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< # .SYNOPSIS This script enables then disables the SMTP port on a local system .DESCRIPTION This script first creates a FW object, then creates a port. The script then addes that port to the firewall rules...
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The Scripting Guys have just created a new RSS feed of POwerSHell scripts from teh Script Centre. You can get this feed from: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/site/feeds/searchRss?f[0].Type=ScriptLanguage&f[0].Value=Powershell&f...
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The Microsoft PowerShell doc team is looking for volunteers for the third documentation review cycle. This cycle is focusing on the needs of new and intermediate PowerShell users. And if you speak a language other than American or English, then they’re...
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Discovery is process by which a user will learn to use any product. The more discoverable any product is, the easier it is for new users to get started. A disoverable product enables any user both to leverage what they already know and to find more. PowerShell...
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Technorati Tags: PowerShell , PowerShell Script , System.Globalization.CultureInfo , System.Threading.Thread , culture <# .SYNOPSIS This script creates a function to run culture sensitive operations in some other culture. .DESCRIPTION ...
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In a recent blog post, I mentioned the PowerShell Master Class I am running in Stockholm on March 9-11 2010 (see Http://Www.PowerShellMasterClass.Com for more details). I’m pleased to say the class is nearly full! I am looking forward to three great days with PowerShell! Technorati Tags: PowerShell ...
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For those in or around Norway next month (well Wednesday March 17th to be precise), NITKon, a Norwegian education conference for IT Pros in Norway, is holding Deep Dive PowerShell – a full day Of PowerShell content . I think this is the first conference...
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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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I am slowly pulling together my upcoming PowerShell Master Class. One of the modules looks at WMI objects and I’ve been searching for as many cool tools etc as I can find. Thanks to a couple of tweets (Shay and Doug!), I found a pretty cool free tool...
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Recently, when I was training a group of enterprise admins, a question came up: Why is PowerShell remoting not working on Windows XP? Well, it does! As it turned out, they had downloaded the "wrong" PowerShell version. How come? When you search for PowerShell V2 downloads, you will find tons...
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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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Now this is pretty cool - a power toy to handle elevation of PowerShell scripts. The idea is simple: you run PowerShell as normal, then use this powertoy to run a script (or cmdlet) as elevated. Yeah! Still not quote SUDO but getting better. You can get...
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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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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...