Category Archives: Learning Powershell

Working with strings: Introduction

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2011 by

It does seem to matter what we are doing or what language we are using we end up manipulating strings. PowerShell string objects have number of methods for dealing with strings Clone            MethodCompareTo        MethodContains         MethodCopyTo           MethodEndsWith         MethodEquals           MethodGetEnumerator    MethodGetHashCode      MethodGetType          … Continue reading →

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PowerShell basics: Invoking commands

Posted on Tuesday 14 June 2011 by

We have three ways to invoke a command in PowerShell (apart from typing it at the command line and putting it in a script) These are Invoke-Command, Invoke-Expression and the call operator “&” Invoke-Command is normally used when remoting but … Continue reading →

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PowerShell V2 CTP book

Posted on Friday 9 November 2007 by

Don Jones and Jeffrey Hicks have an updated version of PowerShell TFM available.  It can de downloaded from the Sapien site see  http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell&p=1&tid=e9d1b0a1-0497-4528-85a9-bfa7e4b14593&mid=e9d1b0a1-0497-4528-85a9-bfa7e4b14593 for details of a special offer on the ebook.  The book will be updated as further CTPs … Continue reading →

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Anti-Aliasing?

Posted on Friday 9 November 2007 by

Last night I made a statement that I thought the ability to have and create aliases was the worst feature in PowerShell. That may seem like a harsh statement and one of the odder things to pick on but my reasoning … Continue reading →

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What shall I read???

Posted on Thursday 1 November 2007 by

I do quite a lot of traveling with my job and as I am a keen reader I always want to have at least one good book with me.  In order to cut down on the number of items and … Continue reading →

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Invoking external commands

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by

Interest in PowerShell is obviously growing as I am seeming questions about PowerShell appear in forums other than those dedicated to PowerShell.  One recent question was about invoking external commands in PowerShell. There are a number of ways to achieve … Continue reading →

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All Clear

Posted on Monday 1 October 2007 by

A couple of interesting cmdlets: Clear-Content – deletes the contents of an item but does not delete the item itself.  It works on files. Clear-Item - deletes the contents of an item but does not delete the item itself.  It works … Continue reading →

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Help Files

Posted on Monday 24 September 2007 by

I tend to look at most of the new PowerShell cmdlets and providers as they come along.  One thing that I have noticed in a number of products is the lack of examples. I think a few, well chosen examples make … Continue reading →

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What can I do with PowerShell

Posted on Saturday 22 September 2007 by

For a really good answer to the question have a look at the "Task Based Guide to Windows PowerShell cmdlets" at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/index.mspx There is information regarding Dates and Times System Administration Tasks Files and Folders Security and security Descriptors among … Continue reading →

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Get-Command

Posted on Sunday 16 September 2007 by

For an interesting use of Get-Command (its all documented in the help files) see this post from the PowerShell Team http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/09/15/documentation-one-liner.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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