Monthly Archives: September 2012

Jobs, WMI, CIM and more jobs

Posted on Thursday 27 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

Background jobs were one of the most undervalued aspects of PowerShell v2. With the introduction of PowerShell v3 we get ways to schedule those jobs. In this post though I want to look at the new CIM cmdlets and jobs. … Continue reading →

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WMI over WSMAN

Posted on Monday 24 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

Every time I look at PowerShell v3 I seem to find a new way to access WMI! I’ve covered the –ComputerName and –CimSession parameters before but to recap We duplicate the way Get-WmiObject works: $computer = $env:COMPUTERNAME Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem … Continue reading →

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PowerShell remoting and upgrading to Windows 2012

Posted on Sunday 23 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

I have a number of  virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 and I upgraded one of them to Windows 2012 – an over the top upgrade rather than a format and clean install I found that Get-PSSession –Computername didn’t work … Continue reading →

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Scripting Games 2013

Posted on Friday 21 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

Advanced notice that there will be a Games next year – its changing a bit though.  See http://powershell.org/games/

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Using –showwindow

Posted on Friday 21 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

The new –showwindow parameter in Get-Help pops up a little window containing the FULL help file.  Much better than having to rememebr to use –full.  PowerShell immediately returns the prompt so you can continue working – means you can have … Continue reading →

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Change user attribute based on group membership

Posted on Monday 17 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

Want to change an attribute on all members of an Active Directory group.  Then try this Get-ADGroupMember -Identity Legal | where {$_.objectclass -eq “user”} | foreach { Set-ADUser -Identity $($_.distinguishedName) -Department “Student” } Get the group members – filter out … Continue reading →

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Decoding the mounted device information

Posted on Sunday 16 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

In the previous post we looked at how to read the mounted device information. The data is in binary though – if you want it readable and not all of it is readable – try this $data = @() Get-Item … Continue reading →

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Reading mounted device information from the registry

Posted on Sunday 16 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

Interesting question about reading the registry.  How do you read HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and pull out the name of the device and the associated data. Get-Item -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\MountedDevices returns data of this form Name                           Property —-                           ——– MountedDevices                 \DosDevices\C: : {218, 187, … Continue reading →

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Random confusion

Posted on Sunday 16 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

There seems to be a bit of cofusion about how Get-Random works. Try this 1..10 | foreach {Get-Random} you’ll get  randomly selected 32-bit unsigned integer between 0 (zero) and Int32.MaxValue (0x7FFFFFFF, 2,147,483,647). The –Minimum parameter sets a minimum value – … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Summit 2013 dates

Posted on Wednesday 12 September 2012 by richardsiddaway

The dates for the summit have been announced – 22-24 April 2013 @ Microsoft campus Redmond You can register at http://powershell.org/summit 1/7 th of the tickets have already gone – don’t miss out.

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