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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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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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I got a fun call last night – PluralSight has a regular webcast but this week’s presenter has had personal issues – and would I like to do the webcast? Well SURE! When don’t I like the chance to talk about PowerShell!?!? As it turns out, this is...
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<# .SYNOPSIS A function to create a credential object from script. .DESCRIPTION Enables you to create a credential objects from stored details. .NOTES File Name : New-Credential.ps1 Author ...
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In my PowerShell training, I spend time examining modules and how you can use them to manage code and avoid profile bloat. In the (forgive the pun) modules on modules, I do lots of demos where being able to quickly set your location to the personal or system modules folder is useful. One simple way I...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script sets an ISE Theme to similar to the old VIM editor. .DESCRIPTION This script sets the key values in $PsIse .Options to values consistent with the VIM editor, beloved by many, particularly...
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Over at Www.PowerShell.Com , there’s a new forum: PowerShell for Microsoft Lync Server . This is a forum where you can ask any and all your questions around using PowerShell and Lync Server 2010. As you may know, Lync Server 2010 follows in the foot steps...
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I’ve been doing quite a lot of PowerShell training of late for organisations big and small. The biggest organisation was Microsoft’s Hotmail team where I ran a week long class over the summer – organisations with that many servers to manage could not...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script displays all the namespaces withing a Windows system .DESCRIPTION This script uses Get-WMIObject to retreive the names of all the namespaces within a system. .NOTES ...
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<# .SYNOPSIS This script creates a scheduled task object. .DESCRIPTION This script re-implements an MSDN sample using PowerShell .NOTES File Name : New-Task.ps1 Author ...
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Lee Holme’s latest book, Windows PowerShell Cookbook (2nd Edition) has finally made it to the UK. I ordered this book as soon as O’Reilly mailed me to say it has been released. I arrived home last week and I’ve been eagerly poring over it with some enthusiasm...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script displays details of a UmAlQura Calendar in PowerShell .DESCRIPTION This script shows the various aspects of this calendar including key properties, fields and selected methods. ...
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< # .SYNOPSIS This script re-implements this MSDN Sample of multiplying a big integer. .DESCRIPTION This script first tries and fails to multiple a pair of large integers. The script...
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Just over 2 years ago, I created a new blog, The PowerShell Scripts blog over at http://pshscripts.blogspot.com . The idea was simple – a blog with single function PowerShell scripts. Scripts that demonstrated one (or at least a very small number) of...