June, 2012

Write-Host Wrong!

Many scripting languages require you explicitly write out to screen – VBScript was an example.

This leads to PowerShell that looks like this

Get-Service |
foreach {
  Write-Host $_.Name, $_.Status
}

This is bad on so many levels.

Reminder–UK PowerShell Group–July 2012 meeting

When: Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 8:30 PM (BST)

Where: Virtual
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Jonathan Medd will be talking about using PowerShell to administer a XenDesktop environment

Notes

Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an online meeting...

WMI property names

A question brought it home to me that WMI property names don’t always mean what you might think they mean – this is also true of other objects but I tripped over this one with WMI so we’ll stick with that.

PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Desktop -Filter "Name LIKE...

UK PowerShell Group–July 2012

When: Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 8:30 PM (BST)

Where: Virtual
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Jonathan Medd will be talking about using PowerShell to administer a XenDesktop environment

Notes

Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an online...

Working with profiles: 2 deleting profiles

I recently (1 June) showed how to discover the user profiles on your system. Now its time to delete them.

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				June 8, 2012  7:53 AM


				
Cleaning up the temp folder
				


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				File System, PowerShell 3
 
  
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				June 8, 2012  2:34 AM


				
PowerShell in Depth excerpts
				


				Posted by: Richard Siddaway
				

				 
				Books, PowerShell 3
If you haven’t seen them already Microsoft’s ScriptingGuy has kindly published a couple of excerpts from PowerShell in Depth by Don Jones, Jeff Hicks and myself
  
			


			
				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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				June 2, 2012  8:19 AM


				
Toggling between LAN and Wireless
				


				Posted by: Richard Siddaway
				

				 
				Network, PowerShell 3, Windows 8, Windows Server 8, WMI
One of the questions in the recent Scripting Games involved toggling between a wireless and LAN connection. Only one was to be up at any one time.
  
This can be solved using WMI but becomes hugely simpler in Windows 8/2012 as we get a bunch of cmdlets for working with network adapters.
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				June 2, 2012  7:58 AM


				
Using a colon with cmdlet parameters
				


				Posted by: Richard Siddaway
				

				 
				PowerShell, PowerShell 3, PowerShell v2
Another question at Tuesdays PowerShell group revolved around using colons to link values to parameters. I’d not really thought about before. Thinking about it  later I realised that you only really see it when passing booleans to –Confirm.  If you don’t use a colon then you get...
			

			
				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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				June 2, 2012  6:34 AM


				
Using Windows 2012 Active Directory module in a Windows 2008 R2 domain
				


				Posted by: Richard Siddaway
				

				 
				Active Directory, PowerShell 3, Windows 2008 R2, Windows Server 8
A question came up on Tuesdays UK PowerShell Group session about using the Windows 2012 Active Directory module. The recording links are here
  
			


			
				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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