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How (NOT) to create 4 test VM’s with Windows server 2012 in PowerShell

The PowerShell Guy — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:40:11 GMT

While testing with Hyper V in Windows 8 I Created 4 virtual machines with Windows 2012, for testing resource metering, partly in PowerShell (except for console input WS12 installation and where I cheated in the GUI ;) ) I decided to go as stupid as could be (yes I thought about removing some lines ;), but resisted, and with 82 lines in my history I (kind off) succeeded. ** Disclaimer ** Do not run...(read more)

TestPost Windows 8 with Word 2013

The PowerShell Guy — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:51:32 GMT

Here PowerShell V3 content will arrive Test Pasting Script code : get-command | measure-object | foreach { "Cmdlet count " + $PSItem . count } Pasting Console output PS C:\Users\Marc> get-command | measure-object | foreach { "Cmdlet count " + $PSItem.count } Cmdlet count 1177 Spaces at beginning and Spacing of lines seems to be a problem (did look so good in word) Greetings Read...(read more)

Meet up at MMS 2011 (and talk PowerShell)

The PowerShell Guy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:56:00 GMT

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

The PowerShell Guy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:39:49 GMT

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)

PowerShell Get-Easter function

The PowerShell Guy — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:37:24 GMT

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

The PowerShell Guy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:39:14 GMT

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)

PowerTab for PowerShell version 2.0 beta released on CodePlex

The PowerShell Guy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:45:00 GMT

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)

MSDN content from PowerShell using WDSL

The PowerShell Guy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:55:00 GMT

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)

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

The PowerShell Guy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:24:00 GMT

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)

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

The PowerShell Guy — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:19:00 GMT

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)

Scripting Games 2010

The PowerShell Guy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:01:00 GMT

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

The PowerShell Guy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:18:53 GMT

<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)

Next PowerShell Script Club in Zurich March 2

The PowerShell Guy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:06:16 GMT

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

The PowerShell Guy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMT

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)

Microsoft Evolution Day

The PowerShell Guy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:58 GMT

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)