January 2009 - Under The Stairs - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Likening to Dave Edmunds

Many, many years ago, I spent a bank holiday in Amsterdam with a life friend. We had a pretty outrageous time. The highlight was seeing Dave Edmunds in the Paradiso. We had outstanding seats and the evening was magic. It was the early 1980’s and Dave...

Published Sat, Jan 31 2009 12:30 PM by Under The Stairs

The MCSE Is Dead – It’s Official!

In June 2007, I posted that MSL was planning on ditching the MCSE . It was not a popular post – within a few hours of it going up, I was asked by MS to take it down. Well, now Bill Chapman has confirmed: The MCSE IS DEAD . This was disappointing...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 8:49 AM by Under The Stairs

Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 7 – Available Now

The latest edition of the Get-Scripting podcast is now available for your listening pleasure . The interview this month is with your truly – Alan had his pod-mike with him at the last UK PowerShell user group meeting and we chatted about things PowerShell...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 5:04 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, monad, #Requires

PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting

If you are around and on line on Thursday evening (17:00 UK time), check out the Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #8. This meeting will feature June Blender from Microsoft – no doubt she’ll be talking about the PowerShell Documentation. Go...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 3:55 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Virtual User Group, June Blender

QDB: Quote #244321- The joys of social engineering

I’ve long enjoyed examples of social engineering, hoping I’d never fall for them. The IRC chat, at QDB: Quote #244321 , is a great example of this. Take a read (I had to read it twice!). Technorati Tags: security Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 4:27 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: security

PowerShell Code Repository - Get-Exception

I’ve been working with PowerShell’s error handling – trying to get a better handle on it. Yesterday, I looked at general error handling and discussed how to trap or catch an exception. By handling errors in your scripts, you make the script more production...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 12:13 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, Error handling

Error Handling with PowerShell

At last week’s UK PowerShell User Group meeting, Jeremy gave a talk on Error handling. It got me thinking about the whole business of errors and error handling in PowerShell. One of the great differences between casual and production scripts is the need...

Published Mon, Jan 26 2009 12:16 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, finally, throw, Error handling, trap, catch, Try

I’m Going to TechEd US!

Every year, like many of you, I submit proposals for TechEd. In recent years, they’ve been less than successful – the competition is very fierce and there is so much great content to choose from. I almost have to feel sorry for the Microsoft folks having...

Published Mon, Jan 26 2009 3:52 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, OCS, Office Communications Server, SIP, TechEd US, TechEd

Pismo File Mount Audit Package

I’ve just got a new laptop (Dell Lattitude E6500) and am running Win7 Beta. The combination is awesome – my old laptop (running XP) looks so old and dated. One thing I’ve relied on for many years is Daemon Tools. I use this to mount ISO images of software...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2009 6:16 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7, Pismo, ISO

More in PowerShell’s #Requires Statement

I recall the moment of amusement when Jeffrey Snover revealed the #Requires PowerShell statement when the first release of PowerShell V2 occurred. It had been in PowerShell V1, but was a very tight secret. As it turns out, with V2’s beta, the #Requires...

Published Sat, Jan 24 2009 1:27 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, #Requires

Blog Posting This Week

It looks like some of my daily blog posts did not quite make it up to their sites on time. The posts (for both this blog and my PowerSHell Scripts blog) were written off line and I thought had been successfully posted. My Blogger-fu must be weak this...

Published Sat, Jan 24 2009 10:08 AM by Under The Stairs

Get-Scripting Podcast

I recently wrote about a cool weekly Podcast, The PowerScripting Podcast , delivered by Jonathan Walz and Hal Rottenberg. This is a great resource, and you can watch it in progress every Friday Morning at 0200 UK time. For most normal folks, this may...

Published Fri, Jan 23 2009 10:15 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, podcast, Get-Scripting podcast

Interview for the Get-Scripting PodCast

As I noted yesterday , Last night, I attended a great PowerShell user group on Friday night. One highlight that I forgot to mention was that I was interviewed for the Get-Scripting podcast. This will be broadcast sometime next week. Technorati...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 9:40 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Get-PSUKUG, Get Scripting Podcast, PowerShell User Group, PowerShell UK User Group

Group Policy PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7

I’ve been writing this week about using GPOs with PowerShell. I noticed today, over on the Group Policy Team blog a neat article: Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 . With Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, we’ll have decent cmdlet support...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2009 4:59 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Windows 7, Group Policy, cmdlet, cmdlets

The Dead to Perform at Obama Inauguration

On several levels, this is pretty cool. What’s left of the Grateful Dead will play today at the inauguration of Barack Obama. See See Relix Magazine’s article - The Dead to Perform at Obama Inauguration . I’ll be in class all day, but I sure hope to catch...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2009 5:22 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, Grateful Dead

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