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One of the questions in the recent Scripting Games involved toggling between a wireless and LAN connection. Only one was to be up at any one time. This can be solved using WMI but becomes hugely simpler in Windows 8/2012 as we get a bunch of cmdlets for...
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A question came up on Tuesdays UK PowerShell Group session about using the Windows 2012 Active Directory module. The recording links are here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/05/30/may-2012-powershell-group-recording-and-slides.aspx...
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This post shows how to use PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 to configure scheduled tasks that apply across the whole cluster not just a single node http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/05/31/10312527.aspx Well worth a read Read More...
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The recording, slides and demo scripts from last nights session - Powershell in Windows Server 8 part 2 - is available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212966 The full...
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Quick reminder that the UK PowerShell group session on PowerShell in Windows 2012 is on Tuesday 29 May. Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/05/08/uk-powershell-group-may-2012.aspx Read More...
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The slides, demo script and recording are available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212957 Thank you again to everyone who attended the Live Meeting this evening Read More...
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This months meeting is the first of two looking at the new PowerShell functionality in Windows Server 8. Yes, there is so much it will take two sessions! When: Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 7:30 PM (BST) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This is the first of...
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The sessions for the next few months are: 27 March – PowerShell v3 CIM cmdlets and “cmlets over objects” April – Managing Windows Server 8 with PowerShell May – Managing Windows Server 8 with PowerShell No thats not a mistake – there is so much new PowerShell...
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Windows Server 8 & Windows 8 bring a host of new functionality to us. I wanted to try out some of it so created a new VM and installed the OS – went for full GUI for now Opened PowerShell and ran Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned Enable-PSRemoting...
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Would you like to be able to access a PowerShell console in a web browser to manage your remote machines? You would – then PowerShell web access in Windows Server 8 is just for you Introductory details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive...
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I downloaded the Windows Server 8 beta overnight and spun up a virtual machine. We get PowerShell v3 beta plus and whole host of modules ADDeploymentWF AppLocker Appx BestPractices BitsTransfer BranchCache CimCmdlets DirectAccessClientComponents Dism...
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If you haven’t already heard there are new toys available Windows 8 beta is available from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/download Windows Server 8 beta is available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default...
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We are use to using Get-WmiObject to retrieve information from WMI. if you have been following this blog for any length of time you will have see lots of examples of that particular cmdlet. The CIM equivalent is Get-CIMInstance. It might appear that Get...
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Do you know the difference between WMI and CIM? CIM is the Common Information Model - http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim “CIM provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services, and allows for vendor...
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A must read if you are interested in any of these http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/10/14/windows-server-8-standards-based-storage-management.aspx WMI is getting everywhere these days – better learn it quick Read More...