May, 2012

UK PowerShell Group–May 2012

When: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 7:30 PM (BST)

Where: Virtual
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This is the second of two meetings dealing with the new PowerShell functionality in Windows Server 8

Notes

Richard Siddaway has invited you to...

Scripting Games 2012 comments: #14 local computer name

There are a number of ways to pass the names of the local machine into a script or function:

• use the actual name
• use the IP address (if the processing in the script can work with IP addresses)
• use 127.0.0.1 – the loop back address (if the processing in...

Scripting Games 2012 comments: #13 Default Printer

In one of the events you had to find the default printer. This can be done using WMI.

The full list of printers can seen using:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer

If you want to examine the printer objecy – to determine what information is available -...

Scripting Games 2012 comments: #12 date conversions

A few times in the games you were asked for date time based information. Now WMI has a lot of classes that return WMI information. It is in an awkward format though

PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | fl *time*

CurrentTimeZone : 60

Scripting Games 2012 comments: #11–its true

The games are over for another year. The number of entries was huge – 150% increase over last year. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who took part.

One thing I noticed was the number of scripts that made testing booleans harder than it needed to be.

A boolean can...