May, 2011

PowerShell UG–June 2011 reminder

Don’t forget to add the June meeting of the UK PowerShell User group to your calendar.  Its June 21 at 7.30pm BST. Details available from

Manning Deal of the Day–29 May

Today, for one day only, get 50% off PowerShell and WMI MEAP or MEAP+ebook.

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The same code can be used for PowerShell in Action – second edition and...

root\wmi–MSBatteryClass

A number of the classes in root\wmi return results from more than one class. That sounds odd but it can be explained by an example.

The namespace contains a number of classes related to the battery in laptops

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -List *battery*

MSBatteryClassEvent ...

root\wmi – speeding the testing

Testing the individual classes in root\wmi is a pain – so its time for some brute force.  I’ll select a group of classes and test the selection

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -List system* | fw

I can then iterate through them calling get-wmiobject.

This...

root\wmi – MS_SystemInformation

Continuing our exploration of the murky jungle that is the root\wmi namespace we find a number of classes related to system configuration

gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -List *system* | fw

Of theses the only one I could get a respnse from on Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2...

root\wmi – ProcessorBiosInfo

The root\wmi namespace contains a massive number of classes. Unfortunately there appears to be very little documentation available for these classes. Another issue is that many of classes do not appear to return anything (at least on my Windows 7 system – further testing is required).

New PAM version

I’ve added the 0.6 release of the PowerShell Admin Modules to codeplex - http://psam.codeplex.com/

This release adds two modules

PAMADSNAPSHOT – functions for work with AD snapshots in Windows 2008...

Testing network connectivity

One of the standard troubleshooting tasks when investigating a problem is deciding if the machine can communicate on the network. The approach is usually

• ping the loop back address to check TCP/IP is working
• ping the machines own address
• ping the default...

PowerShell in Action

The second edition of Bruce Payette’s PowerShell in Action is available. It  can be ordered from http://www.manning.com/payette2/.  The electronic version includes a free electronic version of the...

Method definitions

When we are dealing with .NET objects we have methods and properties to deal with. Properties are easy.

lets create a simple object

$str = "QWERTYUIOP"

put our string object into get-member to see the properties

$str | Get-Member...