PowerShell Trim
Profile: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell Trim – no its not a new slimming fad. Trimming is the act of removing characters – usually white space – from the beginning or end of a string. You have three methods on the String class you can use Trim TrimEnd TrimStart PS> $str = " abcdefghijk " PS>...
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PowerShell editors
Profile: Richard Siddaway
PowerShell works great when you use it interactive;y but at some point you’re likely to want to write substantial pieces of code – scripts or functions – for which you’ll need an editor. This is my take on PowerShell editors. There are PowerShell add-ins for Visual Studio – one of...
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Call for topics closing 1 October
Profile: Richard Siddaway
The call for topics is closing 1 October at 23:59 GMT. We’ve had a fantastic set of submissions. Creating an agenda for the 2018 Summit is going to be very difficult because we’ve had so many fantastic sessions submitted and I don’t have enough slots to take them all. The call for topics...
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DSC–the future?
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I was incredibly excited when I first saw DSC – it was in April 2013 as a special MVP only preview at the first PowerShell Summit – as a work in progress. Since that time my excitement has waned to the point that I now ask DSC – the future? Looking at the PowerShell Team announcement...
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PowerShell comments
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Putting comments into your code has been a long established practice – this is how you do PowerShell comments A single line comment is indicated by the # symbol # This is a comment Get-Process You can put a comment at the end of a line but not in the middle. Once you’ve added a...
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Continuous updates expansion
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Microsoft has announced a continuous updates expansion at Ignite Windows 10 was always going to be continually updated rather than new versions introduced. This year Windows Server 2016 joined the party when it was announced that there would be twice yearly updates - Windows 10 moved to the...
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Splitting multiline string
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Saw an interesting question on splitting multiline string If you get a set of strings item1 item2 item3 emailed to you then you could put them in a text file and use Get-Content to read them into an array. The question was could you paste them into PowerShell and get the same...
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PowerShell books DoD
Profile: Richard Siddaway
A number of my PowerShell books including PowerShell in Action and PowerShell in Depth will be part of Manning’s Deal of the Day on 29 September 2017 Use code dotd092917au at https://bit.ly/2hzetVX For DoD details see https://www.manning.com/dotd
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Examples of replacing WMI cmdlet with CIM cmdlet
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Following my last post I was asked about these Examples of replacing WMI cmdlet with CIM cmdlet. Example 1 gwmi win32_operatingsystem -computername $Computer -credential $creds, $cs = New-CimSession -Credential $creds -ComputerName $computer Get-CimInstance -ClassName...
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CIM not WMI
Profile: Richard Siddaway
I still see a lot of people using the WMI cmdlets – Get-WmiObject etc. You really should be using CIM nit WMI. In other words use Get-CimInstance rather than get-WmiObject etc etc. Why do I say that? Two main reasons. Firstly, the WMI cmdlets are effectively deprecated. Any further...
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