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I saw a very nice mention on Twitter today where someone had taken an idea of mine and created something practical and in production. It is always nice to hear. The inspiring article was something I worked up that showed … Continue reading →...
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A few days ago Boe Prox posted some very nifty PowerShell modules for using the title bar as a ticker for RSS feeds like the weather. I thought this was an awesome idea and an easy way to take advantage … Continue reading → Read More...
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This past weekend I did an online presentation for a friend of mine who teaches for ITT in Omaha, Nebraska. He wanted me to do a brief talk about what PowerShell is and show how to use it, especially for … Continue reading → Read More...
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I never seem to build my test virtual machines with enough disk space. Which means at some point I start dealing with space issues and resort to all sorts of hacks to buy myself a little time. One thing I … Continue reading → Read More...
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I was poking around WMI the other day in PowerShell and was intrigued by the Win32_Share class. This is a great way to find out what items are shared on a server such as printers and folders, although it’s not … Continue reading → Read...
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As easy as Get-Service is to use in PowerShell, it has one limitation for IT Pros: it can’t show you what account the service is running under. In old school terms, “What is the service account?” Fortunately you can get … Continue...
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One of my nuisance issues when using WMI with Windows PowerShell, is that when looking at all properties I have to wade though many that have no value. I’d prefer to only view properties that have a populated value. Here’s … Continue...
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Earlier this week I was helping someone out on a problem working with the local administrators group. There are a variety of ways to enumerate the members of a local group. The code he was using involved WMI. I hadn’t … Continue reading →...
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My second TechEd talk was about managing the registry with Windows PowerShell. If you were in the session you know that I stressed heavily using the PowerShell provider and cmdlets. For remote computers, leverage PowerShell’s remoting infrastructure...
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My commentary for Beginner Event 5 in the 2011 Scripting Games is now available. One item that seems to be missing on the ScriptingGuys site is my complete solution so I thought I would share it here, plus a variation. … Continue reading →...