Monthly Archives: June 2009

out-gridview

Posted on Tuesday 30 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

The version of PowerShell that ships with Windows 7 RC has fixed out-gridview so that we can display more than 10 columns. try get-process | select * | Out-GridView to test it Technorati Tags: PowerShell,version 2

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AD PowerShell on Windows 2008/2003 – supposedly

Posted on Sunday 28 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

As James pointed out recently the AD Web Service from Windows 2008 R2 has been released for Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 –  see http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/06/23/use-active-directory-powershell-to-manage-windows-2003-2008-dcs.aspx for details. Having installed it there doesn’t appear to be any sign of the AD … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Learning Manager

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

I went on to the Microsoft site looking for books on SQL Server 2008.  What you get is an incomprehensible jumble of stuff.  Don’t tell me about everything there is – let me get to the information I want. I … Continue reading →

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SQL Server autoclose

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

Buck Woody blogged about SQL Server autoclose and how it should be set to being off  – http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/archive/2009/06/24/sql-server-best-practices-autoclose-should-be-off.aspx  I’m doing a lot with SQL Server and PowerShell at the moment and it started me thinking that I could easily set … Continue reading →

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PowerShell survey

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell team want to know how you find PowerShell related material – scripts, training material etc etc http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/24/new-powershell-survey-on-connect.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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foreach usage

Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

I’ve noticed the way foreach is being used and it falls into two groups. I am using foreach-object to keep the discussion straight – like everyone else I use the foreach alias – yes I know I rant about aliases … Continue reading →

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AD Recovery

Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

I have always been impressed by by Quest’s AD Recovery Manager and now its even better – yep it has PowerShell cmdlets see http://wiki.powergui.org/index.php/Quest_Recovery_Manager_for_Active_Directory_cmdlets_reference Technorati Tags: PowerShell,Active Directory,Quest

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Scripting Games – Event 6 and 7

Posted on Tuesday 23 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

Event 6 Beginners – find the errors in the script Advanced – read a text file of a network trace and find the delay can’t be bothered.  Beginners was done last year plus I really hate scripts that have $objxxx    … Continue reading →

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PowerShell in Practice Chapter 13

Posted on Monday 22 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

Chapter 13 – IIS – is now available on MEAP  http://www.manning.com/siddaway Technorati Tags: PowerShell

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Games: Advanced 4

Posted on Sunday 21 June 2009 by richardsiddaway

Read a file and create a graph of the results.  The quickest way to graph the data is to take the height and display a number of “*” depending on the value. 001002003004005006007008 clsGet-content "High Jump Stats_Adv4.txt" | foreach {    $data = $_ -split ","    Write-Host "Jumper: $($data[1]) $($data[0]) … Continue reading →

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