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Earlier this week on Google Plus, Hal Rottenberg posted a PowerShell idea he had. His goal was to identify a group of objects that would be statistically significant. For example, given a collection of files, group the files by size … Continue reading...
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In one of my recent articles for SMB IT, I included a PowerShell module. In the article I referenced that I included support for -Whatif in one of the functions. I was asked on Twitter to explain what I meant … Continue reading → Read More...
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The comment about how awkward it is in PowerShell to filter out folders with Get-ChidlItem, or its alias dir, came up the other day on Twitter. I’ll be the first to admit that running a DIR command and wanting to … Continue reading →...
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Today I have another tool in my new battle regarding turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. The bottom line is we want to have objects written to the pipeline. At the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt there was a … Continue reading →...
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Last week I did a presentation at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt about turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. A video recording should be posted later. But in the meantime, here is a copy of my slide deck, … Continue reading →...
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Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell function to find WMI classes with specific qualifiers. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. In Thursday’s article , I talked about using the Set-WmiInstance cmdlet to work with WMI classes. One of the parameters...
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell parameter attributes to avoid input errors in a function. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week is great. The Scripting Wife and I are enjoying meeting Windows PowerShell luminaries. I am working with a group...
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Here’s another concept I know I’ve written about in the past but that needed an update. A common technique I use when exploring and discovering objects is to pipe the object to Select-Object specifying all properties, get-service spooler |...
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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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Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson discusses naming and designing advanced Windows PowerShell functions in relation to his Local User Management Module. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The cool thing about today is that it is Canada Day...
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Summary : Learn how to create a true advanced function that interacts with the Windows PowerShell pipeline. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Sean Kearney, Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, has been burning up the keyboard lately with ideas for...
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PowerShell and WMI just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, beer and pretzels, or salt and pepper. However, discovering things about WMI isn’t always so easy. There are plenty of tools and scripts that will help you … Continue...
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In my line of work I simply can’t afford not to use virtualization, and I use just about all the major tools from time to time. But most of the time I rely on the free VirtualBox program from Oracle. … Continue reading → Read More.....
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Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches you how to use description attributes to enable a quick retrieval of Windows PowerShell functions. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well, the 2011 Scripting Games are nearly...