Monthly Archives: October 2014

JEA – Just Enough Admin – brings Role Based Access Control to Windows. It enables you to delegate specific cmdlets to specific users on specific endpoints. A tool to help you create and mange JEA configurations is now available form … Continue reading →

.NET objects usually have methods as well as properties. A method enables you to do something to or with the object.  PowerShell classes can implement methods: class LastBoot {[string]$ComputerName[DateTime]$LastBootime ## methods [TimeSpan] Uptime([datetime]$lbt){ $ts = (Get-Date) – $lbt return $ts} … Continue reading →

You can usually create a .NET object from a class in one of several ways – no parameters i.e. and empty object up to an object with all of its properties populated as you create it. When you define a … Continue reading →

I’ve shown this method of creating a new object several times:   $source = @”public class LastBoot{  public string ComputerName {get; set;}  public string LastBootime {get; set;}}“@ Add-Type -TypeDefinition $source -Language CSharpVersion3 $computer = $env:COMPUTERNAME $props = [ordered]@{  ComputerName = … Continue reading →

One the extras in PowerShell 5.0 is a couple of cmdlets for workign with zip archives. Actually, you’ll find they are PowerShell advanced functions if you look in the module which you’ll find at C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive You get 2 cmdlets: £> … Continue reading →