July, 2011

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

This may be useful for people starting PowerShell. If you can’t remember what punctuation sign does what in PowerShell get a copy of this cheat sheet

Live Mesh Update

Couple of points worth noting if you are going to use Live Mesh

(1) File paths longer than 269 characters (folder paths > 248) won’t sync  - shorten the path to fix

(2) PST files won’t sync – even if they are not in use

By default Mesh wants...

Live Mesh

One problem I’ve had for a while is how to keep my script library synchronised across a number of machines.  I have a laptop I use for my development work at home and I have two netbooks – at least one of which is always with my when I’m away from home.

I’ve tried using...

Network Adapter speed and duplex

One thing that can cause problems on the network is the duplex setting on the network adapter.  If this doesn’t match the switch port then at best you will get performance issues and at worst no connectivity.

The speed of the connection can be obtained from Win32_NetworkAdapter...

The New IT?

A recent headline asked "How will you fit into the New IT?"

My answer is what new IT?

I have been working in IT for well over 20 years and in that time I can't remember a period when there wasn't a significant change coming:

• introduction of PCs
• growth of...

Just a thought

I’ve working with WMI a lot recently and frequently seen things like this

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName dc02

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName dc02

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName dc02

Each of...

PowerShell remoting–User group meeting

Final reminder for the user group meeting on Tuesday 26 July

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Can I? Should?–copying VBscripts

One of the major errors I see PowerShell newcomers performing is copying script structures and syntax of VBScript into PowerShell. Let me give you an example

This piece of VBScript is borrowed from the Windows 2000 scripting guide

strComputer = "."

Can I? Should I?–examples–legacy scripts

In this post http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/17/can-i-should-i.aspx I stated that PowerShell...

July 2011–User Group reminder

Next Tuesday – 26 July there will be a UK user group session looking at PowerShell remoting:

• cmdlets with remoting capabilities
• .NET remoting capabilities
• Invoke-Command
• PowerShell sessions
• WinRm and WSMan cmdlets

Details on joining the live...