April, 2010

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in case you are wondering how I pick the topics for these posts – its quite scientific.  I run Get-WmiObject -List win32* | where {$_.Name -notlike "*perf*"} to see the available classes and pick something that catches my eye. Sometimes it leads to a series of posts and other times its a...

Windows System Assessment Tool

The Windows System Assessment Tool was introduced with Windows Vista.  It gives a score 1-7.9 (on Windows 7) for components such as memory, processor and disk. The scores are accessible through the System icon in Control Panel – or we can use a bit of WMI

PS> Get-WmiObject...

Shares:Security

In the previous post we saw how to get the Access Mask for the current user for a particular share.  It would be better if we could dump the information for all shares and all security access in one go.

We need to use Win32_LogicalAccess

Shares: Access mask

The access mask controls what you can do i.e. what rights you have. We can use the GetAccessMask method to find the access mask but all we get back is a number we need unravel it. The number id a bit mask with the following values assigned

$mask = DATA {
ConvertFrom-StringData...

Powershell User Group Live Meeting: Modules

When: Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 7:30 PM (BST)

Where: Virtual
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Notes

We will cover the new module functionality introduced with PowerShell v2 with a biref look at some of the functionality available in Windows 7/Windows 2008...