Monthly Archives: January 2007

Benefits of Powershell

Posted on Wednesday 31 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

If you haven’t seen this article on the Powershell team blog   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/31/powershell-benefits-over-com-scripting.aspx   regarding the benefits of Powershell scripting over COM based scripting.  It is well worth a read.   I’ve been a big fan of PowerShell ever since … Continue reading →

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Virtual Machine Manager

Posted on Tuesday 30 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

Systen Center Virtual Machine Manager is another product incorporating PowerShell.  For a quick look at some capabilities have a look at this   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/29/virtual-machine-manager-s-powershell-support.aspx

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Office 2007

Posted on Monday 29 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

I’ve been using Office 2007 on my personal machine for a few weeks now and I am very impressed.  The ribbon is a huge step forward in replacing what had become a bewildering mass of menus and toolbars.   I’m … Continue reading →

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Photos

Posted on Sunday 28 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

Austin took some photos at the meeting on Wednesday.  If you want to see what your fellow User Group members look like check out the Picture Library for the January 2007 meeting on the members only part of the web … Continue reading →

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PowerShell

Posted on Saturday 27 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

Adrian Beasley, a member of the UK PowerShell Users Group (www.get-psuguk.org.uk) has contributed two articles on PowerShell to the Industry Insiders site.   The articles cover PowerShell Installation and Executing a Command Line Utility from PowerShell and Waiting for it … Continue reading →

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March meeting

Posted on Friday 26 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

The next meeting of Get-PSUGUK, the PowerShell User group will be   When:  22 March 2007   Where: Memphis Room, Building 3, Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Redaing   Time: Registration – 18:00.   Start: 18:30   Agenda:   Sharepoint Administartion with … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Space Invaders

Posted on Friday 26 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

At the User Group the possibility of Space Invaders was mentioned.  It is available from here   http://ps1.soapyfrog.com/2007/01/02/space-invaders/   Enjoy!

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Redefining PowerShell functions

Posted on Friday 26 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

During the user group meeting a question came up regarding the redefinition of functions in Powershell profiles.  There are 4 four profiles that could be applied so it is possible to define functions at different stages of the profile processing … Continue reading →

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First meeting

Posted on Thursday 25 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

The User Group held its first meeting last night (24 January) at Global Knowledge in Wokingham.  Many thanks to Global Knowledge for the venue and to Thomas Lee for organising the pizza and beer.  The pizza was warm and the … Continue reading →

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Default User names

Posted on Sunday 21 January 2007 by richardsiddaway

When you create a user account with AD Users and Computers you are asked for the first name and last name of the user.  From this the wizard creates the Full Name – see screen1.  The Full Name field is … Continue reading →

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