Monthly Archives: April 2016

Free ebook: IoT

Posted on Friday 29 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

A free ebook from Manning: Using the Web to Build the IoT is a collection of six hand-picked chapters that introduce the key technologies and concepts for building the application layer of the IoT.  The page is here: http://bit.ly/1SUJW0P

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WinOps conference

Posted on Friday 29 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

The WinOps conference is dedicated to ‘Windows in a DevOps World’  Its in London 24 May 2016. I’ll be speaking as will Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson of Microsoft. More details from http://winops.org/ Hope to see you there

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Windows Server 2016 TP5 Cumulative Update

Posted on Thursday 28 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

An update – KB 3157663 – should be installed BEFORE installing any roles, features or applications into a TP5 system. Finding the update isn’t easy – no links from the TP5 pages and doesn’t show in search on Bing or … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2016 TP5 now available

Posted on Wednesday 27 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

Microsoft have released Technology Preview 5 (TP5) of Server 2016 today. Its available from MSDN and the evaluations site Lots of new stuff to try out

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New variables with the variable cmdlets

Posted on Wednesday 27 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

  So you have some data in csv format: column1 column2 column3 column4——- ——- ——- ——-a1      b1      c1      d1a1      b2      c1      d1a1      b3      c1      d1a2      b3      c1      d1a2      b4      c1      d1a2      b3      c1      d1a3      b5      c1      d1a3      b6      c1      d1a3      … Continue reading →

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PowerShell team announcements

Posted on Tuesday 26 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

A few announcements from the PowerShell Team that I’m catching up on. The Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module is now open source https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/04/25/the-archive-module-is-now-open-source/ The archive module was introduced in WMF 5.0. Its now available on the PowerShell Gallery for installation on WMF 4.0. … Continue reading →

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PowerShell certifications revisited

Posted on Monday 25 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

Years ago (seems like decades so much has happened) I published my view on PowerShell certification: https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/powershell-certifications/ A recent comment on the post asked if I still felt the same way. Its not a topic I’d thought about all that … Continue reading →

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Cim session oddity

Posted on Monday 25 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

The CIM cmdlets were introduced with PowerShell 3.0.  You can use the –ComputerName parameter to access a remote machine or, if you need to run multiple commands to the remote machine, you can create a CIM session. CIM sessions are … Continue reading →

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Folder creation dates from WMI

Posted on Thursday 14 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

A question on the powershell.org about finding the creation date of folders raises some interesting points To find a folder’s creation date use: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Directory -Filter “Drive=’C:’ AND Path = ‘\\users\\$user\\’” | select Name, @{N=’Creation date’; E={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.CreationDate)}} OR Get-CimInstance … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Summit 2016 recordings

Posted on Thursday 14 April 2016 by richardsiddaway

The recordings from this years PowerShell Summit are now available: http://powershell.org/wp/2016/04/13/powershell-devops-global-summit-videos-online/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coc1Jn5hC4e_XgbFUaS5jY2i

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