SysAdmin Day

Today is SysAdmin day - http://sysadminday.com/ Time to show your appreciation for the people who keep your computing going
.psd1 files

.psd1 files are usually used as module manifests You can test the manifest PS> Test-ModuleManifest -Path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pester\3.4.0\Pester.psd1' | fl Name : Pester Path : C:\Program...
Get-ComputerInfo

One of the new items in PowerShell 5.1 is the Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet PS> Get-Command Get-ComputerInfo -Syntax Get-ComputerInfo [[-Property] <string[]>] [<CommonParameters>] PS> ...
PowerShell 5.1 preview

Windows 10 shipped with PowerShell 5.0 installed. The latest preview builds, and presumably, next months anniversary update have had PowerShell 5.1. Windows 2016 TP5 also ships with PowerShell 5.1 A PowerShell 5.1 preview is now available for Windows 7, 8.1, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Details...
PowerShell in Action–Deal of the Day-23 July 2016

Deal of the Day July 23: Half off my book Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition. Use code dotd072316au at https://bit.ly/2afnOPj Deal of the Day details at https://www.manning.com/dotd
Parallel copy files over remoting session

Manning Deal of the Day 19 July 2016

Deal of the Day July 19: Half off my book Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches. Use code dotd071916au at https://bit.ly/2a8jroO
For more information on Manning’s Deal of the Day see -
Biggest innovation in PowerShell is…

The imminent arrival of PowerShell 5.1 in the Windows 10 Anniversary update (assumption as the Windows 10 Insider previews have been showing PowerShell 5.1 for some time) and Windows Server 2016 (TP5 shows PowerShell 5.1) and the fact that PowerShell was officially released to the world 10 years...
Summer goodies

Looks like we’re set for some summer goodies over the next few months. First up is Windows 10 anniversary update that’s due 2 August
Copying across multiple remoting sessions

I needed to copy the same file to multiple machines so I tried this: $computers = 'W16CN01', 'W16CN02' $s = New-PSSession -ComputerName $computers Copy-Item -Path 'C:\Source\Windows 2016 TP5\Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5...