June 2011 - Under The Stairs - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

How do you know when a product hits mainstream?

I’ve long held the view that an product is ‘mainstream’ when other vendors release products and proclaim “Our product Y completely replaces product X”. Some times the vendor’s statement is accurate and sometimes it’s marketing puff. But no mater which...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 5:37 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Fast Track Scripting Host, FastTrack Scripting Host

Managing Cisco UC with PowerShell

In another endorsement of PowerShell, Cisco has announced earlier this month a version of the Unified Computing System Manager PowerShell toolkit . While the tool kit is still in beta, it’s an interesting announcement on two fronts. First, if Cisco takes...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2011 9:05 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Cisco, toolkit

Managing Virtual Box with PowerShell

Like Jeff Hicks, I rely on virtualisation for my work, and I too use Oracle’s Virtual Box . As Jeff mentions in a recent blog article , it’s light weight, has a pretty low footprint and works. In the office and classroom, I often use Hyper-V, but I have...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 3:43 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Windows 7, Virtualisation, Oracle, Hyper-V, Virtual Box, Jeff Hicks

The Book’s Done–Time For Fresh Air!

For the past 6 months or so, I’ve been engaged in writing a book, PowerShell Bible, for Wileys. I’m one of a team of authors – fellow writers include Karl Mitschke, Mark Schill, and Tome Tanasovski. All known folks in the PowerShell community. The book...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2011 11:14 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: book, PowerShell Bible

Asynchronous Event Handling in PowerShell

Thanks to MOW for a pointer to A Hey Scripting Guy blog entry by super-star Bruce Payette. This article comes from part of his recently updated PowerShell In Action (2nd Edition). In windows, events tend to happen asynchronously – rather than synchronously...

Published Fri, Jun 17 2011 11:18 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, book, Bruce Payette, event

Spell Checking Strings in PowerShell scripts

Let’s face it – spelling misteaks suck. Whether in a blog post or in a PowerShell script. Doug Finke has written a nice article on this subject that shows how to spell your strings in your scripts . He even includes a script to do it! You can Download...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 9:25 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, script, spell check

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