Monthly Archives: May 2018

Splitting into pairs

Posted on Thursday 31 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

During my session on scriptblocks at Summit 2018 I showed how to split a string into pairs of values Start with this string PS> $str = ‘Jack,Jill,Bill,Ben,Eric,Ernie,Cagney,Lacey’ You want the string split in the commas – but every other comma … Continue reading →

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Summit 2018 sessions

Posted on Thursday 31 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

The code and slides from my Summit 2018 sessions can be found at https://github.com/RichardSiddaway/Summit2018TroubleShootingRemoting and https://github.com/RichardSiddaway/Summit2018ScriptBlocksDecoded

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PowerShell functionality

Posted on Thursday 31 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell functionality – in the form of modules – comes from a number of different sources. These are: Powershell itself including the Microsoft.PowerShell.* modules and CIM cmdlets Windows Team – this includes the modules such as NetAdapter, NetTCPIP, Storage that … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V book

Posted on Monday 28 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

The Month of Lunches Hyper-V book I was working on was cancelled by the publisher. The good news is that it’s most likely going to be resurrected with another publisher and will hopefully be available later this year. More to … Continue reading →

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WMI and CIM accelerators

Posted on Saturday 26 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

In PowerShell an accelerator is a shortcut to a .NET type. The WMI accelerators have been around since PowerShell v1. The WMI accelerators were heavily used in v1 fill some of the gaps in cmdlet coverage. The CIM accelerators appeared … Continue reading →

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PowerShell parameter sets

Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell parameter sets allow you to control which parameters can be used together. If a parameter isn’t in the parameter set you’re trying to use you’ll get an error message. PS> Get-VM -Name XYZ -id (New-Guid) Get-VM : Parameter set … Continue reading →

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PowerShell version

Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

Discovering the PowerShell version you’re using can be an interesting task. The automatic variable $PSVersionTable was introduced in PowerShell v2.  On my Windows 10 version 1803 machine for Windows PowerShell I get PS> $PSVersionTable Name                           Value —-                           —– PSVersion                      5.1.17134.48 … Continue reading →

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Format Data

Posted on Friday 18 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell will format the output of objects that it knows about.  For instance Get-Process shows different sets of properties depending on whether  you choose a table or list view. The format data is stored in files named *.format.ps1xml. In Windows … Continue reading →

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where –not

Posted on Tuesday 15 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell v6.1 preview 2 has added the where –not option. The option adds another parameter to the syntax where-object <property name> <operator like parameter> <value> Couple of examples of using the syntax Get-Process | where CPU -gt 12 Get-Service | … Continue reading →

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Calculating standard deviation

Posted on Friday 11 May 2018 by richardsiddaway

Calculating a standard deviation isn’t a difficult exercise but PowerShell v6.1 offers an easier method. In Windows PowerShell v5.1 and PowerShell v6.0 the Measure-Object cmdlet has this syntax PS> Get-Command Measure-Object -Syntax Measure-Object [[-Property] <string[]>] [-InputObject <psobject>] [-Sum] [-Average] [-Maximum] … Continue reading →

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