Monthly Archives: May 2011

PowerShell Basics: 3 When not to use PowerShell

Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Is there a time when you shouldn’t use PowerShell – No Is there a time when there might be better alternatives – Yes I can think of a number of situations where writing a PowerShell script may not be the … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Basics: 2 Utility cmdlets

Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

  The utility cmdlets are the glue that we use to bind our actions together on the PowerShell pipeline. We can easily discover the list of utility cmdlets by using Get-Command *-object I split the utility cmdlets into two groups.  … Continue reading →

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Advanced Function Template typo

Posted on Monday 30 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Just discovered a typo in the advanced function template I posted. http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/05/24/advanced-function-template.aspx It should be function aaaa-yyyyyy{ [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true,     ConfirmImpact=”Medium Low High None”,     DefaultParameterSetName=”XXXXX”)] param ( [parameter(Position=0,   Mandatory=$true,   ParameterSetName=”YYYYYYYYYY”,   ValueFromPipeline=$true,    ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,   ValueFromRemainingArguments=$true,   HelpMessage=”Put your message here” )]   [Alias(“CN”, … Continue reading →

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PowerShell UG–June 2011 reminder

Posted on Monday 30 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Don’t forget to add the June meeting of the UK PowerShell User group to your calendar.  Its June 21 at 7.30pm BST. Details available from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/05/10/powershell-uk-user-group-june-meeting.aspx

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Hardware Update

Posted on Monday 30 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Last year I bought a Lenovo W510 to use as my mobile(ish) Hyper-V lab.  I mentioned the initial problems I’d had with core parking – http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2010/08/06/lenovo-w510-hyper-v-and-bsod.aspx Once those were resolved I haven’t had any other problems with it.  I never … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Basics: 1 What is PowerShell?

Posted on Monday 30 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Discussions at the PowerShell Deep Dive and the entries for the Scripting Games showed me that there is tremendous amount of interest in PowerShell but that there are a lot of people that are still unsure of how to get … Continue reading →

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Manning Deal of the Day–29 May

Posted on Sunday 29 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Today, for one day only, get 50% off PowerShell and WMI MEAP or MEAP+ebook.   The code is dotd0529cc when you order from http://www.manning.com   The same code can be used for PowerShell in Action – second edition and PowerShell … Continue reading →

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root\wmi–MSBatteryClass

Posted on Friday 27 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

A number of the classes in root\wmi return results from more than one class. That sounds odd but it can be explained by an example. The namespace contains a number of classes related to the battery in laptops gwmi -Namespace … Continue reading →

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root\wmi – speeding the testing

Posted on Thursday 26 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Testing the individual classes in root\wmi is a pain – so its time for some brute force.  I’ll select a group of classes and test the selection gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -List system* | fw   I can then iterate through … Continue reading →

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root\wmi – MS_SystemInformation

Posted on Thursday 26 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Continuing our exploration of the murky jungle that is the root\wmi namespace we find a number of classes related to system configuration gwmi -Namespace root\wmi -List *system* | fw   Of theses the only one I could get a respnse … Continue reading →

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