Monthly Archives: August 2008

One last look at drives and then we are on to folders. Script Center Home > Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide > Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration > Script Runtime Primer > FileSystemObject > Managing Disk Drives Ensuring … Continue reading →

One of the most used objects in VBScript is the FileSystemObject.  While much of its functionality is available through other means in PowerShell as we will see in future posts there is still much we can do with it. Script … Continue reading →

Chapters 3 and 4 are now available through the Manning Early Access Program – http://www.manning.com/siddaway/ Chapter 3 is concerned with using some of the essential technologies with PowerShell – ADSI, .NET, COM and WMI. The new features in PowerShell V2 … Continue reading →

I’m skipping Chapter 3 of the guide for now as its all about the Windows Script Host.  Jumping to chapter 4 Listing 4.1 enumerates the disk drives Script Center Home > Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide > Scripting Concepts and … Continue reading →

In http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1658.entry we saw how to get the difference between two dates. Let’s look at working out a day in the future. Script Center Home > Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide > Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration > … Continue reading →

If you are going to be in Stockholm on 16 September don’t forget the PowerShell event and the new PowerShell UG meeting http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/technet/events/powershell/   Share this post :   Technorati Tags: Powershell,Sweden

The number of days between two dates has been covered before so we’ll keep this one quick. Script Center Home > Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide > Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration > VBScript Primer > VBScript Reference … Continue reading →

While playing round with the dates for the previous post I made an odd discovery. PS> Get-Date 27 August 2008 22:09:50 PS> $now = Get-DatePS> $now 27 August 2008 22:09:59 PS> "Now: $($now)"Now: 08/27/2008 22:09:59PS>PS> "Now: $(get-date)"Now: 08/27/2008 22:10:37 Notice … Continue reading →

I am going to skip a bit of the guide as the input and error handling are quite different between VBScript and PowerShell.  We will see both of those concepts later.  For now we will jump forward to looking at … Continue reading →

If we want to extend our disk checking to multiple machines we can input the computer names via an array. Script Center Home > Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide > Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration > VBScript Primer … Continue reading →