Monthly Archives: July 2007

Searching for Groups

Posted on Tuesday 31 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

I do a lot of work with Active Directory.  One of the common tasks with AD is searching.  I saw a question about searching an OU for groups with "exec" in their name.  There are at least two approaches – … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Writer

Posted on Tuesday 31 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

I have used Live Writer for a few posts and I quite like it.  The editor is better than editing the blog directly and it has a few features that are really useful. Managing categories is much simpler and the list … Continue reading →

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PowerShell for deployment

Posted on Tuesday 31 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

Thanks to Marco for pointing this out.   Blog entry by Scott Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PaperManagingLargeScaleSystemDeploymentAndConfigurationWithWindowsPowerShell.aspx   on using PowerShell to manage large scale software deployment and configuration.  As an example of what can be achieved through PowerShell this is superb

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PowerShell Newsgroup

Posted on Monday 30 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

If you want to get your questions about PowerShell answered try the Microsoft PowerShell discussion group at   http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell    

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Timezone Information

Posted on Monday 30 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

While looking at the information available on time via WMI I came across the Win32_TimeZone class PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_TimeZone | Format-List Bias      : 0SettingID :Caption   : (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London Caption is the important … Continue reading →

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PowerGUI

Posted on Monday 30 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

One thing I forgot to mention about the new version of PowerGUI is that you can save the scripts from the new editor to .ps1 files.  Very useful.  I am going to try and use PowerGUI as my PowerShell editor … Continue reading →

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PowerGUI 1.0.9

Posted on Sunday 29 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

The latest version of PowerGUI – 1.0.9 – is available for download from http://www.powergui.org   One of the additions for this release is a new editor for script nodes.  It has some Intellisense built into it which is a big help when … Continue reading →

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Posting Order

Posted on Sunday 29 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

Just realised I posted the articles about using WMI to get disk information in the wrong order.  Apart from the comment at the start of the last post (first one read?) they stand alone so shouldn’t be too confusing 

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Logical Drives

Posted on Sunday 29 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

This one shouldn’t be a surprise Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | Select DeviceId, Name, Description, VolumeName, DriveType, MediaType, FileSystem, Size, FreeSpace | Format-List Note this command will also show mapped drives Again if you want to see the list of properties available (Get-WmiObject -Class … Continue reading →

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Physical Drives

Posted on Sunday 29 July 2007 by richardsiddaway

Following on from mapped drives we want to look at physical drives next.  The PowerShell is very similar Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_DiskDrive | Select Caption, DeviceId, Manufacturer, VolumeName, MediaType, Model, Name, Partitions, Size, Status | Format-List Other properties available can be obtained via $d … Continue reading →

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