Category Archives: PowerShell V2

PowerShell v2

Posted on Tuesday 13 August 2019 by richardsiddaway

Just seen a question about PowerShell v2. PowerShell v2 was a huge step forward when it appeared in October 2009 as part of Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 support finishes 14 January 2020 Windows Server 2008 R2 … Continue reading →

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Further information on PowerShell 2.0 deprecation

Posted on Friday 25 August 2017 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell team have provided further information about the deprecation of PowerShell 2.0 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/08/24/windows-powershell-2-0-deprecation/ One point that didn’t come out is that if you remove PowerShell 2.0 your CIM sessions can all run over WS-MAN. DCOM isn’t required any more … Continue reading →

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PowerShell 2.0 to be deprecated in Windows 10

Posted on Monday 21 August 2017 by richardsiddaway

You’ve been able to install the PowerShell 2.0 engine side by side with the latest version of PowerShell for the last few versions of PowerShell. Not any more. PowerShell 2.0 to be deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators update later … Continue reading →

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PowerShell 2.0 Engine removed from Server 2016

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2016 by richardsiddaway

I hadn’t realised that the PowerShell 2.0 engine had been removed from Windows Server 2016 TP5 PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WindowsFeature  PowerShell-V2 | ft -a Display Name                          Name          Install State ————                          —-          ————- [ ] Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine PowerShell-V2       Removed Probably … Continue reading →

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Getting mailbox data and stats per database

Posted on Tuesday 8 April 2014 by richardsiddaway

Way back in the day – https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/list-mailboxes-by-mailbox-database/ – I showed how to list mailboxes by the database in which they were stored.  I had a comment left asking if its possible to list only a specific mailbox and to give … Continue reading →

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End of PowerShell Jobs week

Posted on Sunday 9 March 2014 by richardsiddaway

My series on PowerShell Jobs for the Scripting Guy blog has finished.  The set of articles is: Jobs week 1 : Introduction to PowerShell jobshttp://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/02/powershell-jobs-week-introduction-to-powershell-jobs.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/02/powertip-control-job-starts-with-powershell.aspx Jobs week 2 : WMi and CIM jobshttp://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/03/powershell-jobs-week-wmi-and-cim-jobs.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/03/powertip-use-powershell-to-keep-job-data.aspx  Jobs week 3 : Remote Jobshttp://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/04/powershell-jobs-week-remote-jobs.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/03/04/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-job-help.aspx  Jobs … Continue reading →

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It’s the little things

Posted on Thursday 29 August 2013 by richardsiddaway

I’ve been spending some quality time with PowerShell 2.0 recently. When it was all we had it was great but there’s a bunch of things I miss from PowerShell 3.0 including: CIM cmdlets CIM sessions Workflows Module auto loading Improved … Continue reading →

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Creating DNS PTR records

Posted on Saturday 8 June 2013 by richardsiddaway

When I was writing the DNS chapter of PowerShell in Practice I couldn’t get the CreateInstanceFromPropertyData  method on the MicrosoftDNS_PTRType  class to work. Revisiting DNS for AD management in a Month of lunches this time round I have access to … Continue reading →

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Displaying data from multiple servers as HTML

Posted on Thursday 3 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting.  I would approach it like this $servers = Get-Content -Path C:\scripts\servers.txt $data = @() foreach ($server in $servers){ $compdata = New-Object -TypeName … Continue reading →

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Ensuring that parameter values are passed to your function

Posted on Thursday 3 January 2013 by richardsiddaway

A question on the forum about a function had me thinking. The user had defined two parameters for the function and then used Read-Host to get the values. NO Much better way is to use an advanced function and make … Continue reading →

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