Monthly Archives: August 2014

Grains of rice on a chess board

Posted on Friday 29 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

There is a story about the inventor of chess being rewarded by putting 1 grain of rice on the first square of the board; 2 on the second and so on.  How much rice does that come to?   The … Continue reading →

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Event Log Providers

Posted on Friday 29 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

An event log provider is writes to an event log.  I’ve used WMI in the past to get these but while looking for somethign else discovered that Get-WinEvent can also find this information   Get-WinEvent -ListProvider * | ft Name, … Continue reading →

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Patching Server Core

Posted on Thursday 28 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

I’ve been rebuilding my test lab after installing a SSD into the machine running it in place of the SATA drive.  Huge improvement in load speed of virtual machines – well worth the cost. I usually have a number of … Continue reading →

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European Summit deadline approaching

Posted on Thursday 28 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

There are just over two weeks left for you to register for the European PowerShell Summit. At the moment we are still short of the number that would enable us to repeat a European Summit in 2015.  We had a … Continue reading →

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DSC Resource Kit–wave 6

Posted on Thursday 28 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

The next wave of the DSC resource kit is available with some new resources and updates to old favourites. Details from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/20/dsc-resource-kit-wave-6-is-here.aspx

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Learning, always learning

Posted on Thursday 21 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell is going mainstream amongst the administrator community – it may seem slow but the last couple of years has definitely seen a sustained upswing in adoption in my experience. As more people are demonstrating the benefits we see more … Continue reading →

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Count property

Posted on Wednesday 20 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

Its frequently said that PowerShell is so big that no one can know everything about it.  I proved that today when I “discovered” a change in PowerShell of which I wasn’t aware.   If you create an array: £> $a … Continue reading →

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Split-Path serendipity

Posted on Wednesday 20 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

I’ve used Split-Path and its associated cmdlet Join-Path a lot when working with file system paths. Something I read today started me asking if it would work with URLs   It does:   £> Split-Path -Path ‘http://powershell.org/wp/forums/forum/windows-powershell-qa/’ -Leafwindows-powershell-qa £> Split-Path … Continue reading →

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European Summit countdown #1

Posted on Monday 18 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

There are four weeks left to register for the Summit if you are going to attend. Our numbers are moving in the right direction but we still need more registrations to make a 2015 Summit feasible.

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DNS client settings

Posted on Monday 18 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

Following yesterdays post there are a couple of other cmdlets worth looking at if you want to dig into the DNS settings on your client machines. Get-DnsClient wil show you the DNS relsted settings for all of your network interfaces … Continue reading →

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