Monthly Archives: November 2008

Open a CSV

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell has great functionality for working with csv files.  They make an excellent way of saving information generated by PowerShell – for instance Get-Process | Export-Csv data.csv -NoTypeInformation Having created a csv file how can we read it?  It is … Continue reading →

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Scripting and automation

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

Is there a difference between scripting and automation.  According to Dan http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/2008/11/23/scripting-dba-actions.aspx  the answer is yes.   Scripting means you perform a task programmatically using a scripting language (PowerShell I hope).  Automation means that the script is automatically initiated as a … Continue reading →

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get-scripting podcast 5

Posted on Thursday 27 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

Want to learn more about how PowerGUI came about and where its going – then listen to the latest get-scripting podcast at http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-scripting-podcast-episode-5-dmitry.html     Share this post :   Technorati Tags: PowerShell,podcast

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Hexadecimal

Posted on Wednesday 26 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

I was working with an Exchange 2007 system today – using Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus.  One of the things I was interested in was the logs that had been generated, replicated and replayed.  Exchange 2007 uses 1 MB log files and the file … Continue reading →

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Testing AD existence

Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

Another question from the webcast concerned testing for the existence of an OU if you know its distinguished name.  It turns out that the System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class has an Exits method that can be used for testing in this way. One … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and DHCP

Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

One of the questions on the AD webcast I’ve just finished was about administering DHCP with PowerShell.  As far as I am aware there isn’t an interface available through .NET, WMI or COM that enables us to administer DHCP servers … Continue reading →

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Tee-Object

Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

In my post on PowerShell Objects –  http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1875.entry – I mentioned Tee-Object and gave an example.  Mats left me a message asking why Tee and asking did it mean temporary. I had always looked at it as a branching – … Continue reading →

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Correction

Posted on Monday 24 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

The regular expressions in my previous post should have been PS> "Richard" -match "R.*True PS> "Richard" -match "[A-Z].*"True PS> "Richard" -match "[R][ic]+.*"True The * of a wildcard has to be replaced by .* which means any character except a new … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions

Posted on Monday 24 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

Lets start with confession time. Regular expressions are something I have tended to avoid like the plague.  Why? I suppose its because I’ve never taken the time to understand them. Having seen some of the powerful things that can be … Continue reading →

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Discovering PowerShell

Posted on Sunday 23 November 2008 by richardsiddaway

When I’m talking, or writing, about PowerShell I often refer to your four friends when you are first learning PowerShell.  These are: get-help get-member get-command get-psdrive Between them you can discover a vast amount of information about how PowerShell works.  … Continue reading →

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