Monthly Archives: February 2015

PowerShell Europe 2015 Agenda

Posted on Monday 23 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

As has been announced registration for the PowerShell Summit Europe 2015 opens on 27 February 2015. http://powershell.org/wp/2015/02/20/powershell-summit-europe-registration/ Other details on the Summit can be found here:  http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-europe-2015/ The agenda for the Summit can be found on the event site for … Continue reading →

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Change to DSC Resource Kit release strategy

Posted on Saturday 21 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/02/13/new-and-improved-resource-kit.aspx details the new resources and bug fixes in wave 10 of the DSC resource kit. This is a much smaller release than the of late but includes new resources for initializing and formatting disks IMPORTANT … Continue reading →

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DSC Resource Kit Wave 10

Posted on Thursday 19 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

The next release (wave 10) of the Desired State Resource Kit is available. You can download the whole of the resource kit from https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d This version includes the IIS resources that were missing in wave 9

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WMF 5.0 February 2015 preview

Posted on Thursday 19 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

A new preview of Windows Management Framework 5.0 (PowerShell) is available. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/02/18/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-february-2015-is-now-available.aspx for details. The release notes indicate which new features are considered stable and which are still regarded as experimental and therefore subject to change. Downloads are available … Continue reading →

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Copy a file with WMI

Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

A question came up on the forum about copying files with CIM (WMI). I normally use Copy-Item rather than CIM as its easier. The questioner was using CIM_LogicalFile when I’ve normally used CIM_DataFile so I decided to take a look … Continue reading →

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Shutting down machines in parallel

Posted on Tuesday 17 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

My test lab is a set of virtual machines running on a Lenovo w1510 laptop. When I’ve finished working for the day I want to shut down the virtual machines and the laptop. I may have anywhere between 2 and … Continue reading →

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Testing AD replication

Posted on Monday 16 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

I thought that using a workflow with its foreach –parallel construct would be a good way to test AD replication. I found that I got double the results – the foreach seemed to go to each machine twice. Eventually decided … Continue reading →

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Typing variables

Posted on Sunday 15 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

I was recently asked a question about typing variables after thinking about it came up with this demonstration. Create a variable with an integer value £> $a = 2£> $a.GetType() IsPublic IsSerial Name——– ——– —-True     True     Int32 AS you would … Continue reading →

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Modifying AD attribute – PO Box

Posted on Saturday 14 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

I was left a question on this post – https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2762&action=edit Asking how to modify the PO Box value for a user account.  This attribute can be set on the Address tab of AD Users and Computers but isn’t directly visible … Continue reading →

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Starting VMs based on WSUS state

Posted on Tuesday 10 February 2015 by richardsiddaway

I use WSUS in my lab to update machines – means I only have to download updates once. The issue is that I have to start the VMs so they can communicate with the WSUS server. WSUS will start to … Continue reading →

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