Monthly Archives: July 2008

Subject swap

Posted on Thursday 31 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to swap the subject of tonight’s User Group Live Meeting.  I’m doing a session on administering IIS 7 from PowerShell showing and contrasting the various options.  Marco’s session on the net cmdlets is … Continue reading →

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UK PowerShell User Group Live Meeting

Posted on Tuesday 29 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

Date: 31 July  2008 Time: 7pm BST (GMT+1) Marco Shaw, PowerShell MVP will be talking about /n software netcmdlets Join the meeting.Audio InformationComputer AudioTo use computer audio, you need speakers and microphone, or a headset. First Time Users:To save time … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Event Registration Open

Posted on Monday 28 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

There will be a TechNet PowerShell event in Birmingham (UK) on the afternoon of 14 October 2008.  Registration is open at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032383908&Culture=en-GB   Share this post :   Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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Blog Mirror

Posted on Monday 28 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

This blog is now mirrored on http://msmvps.com/blogs/RichardSiddaway/Default.aspx  Evidently spaces.live.com is blocked by some firewalls so the blogs cannot be accessed.  msmvps.com should be accessible.   Share this post :   Technorati Tags: PowerShell,blog

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PowerGUI – intellisense

Posted on Monday 28 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

One nice touch I found with the PowerGUI editor recently – if you start to type a path in the filesystem there is an intellisense popup to enable you to select the folder and subfolders.  Very useful and saves typing … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Event

Posted on Friday 25 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

There will be a TechNet PowerShell event in Birmingham (UK) on the afternoon of 14 October 2008. Registration details will follow next week when they are available. If there is sufficient interest we will look at running a PowerShell User … Continue reading →

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PowerGUI 1.5.1 RTM

Posted on Friday 25 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

PowerGUI has released version 1.5.1  – download from http://www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa Details from http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/powergui-151-rtms/   Share this post :   Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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String expansion

Posted on Thursday 24 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

One of the nice features of PowerShell is string expansion.  Put a variable in the middle of a double quoted string (single quoted strings take the contents literally and don’t expand) and the variable is substituted into the string when … Continue reading →

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User Group Meeting – New Date

Posted on Wednesday 23 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

Apologies but we need to move the Live Meeting hosted by the UK PowerShell User group to 31 July. Marco Shaw, PowerShell MVP, will be talking about /n software NetCmdlets Webcast will be 1 hour starting at 7pm UK time … Continue reading →

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WMI Classes

Posted on Tuesday 22 July 2008 by richardsiddaway

In this post http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1525.entry I talked about the difference between Get-WmiObject and [WmiClass].  I’ve had a comment left asking "But how do you know that there is Win32_Process inside this class?!?!?" This question could have several meanings.  What I did … Continue reading →

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