types. I think it’s clear that IT Pro nerds working in the Microsoft need to know PowerShell. PowerShell is central...
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Merry Christmas. To celebrate the holiday, here’s a quick Christmas tree written in WPK (the WPF PowerShell Kit). You can get WPK as part of the PowerShellPack ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack ). Here’s a screenshot: and Here’s the script: Import-Module WPK New-Polygon -Points...
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This blog is mainly about PowerShell scripts. But from now on all scripts will be V2.0 and beyond. I have tested most of the scripts in the script library against V2 and will announce when that work is completed. In the meantime – if you are not running PowerShell V2 because you are on older OSs, help...
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If you are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, then you will have PowerShell installed by default. On Windows 7, both the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE are installed by default. On Server 2008 R2, PowerShell console is installed by default...
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Well, maybe not everything, but the document entitled PowerShell Remoting Protocol Specification contains 179 pages of details of what Powershell Remoting does! It’s not for the faint of heart, to say the least as it very detailed – just the sort of hard...
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Just before the release of Windows 7, the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack was released. Today, it hit 10,000 downloads. It contains 10 useful modules that help you do more with Windows PowerShell. It has modules that can help every IT admin ( like the TaskScheduler module), and modules...
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The Systems Development Kit, or SDK, is a download that the stuff you need to be able to develop applications around a particular technical area. The Windows SDK is huge and there are SDKs for almost every technology MS produces. Other vendors produce...
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On October 15th I released a large collection of scripts called the PowerShellPack . The PowerShellPack has tons of PowerShell V2 scripts that can be used to do all sorts of fun and practical things. Today, we’ll show how to use a module in the PowerShell Pack to schedule sending a daily...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script restarts the DNS Service on a Remote System .DESCRIPTION This script uses WMI to reach out and restart the DNS DNS service on a remote machine. in my home environment, ...
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I've stumbled upon blog post that talks about accessing remote registry, collecting "Automatic Update" configuration info and creating custom object to hold that data for further processing/formatting. The author has used Add-Member cmdlet to add quite a bunch of NoteProperties to the custom...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script creates then copies a file using System.IO.Fileinfo.CopyTo() .DESCRIPTION This script first creates a temporary file, then copies it to another file then deletes...