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CIM cmdlets
The CIM cmdlets are found in the CIMcmdlets module. Get-Command -Module CimCmdlets produces this list of names. I’ve added some information on the tasks they perform Get-CimAssociatedInstance is for...
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Shutting down a remote computer
PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I’ll have several machines running but won’t necessarily...
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MVP renewal 2013
This afternoon I received the email notifying me that my MVP award had been renewed for another year. Thank you to Microsoft – I regard the award as a great honour. And thank you to the PowerShell...
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PowerShell excerpt week
The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning. Today is PowerShell in Practice...
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Putting the date in a file name
I often need to create file names that include the date & time the file was created in the name. I’ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest. I want the date in this...
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Manning Deal of the Day – April 6 2013
My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning’s deal of the day for 6 April 2013. The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours. This is your chance to get the book with...
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AD Management in a Month of Lunches
The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 – creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/ Related posts: Book offer–AD Management in a Month of Lunches Learn...
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Running workflows
I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows. Consider the world’s simplest workflow workflow test-w1 {“hello world”} If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8...
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Windows Server Backup
Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing...
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Creating a new disk
I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine – that’s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the...
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Busy, busy, busy
A very busy time coming up in PowerShell land with the first PowerShell Summit kicking off in just over a week’s time. The 2013 Scripting Games will also be starting very soon. I’ll try and post about...
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PowerShell Deep Dives–another MEAP release
Manning have released another set of chapters in their early access program for PowerShell Deep Dives. If you have an interest in PowerShell I would strongly urge you to buy a copy. It has chapters...
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PowerShell Summit–thank you
I’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the PowerShell Summit this last week. The Summit was a success – in no small part due to you. Your questions, and discussions, are what...
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Scripting Games 2013 have started
The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit. Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013. Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30...
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Time for D-CRUD?
I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world: C = Create R = Read U = Update D= Delete Create,...
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CIM cmdlets vs WMI cmdlets–speed of execution
One question that came up at the summit was the comparative speed of execution of the new CIM cmdlets vs the old WMI cmdlets. No of us knew the answer because we’d never tried measuring the speed. I...
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AD Management in a Month of Lunches– chapter 9 in MEAP
The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies Related posts: AD Management in a Month of Lunches AD Management in a Month of...
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CIM vs WMI cmdlets-remote execution speed
Following on from my previous post we’ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine....
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