The PowerShell Guy

Meet up at MMS 2011 (and talk PowerShell)

2011-03-23T17:56:00Z

I you are at MMS 2011 and want to have a RL chat. Today we will hold a PowerShell Clinic at our Booth MMS 2011: PowerShell Script Clinic Q&A with Marc van Orsouw (aka “The PowerShell Guy”) Today 3-5PM And I will be at : 5:30 PM - Birds-Of-A-Feather Sessions (BOF) BOF: Advanced Automation using Windows PowerShell 2.0 Jasmine A Hope to meet you there : Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Script club Zürich

2011-01-27T15:39:49Z

As last year, I will be holding PowerShell script clubs in Switzerland, in cooperation with the Swiss IT User group ( http://swissitpro.com/ ) and Digicomp (http://www.digicomp.ch/ ) Planning is to hold one about every 2 Months, with next week the kickoff with a PowerShell Script club in Zürich : PowerShell Script Club (Zurich) Language: Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Get-Easter function

2010-11-14T12:37:24Z

Just to long to twitter : Function Get-Easter ($y){$a=(19*($y%19)+15)%30;$b=(2*($y%4)+4*($y%7)-$a+34)%7;$d=(($a+$b+114)%31)+1;$m=[math]::Floor(($a+$b+114)/31);([datetime]"$m/$d/$y").adddays(13)} can be used like this : PS > Get-Easter 2011 Sonntag, 24. April 2011 00:00:00 Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More......(read more)

Discovering PowerTab V2 series Part 1 : Installation or upgrade from V1

2010-08-06T18:39:14Z

Last post there was a question on how to upgrade From the previous version of PowerTab Jason already answered in the comments. As I also had this planned as start of this series I explain a bit more, while I’m installing the new current version PowerTab 0.99.5 . To startup the PowerTab V1 installation added this block to the Profile ( Tip use ii $profile to open your profile) : ################ Start Read More......(read more)

PowerTab for PowerShell version 2.0 beta released on CodePlex

2010-08-02T18:45:00Z

After a long silence, a grand new version of PowerTab is there ! With thanks to Jason Archer who took up the job and converted PowerTab to a PowerShell V2 Module. Next to that, he fixed the issues with PowerTab on V2.0 and made some fabulous additions to PowerTab too ! You can find PowerTab on Codeplex now : http://powertab.codeplex.com/ I’m using Jason’s version for the last weeks and do not want Read More......(read more)

MSDN content from PowerShell using WDSL

2010-07-26T21:55:00Z

When I saw this post : MSDN content is also available as a Web service Of course I had to try this in PowerShell The following code I came up with while testing will get the title of the following post http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973757(VS.85).aspx : $msdn = New-WebServiceProxy http://services.msdn.microsoft.com/ContentServices/ContentService.asmx?wsdl $cr = New-Object Microsoft.PowerShell Read More......(read more)

Replace security on existing share with WMI in PowerShell (update post)

2010-06-02T18:24:00Z

This is an update of the script from my old Blog /\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled: Replace Security on existing share using MSH to PowerShell V2, I came at this post while recourcing a question about translating a SID, that I tested a lot with on my old blog see also the other posts about this here where you can find more examples. As I was at it I rewrote the existing script to work in PowerShell V2 Changes Read More......(read more)

Back again !, Kudos to OrcsWeb and 4th PowerShell Scriptclub in Zurich

2010-05-28T18:19:00Z

Hi readers, First of all, sorry for this second longer outage of my blog and the low post rate lately, especialy for the downtime. Some explaination might be in order for that About the outage, after the first time when my Dutch registrar went broke, this time the reason was a SQL Database that went over limit some time ago, for some reason or another Community server did eat a lot of space extra at Read More......(read more)

Scripting Games 2010

2010-03-28T10:01:00Z

The Scripting Games are coming again, click on the 2010 Scripting games badge below for more info : Hope to see you there ! Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More......(read more)

DPM 2010 RC1 Extended Tweet

2010-03-10T19:18:53Z

<ExtendedTweet> Grr, getting bored of typing that servername every time with DPM Cmdlets For now some helper fuctions : function Get-ProtectionGroup {Microsoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell\Get-ProtectionGroup (hostname)} function Get-Datasource {Microsoft.DataProtectionManager.PowerShell\Get-Datasource (hostname)} … … But I think this Calls for some advanced functions, proxyCmdlet’s, (or Read More......(read more)

Next PowerShell Script Club in Zurich March 2

2010-02-22T16:06:16Z

Next Month the 2nd of March there is a PowerShell scriptclub in Zurich again. For more information or to register : http://www.digicomp.ch/sitpug Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Script Club in Zurich

2009-10-28T21:00:00Z

Next week I will at the Swiss IT Pro User Group Event 3.Nov 2009 Zurich - PowerShell Script Club The first PowerShell Scriptclub in Zurich, with thanks to Desmond Lee , the Swiss IT Pro User Group and Digicomp Academy AG (Zürich) Below the excerpt from the newsletter ( the Dunglish is mine, sorry we had to be quick ) : Swiss IT Pro User Group Events - Di./Tu. 3 Nov. 2009 by IT Pros for IT Pros Subject Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Evolution Day

2009-10-27T13:38:58Z

At 3 December I will be giving a PowerShell session at the Microsoft Evolution Day in Zurich, Microsoft Evolution Day Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Office Communication Server 2007 R2, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell 2.0 – die Evolution der Microsoft Lösungen geht rasend schnell. Am Microsoft Evolution Day vom 3. Dezember 2009 werden alle neuen Produkte live vorgestellt Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Programming Praxis: Nerds, Jocks, and Lockers

2009-08-06T09:31:00Z

And another WTF Programing Praxis : Nerds, Jocks, and Lockers function get-OpenLockers ($num){1..([math]::sqrt($num))|%{$_*$_}} Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Programming Praxis: Josephus' Circle

2009-07-30T11:28:00Z

And another PowerShell excersise from the WTF (Worse than Failure) contest Programming Praxis: Josephus' Circle . (for more info see original contest post) Function get-SafeSpot ($count,$Skip) { $q = [Collections.queue](1..$count) while ($q.count -gt 1){ 1..($skip-1) |% {$q.enqueue($q.dequeue())} [void]$q.dequeue() } $q } By using a Queue (that works on a FIFO (First In First Out) base, I could Read More......(read more)