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SLMgr Commands and Options

I’ve been dealing a lot lately with activation of Server 2008. It’s not been as easy as I’d like. In searching for some help, I came across a great article on SLMgr: SLMgr Commands and Options with Windows Vista Product Key Activation. This article provides...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 2:09 PM by Under The Stairs

Disk to VHD – Another Cool Tool from the Sysinternals Guys

Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have released yet another cool tool – Disk2VHD (version 1.21) which you can download from here . As it turns out, I’m looking to convert one of my physical boxes to a VM – I use the system rarely but don’t want to chuck...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2009 7:52 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Sysinternals, Virtualisation, Disk2VHD, VHD

Windows 7 and Virtual Server

With Windows 7 now at RTM and in my hands, the time has come to start to migrate over. I got the ISO images I needed last week, and immediately started to get things running. One specific thing I needed is to get Virtual Server running on Win 7. I am...

Published Sun, Aug 09 2009 7:58 AM by Under The Stairs

Determining If An Object Is An Array

Over on Hal Rotettenberg’s blog ( TechProsaic ), he recently posted an interesting article about how to tell if an object in PowerShell is an array or a scalar. His solution was to use the Get-Type method, and to look for the BaseType property of the...

Published Sun, Jan 18 2009 7:38 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, .NET, object, COM, array

The Official Scripting Guys Forum

Just a heads-up that those cool Scripting Guys from Microsoft now have a on-line web forum for help on scripting. Just launched, The Official Scripting Guys Forum is a part of the overall TechNet forum and is a web-only forum (sadly no NNTP). The forum...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2009 1:11 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, TechNet, Scripting Guys, Microsoft

Rich Copy – A Must Have Application

A very long time ago, when I was contracting for Microsoft, I got a copy of a cool internal application called Rich Copy – sort of a RoboCopy on steroids. The Internally obtained version of Rich Copy timed out after a while which was a shame.But today...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2009 8:00 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: TechNet, Rich Copy, utility

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

Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide

As I pointed out in a blog post a while back , Microsoft Learning publishes a web page displaying the number of MCPs in the world. Well they used to – it looks like the page ( https://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx ) now just re-directs...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2010 12:14 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: MCP, Microsoft Learning

OCS, WMI and PowerShell

This past week, I was teaching OCS Voice Ignite in Munich and a colleague (superstar Robin Edwards). During the week, we chatted about how to configure OCS’s Address Book service. This is a topic that comes up a lot in our OCS training, especially as...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 4:07 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, WMI, OCS, OCS R2

SCCM PowerShell Module

The relentless community development on all things PowerShell continues unabated. Today, I found a module for use with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This module contains the following functions: Get-SCCMCommands Connect-SCCMServer Get-SCCMObject...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 6:56 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, module, SCCM, System Center Configuration Manager

PowerShell Audit Reports – Turning Great Scripts Into a Module

I just read a neat blog post entitled PowerShelling Audit Reports over on the TenBrink Tech blog . This blog post sets out three scripts: GetRecursiveGroupMembership.ps1, Audit-QuickGroup.ps1, and Audit-MultipleGroups.ps1. The second and third make use...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 6:25 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell V2, CTP3, module, Quest QAD Tools, manifest, Quest

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

Parameter Attributes in PowerShell V2 CTP Advanced Functions

In PowerShell V2 CTP3, you can create Advanced Functions which are, in effect, cmdlets written in script. I’ve already blogged about some of the cool features, particularly AutoHelp , which I find utterly cool! One neat aspect is the ability to define...

Published Sat, Jan 03 2009 5:06 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, cmdlet, PowersShell, Attribute, Advanced Function

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

Enums, Enum values and PowerShell

I’ve been reading Jeffrey Snover's discussions on ENUMs over on the PowerShell Team blog ( here , and here ). I knew most of this stuff and have been playing with Enums and PowerShell for a while. I’ve created a bunch of sample scripts...

Published Fri, Dec 26 2008 9:09 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Shay Levy, scripts, enum, script, system.globalization.numberstyles, c#

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