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I’m working on some courseware for Office 365, Microsoft’s online office product. I have a small business subscription ( www.reskit.net , for example is the hosted SharePoint external facing site), and you can get me at tfl@reskit.net . I love the product...
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Several years ago, The PowerShell Guy, aka MoW, wrote a fantastic graphical PowerShell script that was a WMI Explorer. With this script you could connect to a computer and namespace, browse classes and view instances. A great way for discovering things...
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Well, another Friday and what goes better with it than beer. Of course I should mix in a little PowerShell as well. I live in the Syracuse, NY area and we have a terrific local brewery, Middle Ages Brewing Company. Not only is there a tasting room, but...
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One of my favorite features in PowerShell 3.0 is the ability to run a PowerShell job as a scheduled task. I can easily setup a PowerShell background job to run a script but have it registered as a scheduled task. All you need is PowerShell 3.0. The job...
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A question went out today about what authors of the forthcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book would be at the PowerShell Summit. We’re hoping to have the book out by then so you can get you hands on it. From what I can tell these authors will be at...
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AD Management in a month of lunches is today’s deal of the day from Manning – www.manning.com The get 50% off today using code dotd0227cc. The offer is good for today only The same code can be used for 50% off PowerShell in Practice Read More...
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I am speaking at SQL Saturday #197 in Omaha, NE on Saturday, April 6th. But even better, I will be doing a full day pre-conference session on Friday. The title of my session is Prof. PowerShell: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PowerShell. For...
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After a long winter I think is time for a road trip. I will out and about over the next few months, hopefully speaking at an event near you. Many of the events are free or charge a small fee, but all I hope will be worth your time. These are the events...
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PowerShell in Depth is rapidly approaching its publication date – see www.manning.com/jones2 for details Read More...
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My latest book has been released on the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches takes the newcomer to AD through the tasks they need to perform to manage their organization’s AD. it assumes no knowledge of...
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I had an email about trying to use my Morning Report script to connect to machines that required alternate credentials. For example, you might have non-domain systems in a DMZ. Fair enough. Since most of the report script uses WMI, it wasn’t too...
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Ed Wilson, aka Microsoft’s The Scripting Guy, has written a number of PowerShell books (for MS Press). This book, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices , is one I’ve been slowly reading through. Although this book is a couple of years old, the advice...
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When: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 7:30 PM (GMT) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Advanced functions give you ability to create functions that act like cmdlets. Learn how to get the most from this powerful part of the PowerShell functionality Notes Richard...
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Last week I dropped in on a class Jeremy Moskowitz was teaching on Group Policy to talk a little PowerShell. I was demonstrating the Get-GPO cmdlet and talking about the object you get back and how you can use it to filter and create reports. One of the...
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I’ve been doing quite a bit of work lately with remoting – running scripts and script blocks on other machines. As part of my series on developing a Hyper-V VM lab, I’ve scripted the installation and configuration of a mini network. One of the patterns...