Category Archives: .NET

Time oddity

Posted on Wednesday 7 August 2013 by richardsiddaway

I was looking for a test of time synchronisation on domain controllers and knew that the .NET domain controller object held a system property. So, I cam up with this $dom = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain()$dom.DomainControllers | Format-Table Name, CurrentTime What I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Set registry key owner

Posted on Friday 11 November 2011 by richardsiddaway

In chapter 7 of PowerShell and WMI I stated that I would post a .NET version of a script to set ownership of a registry key. The WMI method needs Vista or above so we need the .NET version for … Continue reading →

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Create a process on a remote machine

Posted on Sunday 21 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

We cam use the [wmiclass] to create a process but it doesn’t allow us to set the credentials. We can get round that by using a bit of .NET code. [wmiclass] is as accelerator for System.Management.ManagementClass so we go back … Continue reading →

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A count down timer

Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Last month I started playing with WPF to show how a multi-coloured clock could  be displayed on screen. This was picked up and an easier version was created by Doug Finke using the ShowUI module from codeplex  http://showui.codeplex.com/. Other links … Continue reading →

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Using enums

Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Following on my post about using enums http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/02/enums.aspx I thought it might be fun to see how we can make our own. If we look at Win32_LogicalDisk PS > Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk | ft DeviceID, DriveType -a DeviceID DriveType——– ———C:               3E:               … Continue reading →

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Enums

Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

No not something added to your food but .NET enumerations. These are collections of defined values such as the default folder names that we have seen in Outlook. An enumeration (to use the full name) looks a bit like a … Continue reading →

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