PowerShell 3

PowerShell 3 and Word

This is a common scenario

$word = New-Object -ComObject "Word.application"       ...
			

CDXML modules and nouns

CDXML modules don’t expose the verb and the noun of the cmdlets they publish.  If you want to discover the set of nouns in a CDXML module you need a bit of brute force:

Get-Command -Module DhcpServer |
foreach {
  ($_.Name -split "-")[1]

Jobs, WMI, CIM and more jobs

Background jobs were one of the most undervalued aspects of PowerShell v2. With the introduction of PowerShell v3 we get ways to schedule those jobs. In this post though I want to look at the new CIM cmdlets and jobs.

Using the WMI cmdlets most PowerShell users have done something like...

WMI over WSMAN

Every time I look at PowerShell v3 I seem to find a new way to access WMI!

I’ve covered the –ComputerName and –CimSession parameters before but to recap

We duplicate the way Get-WmiObject works:

$computer = $env:COMPUTERNAME
Get-CimInstance -ClassName...

PowerShell remoting and upgrading to Windows 2012

I have a number of  virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 and I upgraded one of them to Windows 2012 – an over the top upgrade rather than a format and clean install

I found that Get-PSSession –Computername didn’t work against that machine.

This parameter now looks...

Using –showwindow

The new –showwindow parameter in Get-Help pops up a little window containing the FULL help file.  Much better than having to rememebr to use –full.  PowerShell immediately returns the prompt so you can continue working – means you can have a number of help files...

Finding the drive letter of a mounted VHD

In Windows 8/2012 you can mount a VHD into the file system. Is there a way to discover the drive letter of the mounted VHD

function get-mountedvhdDrive {            
			

PowerShell v3 download

The download for PowerShell v3 – now know as Windows Management Framework as you get PowerShell, WinRM and new WMI API is now available from