http://powershell.com/cs/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=app:weblogs&tag=scripting&orTags=0&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'app:weblogs' matching tag 'scripting'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 (Build: 30929.2835)http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/06/13/adding-system-path-to-ciminstance-objects.aspxThu, 13 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:24250AnonymousThe other night when I presented for the Mississippi PowerShell Users’ Group, one of the members showed some PowerShell 3.0 code using the CIM cmdlets. At issue is how the CIM cmdlets handle the WMI system properties like __SERVER and __RELPATH. By default, those properties aren’t displayed, but they are captured in the CimSystemProperties property. [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/06/12/turning-cli-tools-into-powershell-tools.aspxWed, 12 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:24158AnonymousLast night I gave a presentation for the Mississippi PowerShell User Group. My talk was based on the chapter I contributed to the forthcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book. In the chapter I explore different techniques for turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. My presentation demonstrated those techniques in action. As promised, I’ve bundled my [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/06/07/friday-fun-it-s-powershell-baby.aspxFri, 07 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:24026AnonymousThe other day I received an email looking for guidance on using Invoke-Webrequest to pull data from a table on a web page. Specifically, he wanted to get the list of popular baby names from http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html. I gave him some quick tips but figured this would also be another teaching opportunity. Using Invoke-Webrequest with PowerShell [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/16/test-64-bit-operating-system.aspxThu, 16 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23526AnonymousOne of the great features of PowerShell is how much you can get from a relatively simple one line command. For example. you might want to test if a computer is running a 64-bit operating system. You can find out with a command as simple as this. [crayon-5194daf6859b0/] If you are running PowerShell 3 you [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/14/scrub-up-powershell-content.aspxTue, 14 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23460AnonymousIt is probably a safe bet to say that IT Pros store a lot of information in simple text files. There’s nothing with this. Notepad is ubiquitous and text files obviously easy to use. I bet you have text files of computer names, user names, service names, directories and probably a few that are unique [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/13/powershell-scripting-games-2013-impressions.aspxMon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23440AnonymousNow that the PowerShell Scripting Games for 2013 are well underway, I thought I’d share my thoughts and impressions on what I’ve seen. I’m very impressed with the number of entries and generally the quality is pretty good. But as a judge I see repeated items that bear comment. These comments are in no particular [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/09/getting-top-level-folder-report-in-powershell.aspxThu, 09 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23372AnonymousOne of the sessions I presented recently at TechDays San Francisco was on file share management with PowerShell. One of the scripts I demonstrated was for a function to get information for top level folders. This is the type of thing that could be handy to run say against the root of your shared users [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/08/powershell-messagebox.aspxWed, 08 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23341AnonymousRecently I posted an article explaining how to create a popup box in PowerShell using the Wscript.Shell COM object from our VBScript days. That was something I presented at the PowerShell Summit. Another option is a MessageBox, again like we used to use in VBScript. This works very much like the popup except the user [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/05/07/why-doesn-t-my-pipeline-work.aspxTue, 07 May 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23309AnonymousI saw a little discussion thread on Twitter this morning which I felt needed a little more room to explain. Plus since we’re in ScriptingGames season beginners might like a few pointers. I always talk about PowerShell, objects and the pipeline. But sometimes what looks like a pipelined expression in the PowerShell ISE doesn’t behave [...]http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/lonelyadministrator/archive/2013/04/29/powershell-popup.aspxMon, 29 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMTf421715f-7aba-45f0-8a8d-44de5318a3a7:23103AnonymousAt the recent PowerShell Summit I presented a session on adding graphical elements to your script without the need for WinForms or WPF. One of the items I demonstrated is a graphical popup that can either require the user to click a button or automatically dismiss after a set time period. If this sounds familiar, [...]