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Monthly Archives: November 2011
UK PowerShell Group November–reminder
UK PowerShell Group meeting – Jonathan Medd on “Whats new in PowerCLI 5” details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx
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Using calculated fields in subsequent processing
A calculated field can be created in Select-Object or Format-Table. When you use Format-Table processing effectively stops, the pipeline terminates and you are dumping the results to screen. The objects produced by Format-Table are not meant for further processing. If … Continue reading
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Infrastructure Architecture–from the Middle Ages to Now
i often wonder about how we go about performing Infrastructure Architecture in particular and Architecture in general. We spend a lot of time and effort creating frameworks such as Zachman and TOGAF; we create large bodies of data in the … Continue reading
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Swapping virtual switches
Virtualisation is a great technique for creating demo labs. I took my laptop with a bunch of VMs of Windows 8/Server 8 to the PowerShell Deep Dive. Normally I run my “server” laptop and my development laptop on a switch … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell V2, Virtualisation
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Patch Tuesdays 2012
I’ve shown these functions before but as we head rapidly towards 2012 we need to plan next years schedules. One perennial for Windows administrators is patching – therefore we need to know patch Tuesdays. This is next years offenders 10 … Continue reading
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Set registry key owner
In chapter 7 of PowerShell and WMI I stated that I would post a .NET version of a script to set ownership of a registry key. The WMI method needs Vista or above so we need the .NET version for … Continue reading
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Hosts file – add an IPv6 address
This builds on adding an IPv4 address – http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/10/24/hosts-file-add-a-record.aspx function add-IPv6hostfilecontent { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$IPAddress, [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$computer ) $file = Join-Path -Path $($env:windir) -ChildPath “system32\drivers\etc\hosts” if (-not (Test-Path -Path $file)){ Throw “Hosts file not found” } $data = … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, PowerShell V2
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IPv6 Link local addresses and device identifier
If I run ipconfig on my system the partial results are this Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : tiscali.co.uk Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::6d95:b824:6a72:a0a9%11 IPv4 Address. . … Continue reading
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PowerShell User Group 22 November
When: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011 9:00 PM (GMT)Where: Live Meeting *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* PowerShell MVP and PowerCLI Jonathan Medd discusses the new features and PowerCLI 5 and how to get the best from them Notes Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend … Continue reading
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Working with IPv6
A comment was left on one of the articles in my recent series on working with the hosts file asking about using IPv6. I’ve not used it really as I’ve never had any reason but it seems a good idea … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, PowerShell and WMI, PowerShell V2
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