Monthly Archives: August 2011

Windows firewall

Posted on Wednesday 31 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

I normally leave the Windows firewall enabled in my test environment. It ensures I don’t forget it when testing. My recent session for the TechEd:Australia PowerShell conference involved me disabling various firewall rules on the subject machine to set up … Continue reading →

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UK User Group sessions

Posted on Wednesday 31 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

This is the provisional list of meetings for the rest of the year   20 September Aleksandar Nikolic  7.30pm BST 25 October  WSMAN and WMI  – this is an extended version of the talk I gave over Live Meeting to … Continue reading →

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Webcast: Get the most from PowerShell and WMI

Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

I will be presenting the above webcast next week. Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST   Thats 6pm UK time   Register for the web cast at http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/11256.aspx

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Testing services

Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

A forum question about testing services and if they weren’t running got me thinking. I created an function to solve the question function test-service{ [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param ( [parameter(Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [Alias(“CN”, “ComputerName”)] [string]$computer=”.” , [string]$service=”BITS” , [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$file ) BEGIN … Continue reading →

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Testing computer existence in AD

Posted on Monday 29 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Forum question wanted to take a list of computer names in a csv Using the Quest cmdlets it becomes Import-Csv computers2.csv | foreach { $comp = Get-QADComputer -Name $($_.Name) if ($comp) {$location = $comp.DN} else {$location = “Does NOT exist … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell and Active Directory | 1 Comment

Deal of the Day–PowerShell

Posted on Monday 29 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell and WMI is Manning’s deal of the day – 50% off print or e-book.   The deal also extends to PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell in Action 2E See http://www.manning.com for details

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Reminder: TechEd Australia PowerShell conference

Posted on Sunday 28 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

The TechEd Australia PowerShell conference starts tomorrow at midnight UK time (9am in Australia).  Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/22/teched-australia-powershell-conference.aspx   I will be presenting on WSMAN and WMI

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Network Adapter vendors

Posted on Sunday 28 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

The NDis WMI classes expose some information about the vendors that produce the various adapters in our systems function get-adaptervendor { param( [string]$computer=”.” ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class MSNdis_CoVendorDescription ` -ComputerName $computer | foreach { $id = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi … Continue reading →

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Msndis class

Posted on Saturday 27 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

The MSNdis class from the root\wmi namespace calls the MSNdis_CoHardwareStatus and MSNdis_CoDriverVersion classes. On my Windows 7 system it tries to call something else but I get a “Get-WmiObject : Not supported” error. Neither of these classes seems to have … Continue reading →

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European PowerShell Deep Dive

Posted on Friday 26 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

I was notified last night that my submission to the Deep Dive was successful and I will be presenting. There will be a good number of PowerShell MVPs attending. This will be the PowerShell event of the year in Europe. … Continue reading →

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