PowerShell 3

Creating a Windows 2012 Domain Controller

I decided to replace one of the DCs in my test environment with a Windows 2012 Server Core machine. Server Core has really come of age in Windows 2012 – its easy to configure.

I’ve covered configuring a server before but to recap:

• Rename the machine – use...

CIM cmdlets and remote access

When you used the WMI cmdlets

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_logicalDisk -ComputerName RSLAPTOP01

You were using DCOM to access the remote machine. Even if you accessed the local machine you were using DCOM.

This changes in PowerShell v3 when using the CIM cmdlets.

If...

PowerShell Workflow–the complete series

The series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog is now complete.

The articles in the series that have been published are:

PowerShell workflows–now we are six

The sixth in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.

The articles in the series that have been published are:

Workflow article 4

The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.

The articles in the series that have been published are:

Updating Help on PowerShell v3

One of the new features in PowerShell v3 is the capability to update the help files. In fact you have to do this because PowerShell v3 doesn’t ship with any help files. Since Windows 8 RTM’d there have been a succession of new help files released.

I discovered one of my netbooks...

Workflow article 3

The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.

The articles in the series that have been published are:

Ensuring that parameter values are passed to your function

A question on the forum about a function had me thinking. The user had defined two parameters for the function and then used Read-Host to get the values.

NO

Much better way is to use an advanced function and make the parameters mandatory

				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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				January 3, 2013  6:01 AM


				
PowerShell workflow articles
				


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				PowerShell 3
I’ve written a series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog. The first two in the series have been published at:
  
			


			
				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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				December 20, 2012  10:20 AM


				
WMF compatibility
				


				Posted by: Richard Siddaway
				

				 
				PowerShell 3
The Windows Management Framework 3.0 has been released as a Windows update.
  
However there are some compatibility issues as documented on the PowerShell team blog.  if you haven’t see the post it here
  
			

			
				
				
				
				 

				

				   

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