Monthly Archives: January 2010

PowerGUI 2.0

Posted on Friday 29 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

While we are on the subject of new releases PowerGUI 2.0 recently became available. An excellent tools with a very good PowerShell editor – it should be part of everyone’s PowerShell toolbox Technorati Tags: PowerShell,PowerGUI

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PSCX 2.0

Posted on Friday 29 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

I have mentioned  PowerShell Community Extensions many times over the last few years. I have found them a very useful set of utilities to extend the basic PowerShell install. With PowerShell v2 there was an irritation that a few of … Continue reading →

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Date reminders: PowerShell User Group

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

Quick reminders of upcoming dates for Live Meeting (virtual) sessions: Tuesday 9 February – PowerShell, WMI and WQL Tuesday 2 March – Powershell, Windows 7 and the Windows 7 Resource Kit Both sessions start at 7:30 pm GMT Technorati Tags: … Continue reading →

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Sites for PowerShell User Groups

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

If you are looking for a PowerShell User Group in your area check out http://powershellgroup.org/   It includes sites for a number of groups and links to others.  The events calendar is good for showing what is happening in the … Continue reading →

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AD cmdlets UG meeting

Posted on Tuesday 26 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

Thank you to everyone who linked in to the user group meeting tonight.  There were some good questions. I’ll post the scripts, demo text, slides and recording as soon as I can find a home for it – its a … Continue reading →

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Correct version of PowerShell

Posted on Monday 25 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

It seems that versions of the PowerShell v2 CTP are still being used and problems are being reported because the incorrect version of PowerShell is being used. Tobias has a great post explaining which version you should be using and … Continue reading →

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Remember Tuesday

Posted on Sunday 24 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

Tuesday 26 January 7:30 GMT PowerShell User group meeting on Windows 2008 R2 AD cmdlets Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2010/01/06/uk-user-group-meeting-jan-2010.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell,user group

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UG Meeting 9 February

Posted on Sunday 24 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

Second Meeting of the yearWhen: Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010 7:30 PM (GMT)Where: *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Powershell, WMI and WQL Notes Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an online meeting using Live Meeting.Join the meeting.Audio InformationComputer AudioTo use computer audio, you need … Continue reading →

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PowerShell in Practice Update

Posted on Sunday 24 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

In case you were wondering what was happening with this book – the good news is that it has started progressing again.  It has been through Technical review as wel as the third general review. It is now in the … Continue reading →

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Methods and properties of data types

Posted on Tuesday 19 January 2010 by richardsiddaway

Do you sometimes get stuck & can’t remember the methods and properties of a string or an integer?  No its not galloping senility honest. One quick way to get the information is to pass an object of the appropriate type … Continue reading →

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