Monthly Archives: April 2013

Getting the folder name

Posted on Tuesday 30 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

Consider the file information from get-childitem PS> $file = ls servicesv0.6.txt   Fullname gives the full path to the file PS> $file.FullnameC:\MyData\SkyDrive\Data\scripts\servicesv0.6.txt   if you use DirectoryName you get the full path to the parent directory   PS> $file.DirectoryNameC:\MyData\SkyDrive\Data\scripts   … Continue reading →

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Don’t go mad on a one liner

Posted on Tuesday 30 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

Looking at my first group of entries for Beginners Event 1 I’ve noticed what seems like a fanatical attempt to squash everything onto one line. command; command; command; command  is NOT a one liner.  The ; marks the end of … Continue reading →

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Read the Question

Posted on Tuesday 30 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

When my children were at school and going off for a test or exam the last thing I told them was read the question. It seems this needs to be repeated for the Scripting Games.  The Beginners Event 1 involved … Continue reading →

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WMI vs CIM speed tests–the final round

Posted on Tuesday 30 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

As a final test I want to see what happened when I ran multiple commands against the remote machine. PS> 1..100 | foreach {Measure-Command -Expression{1..100 | foreach {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName W12SUS; Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName W12SUS; Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk … Continue reading →

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Backticks are baaaaaad; don’t do backticks

Posted on Tuesday 30 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

The voting/judging process has started for event 1 in the 2013 Scripting Games.  What I’m going to be doing over the next few weeks is point out some of the things that I’ve noticed when judging. Some will be good … Continue reading →

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CIM vs WMI cmdlets-remote execution speed

Posted on Monday 29 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

Following on from my previous post we’ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines. I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine. First off was the WMI … Continue reading →

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AD Management in a Month of Lunches– chapter 9 in MEAP

Posted on Monday 29 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies

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CIM cmdlets vs WMI cmdlets–speed of execution

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

One question that came up at the summit was the comparative speed of execution of the new CIM cmdlets vs the old WMI cmdlets.  No of us knew the answer because we’d never tried measuring the speed. I decided to … Continue reading →

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Time for D-CRUD?

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world: C = Create R = Read U = Update D= Delete Create, Update and … Continue reading →

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Scripting Games 2013 have started

Posted on Sunday 28 April 2013 by richardsiddaway

The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit.  Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013.  Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30 April. You can … Continue reading →

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