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November 24, 2010  1:58 PM

January 2011 PowerShell User Group Meeting



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, User Group

Save the date -  11 January 2011  7.30 GMT

 

UK PowerShell User group presents a Live Meeting with Ed Wilson – THE Scripting Guy.

Ed will be talking about: 

Windows PowerShell Best Practices

Learn Windows PowerShell best practices as...

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November 20, 2010  8:29 AM

PAM 0.4



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, PSAM, WMI

PowerShell Admin Modules 0.4 is now available.  This adds a PAMSysInfo module to the download that includes the following functions:

Get-BIOSInfo
Get-Bus
Get-CDROM
Get-ComputerSystem
Get-CPU
Get-MemIrq
Get-OSInfo

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November 20, 2010  6:59 AM

Memory, IRQ and devices



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Hardware, PowerShell v2

One of our most valuable system resources is memory. Back in the day we also used to worry about IRQs as we only had 16 but modern Windows gets round this for us.

If you want to know what memory is being used by which device then try this.  We also get IRQ as a bonus

$source...

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November 18, 2010  1:25 PM

Joining a domain



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, Windows 2008 R2

I was creating a new virtual machine and decided to test the JoinDomainOrWorkgroup method of the Win32_ComputerSystem class

The syntax is relatively straight forward

$comp = Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem
$password = "Gu3ssWh4t"
$user =...

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November 14, 2010  2:07 PM

PAM 0.3



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2, PSAM

I’ve added another module to the PSAM project on codeplex.

Version 0.3 now has:

PAMShares – for working with shares
PAMMath – for working with binary and hex
PAMEnv – for working with environmental variables

The modules can be downloaded from...

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November 14, 2010  4:46 AM

PowerShell and WMI book



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Books, PowerShell v2, WMI

A few months ago I started work on a follow up to PowerShell in Practice – http://www.manning.com/siddaway/ .

This book will also be published by Manning. It covers PowerShell and WMI.  These...

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November 12, 2010  1:46 PM

PowerShell in Practice goes mobile



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Books, PowerShell v2

PowerShell in Practice is now available in mobi and epub formats for use on Kindle, iPhone, Sony Reader etc etc

If you have a copy of the book you should be getting emailed about the availability of these new formats.  Otherwise check out

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November 8, 2010  4:38 PM

Cache memory



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Hardware

 

Processors have cache memory as we saw when we looked at Win32_Processor. We can find more details about the cache memory using the Win32_CacheMemory class

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November 7, 2010  4:00 PM

PowerShell PowerCamp



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell v2

Interested in PowerShell?  Want to learn it fast? Want to learn from an expert?

if so check out http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2010/11/weekend-powershell-camp-event-on-cards.html for info on a...

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November 7, 2010  3:49 PM

Computer Bus



Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Hardware, PowerShell v2

I’ve been looking at computer hardware a lot recently.  The buses inside a system can be interesting

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