PowerShell 3

PowerShell v3 installed modules

This is the list of installed modules in PowerShell v3 on Windows 8

AppLocker
Appx
BitLocker
BitsTransfer
BranchCache
CimCmdlets
DirectAccessClientComponents
Dism

Creating Virtual machines #1: Creating the VM

I’ve had two projects in mind for a while.  First I need to build a new WSUS server in my virtual environment & secondly I want to automate as much of the VM creation and configuration as possible. Oh – and I’m not using SC Virtual Machine Manager. 

I’ll be using...

PowerShell Jobs session recording

The recording, slides and demo scripts from tonight’s session on PowerShell Jobs is available from

Get-CimClass changes

One thing that I don’t think I’ve mentioned is that the Get-CimClass output changed during the development process.

In PowerShell v3 RTM you can dig into a WMI class like this

Get-CimClass -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | select -ExpandProperty CimClassMethods

Comparing group membership

A question on the forum asked about comparing the memberships of two groups & displaying information about the users that are in both. The normal reaction is that you have to iterate through the two groups but then I remembered Compare-Object and came up with this

UK PowerShell group – December 2012

Last meeting of 2012 – PowerShell jobs and scheduled tasks

When: Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)

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PowerShell jobs provide the ability to perform long running background tasks. With the introduction of...

Introduction to PowerShell workflows

The recording, slides and demo scripts from tonights session are available at

Workflow session reminder

The re-scheduled UK PowerShell group session on workflows will happen tomorrow. Details from

PowerShell Group Session

I seem to have fixed my audio problems so I’m re-scheduling the session

When: Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)

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Workflows are one of the big things in PowerShell v3. This session provides an introduction and overview of this...

UK PowerShell Group–13 November

Quick reminder of tomorrow’s session