Monthly Archives: December 2017

PowerShell in 2018

Posted on Sunday 31 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

So what is going to happen for PowerShell in 2018? In April we have the Summit. Our biggest ever Summit with many more speakers, more sessions and new things including Iron Scripter. We’ll be starting the build up in early … Continue reading →

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Cross platform PowerShell remoting

Posted on Saturday 30 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

An interesting article on the Scripting Guy blog – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2017/12/29/cross-platform-powershell-remoting-in-action/ discusses using SSH remoting in PowerShell v6. Some of the code needs tightening up but its a good first step for combining v6 and v5.1

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2017 – a year of PowerShell

Posted on Thursday 28 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

This is a good time to review what happened in the PowerShell community in 2017. It’s my perspective so is obviously biased based on my experiences. The 2017 PowerShell Summit was an early highlight of the year. We sold out … Continue reading →

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Windows Updates CIM classes

Posted on Thursday 21 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

When Windows 10 and Server 2016 were released they contained a new CIM namespace – ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate This contained a CIM class MSFT_WUOperationsSession that had 2 very useful methods – ScanForUpdates and  ApplyApplicableUpdates. These methods enabled you to find and install … Continue reading →

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Test-Path -PathType

Posted on Tuesday 19 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

Test-Path is a useful cmdlet for testing the validity of a path. You get a True/False return depending on if the path exists or not. There’s also a way to add to the test by determining if the path points … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v6: #9 Release candidate 2 features

Posted on Saturday 16 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

A couple of features of PowerShell v6 release candidate 2 need commenting on. Firstly, I was surprised when installing RC 2 on a Windows 10 machine (Insider build) that RC1 was removed. In the past you’ve been able to run … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v6: #8 Release candidate 2

Posted on Friday 15 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

Release candidate 2 for PowerShell v6 is available for download from – https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases One worrying point is the the OpenSSH implementation which is required for remoting to and from Linux systems doesn’t appear to be any where near a release … Continue reading →

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Using the Where method

Posted on Wednesday 13 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

You don’t usually see people using the where method. A recent question on the forums highlighted using the where method. PowerShell deals in collections and will automatically create a collection of objects if the are multiple objects returned for instance … Continue reading →

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Avoid the truncation in the display

Posted on Sunday 10 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

A question came up regarding my recent post about using the file system COM object to get folder sizes. The question was about the folder path and how you could see the whole path. In other words how to avoid … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v6: #7 Module paths

Posted on Wednesday 6 December 2017 by richardsiddaway

There is a very significant gap between the functionality available in PowerShell v6 as opposed to PowerShell v5.1. In part this is due to the underlying version of .NET but mainly to the defined module paths in the two versions. … Continue reading →

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