PSAM

PowerShell Admin Modules

Just been checking the stats on the PowerShell Admin Modules - http://psam.codeplex.com/ – and this month its reached over 1000 downloads.

I have a couple of updates in the pipeline that should be available...

Scripting Guy discusses PAM modules

My codeplex project publishing PowerShell Admin Modules (PAM) is discussed in this post

Powers

Many numbers in computing are based on powers of 2. I need to calculate some powers of 2 and realised that PowerShell doesn’t have  an operator for raising  a number  to a power.  In many languages ** or ^ supply this functionality.

In PowerShell we drop back to...

New PAM version

I’ve added the 0.6 release of the PowerShell Admin Modules to codeplex - http://psam.codeplex.com/

This release adds two modules

PAMADSNAPSHOT – functions for work with AD snapshots in Windows 2008...

PAM 0.5

Just released PowerShell Admin Modules (PAM) 0.5.  This adds the PAMStability module for working with stability and reliability metrics on Windows 7 and 2008 R2. The following 2 functions are available:

get-stabilityindex
get-reliabilityrecords

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Reliability Records

Want to know if there is something affecting the reliability of you system?  For Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 WMI providers some reliability metrics. They are enabled by default on Windows 7. group Policy has to be used to enable them on the server side.  See Computer Settings -...

System Restore Points

PowerShell 2.0 supplies 4 cmdlets for working with system restore points. 

Disable-ComputerRestore
Enable-ComputerRestore
Get-ComputerRestorePoint
Restore-Computer

This is great but they only work with the local machine. You can test...

PAM 0.4

PowerShell Admin Modules 0.4 is now available.  This adds a PAMSysInfo module to the download that includes the following functions:

Get-BIOSInfo
Get-Bus
Get-CDROM
Get-ComputerSystem
Get-CPU
Get-MemIrq
Get-OSInfo

PAM 0.3

I’ve added another module to the PSAM project on codeplex.

Version 0.3 now has:

PAMShares – for working with shares
PAMMath – for working with binary and hex
PAMEnv – for working with environmental variables

The modules can be downloaded from...

PAM 0.2

I’ve released the second module for the PowerShell Admin Modules tonight.  It is available from

http://psam.codeplex.com/releases/view/46364

This release...