February, 2012

UK PowerShell group–February 2012 recording

The recording, slides and demo scripts from tonight’s PowerShell and SQL Server session are available as a single zip file for download from

February UG meeting–Final reminder

The UK PowerShell group presents a Live Meeting tomorrow on using PowerShell with SQL Server

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Using [wmiclass] accelerator and string substitution

Tripped over an interesting problem

I want to use the [wmiclass] accelerator because I need to find the key of a WMI class (code borrowed from PowerShell team blog – to be returned when I’ve finished with it)

$t = [WMIClass]$class

$t.properties |

Download multiple files by BITS

Last time we looked at BITS we saw how to transfer a single file. The example in the help file doesn’t work in my environment so this is what I came up with as a work around

Import-Module BitsTransfer 			

object vs value

An interesting question came up recently. A Powershell user was trying to access an AD attribute so they did something like this

$x = Get-ADUser -Identity usera -Properties * | select useraccountcontrol

When they tried to use $x it didn’t correctly in the rest of...

System Center engineering blogs

The System Center family of products is getting a big make over in the 2012 release. The team blogs have just been rebranded to reflect this System Center: Service Manager System Center:...

BITS

As well as looking at WMI I thought it was time to branch out a bit and look at other functionality that could administrators The BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) service is used for file transfer. Its normally thought of as being used across the internet but it can also be used...

Win32_AutocheckSetting class

I stumbled on this class

Get-WmiObject Win32_AutochkSetting

The useful output is

Caption          :
Description      :
SettingID        : Microsoft...

UG meeting reminder

First reminder for the UG meeting on 28February – PowerShell and SQL Server

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Count of files in a folder

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