Monthly Archives: June 2016

Wireless on Windows 2016 TP5

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

Windows Server 2016 TP5 which appeared at the end of April has a major flaw. It doesn’t work with wireless cards! I use a relatively high-spec laptop as my lab machine. Not being able to get the wireless card working … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up entries on Remote Desktop Connection

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

I use RDP between my main laptop and the machine on which my lab resides. When I rebuild the lab the entries in the Remote Desktop Connection for the old machine still remain. There isn’t a direct way to remove … Continue reading →

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Boolean in Where-Object filter

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

I was testing some code yesterday and realised there was a quirk in the way the original where syntax (with {}) worked and the way the newer syntax worked. To demonstrate this I created a set of objects $i = … Continue reading →

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Still asking for topics

Posted on Tuesday 28 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

Earlier in the month I posted a request for topics on powershell.org https://powershell.org/request-for-topics/ This is a request for YOU to tell us what topics you would like to see at the next PowerShell & DevOps Summit We’ve had a handful … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Summit & Conference videos 2016

Posted on Monday 27 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

  If you didn’t get to any of these conferences this year the videos are now available. PowerShell and DevOps Summit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coc1Jn5hC4e_XgbFUaS5jY2i   European PowerShell Conference https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgrI58XiKnDDByjhRJs5fg You might find this interesting as well. WinOps conference https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1OgsLk-HkEdQyhjJX_5JQ

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Too many Windows 10 releases????????

Posted on Sunday 26 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

The last couple of days have seen some incredibly stupid headlines but one that caught my eye was someone from the “computer press” whining that there are too many releases of Windows 10. Unbelievable What part of the Windows Insider … Continue reading →

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Parallel processing

Posted on Saturday 25 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

One of the great features PowerShell brings is the ability to remotely administer your servers. Most people begin remote administration by processing the servers sequentially. Eventually, this process breaks down because you have too many servers and/or the processes you … Continue reading →

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Months

Posted on Sunday 12 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

It would be nice to be able to do this: PS>  Get-Date -Day 25 -Month December -Year 2016Get-Date : Cannot bind parameter ‘Month’. Cannot convert value “December” to type “System.Int32”.Error: “Input string was not in a correct format.”At line:1 char:25+ … Continue reading →

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WMI classes and Storage cmdlets

Posted on Saturday 11 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

There is a hierarchy of objects to work through when dealing with disks First you have the physical disk PS>  Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_DiskDrive | fl Partitions : 5DeviceID   : \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0Model      : HFS256G3AMNB-2200ASize       : 256052966400Caption    : HFS256G3AMNB-2200A A physical disk can … Continue reading →

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WMI Filters

Posted on Friday 10 June 2016 by richardsiddaway

A common mistake with WMI/CIM filters is: PS>  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter “DeviceId=C:”Get-WmiObject : Invalid query “select * from Win32_LogicalDisk where DeviceId=C:”At line:1 char:1+ Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter “DeviceId=C:”+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : … Continue reading →

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