Category Archives: PSAM

PAM release February 2012

Posted on Sunday 5 February 2012 by richardsiddaway

I have added another module to the PowerShell Admin Modules – http://psam.codeplex.com/   Release 0.7 adds a PAMHostsFile module with the following members add-hostfilecontent add-IPv6hostfilecontent clear-hostfilecontent get-hostfilecontent remove-hostfilecontent   A release notes document is also available which includes a listing … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Admin Modules

Posted on Monday 1 August 2011 by richardsiddaway

Just been checking the stats on the PowerShell Admin Modules – http://psam.codeplex.com/ – and this month its reached over 1000 downloads. I have a couple of updates in the pipeline that should be available soon.

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Scripting Guy discusses PAM modules

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

My codeplex project publishing PowerShell Admin Modules (PAM) is discussed in this post http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/06/29/don-t-write-wmi-scripts-use-a-powershell-module.aspx In particular the Get-OSInfo function from the PAMSysInfo module is heavily featured

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Powers

Posted on Friday 3 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Many numbers in computing are based on powers of 2. I need to calculate some powers of 2 and realised that PowerShell doesn’t have  an operator for raising  a number  to a power.  In many languages ** or ^ supply … Continue reading →

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New PAM version

Posted on Sunday 22 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

I’ve added the 0.6 release of the PowerShell Admin Modules to codeplex – http://psam.codeplex.com/ This release adds two modules PAMADSNAPSHOT – functions for work with AD snapshots in Windows 2008 & 2008 R2 PAMLOAD – loads all of the PAM … Continue reading →

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Some Questions about your code

Posted on Friday 6 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

I had this comment left on my blog related to a tweet announcing the availability of the 0.5 version of PowerShell Admin Modules. It raises a few interesting questions so I decided to reproduce it in full.  Thanks to Thomas … Continue reading →

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PAM 0.5

Posted on Thursday 5 May 2011 by richardsiddaway

Just released PowerShell Admin Modules (PAM) 0.5.  This adds the PAMStability module for working with stability and reliability metrics on Windows 7 and 2008 R2. The following 2 functions are available: get-stabilityindexget-reliabilityrecords see http://psam.codeplex.com/

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PAM 0.4

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2010 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell Admin Modules 0.4 is now available.  This adds a PAMSysInfo module to the download that includes the following functions: Get-BIOSInfoGet-BusGet-CDROMGet-ComputerSystemGet-CPUGet-MemIrqGet-OSInfoGet-PageFileGet-SystemGet-TimeZone Get-SystemInfo is a top level function that calls the others for a full system information dump.  All functions take … Continue reading →

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PAM 0.3

Posted on Sunday 14 November 2010 by richardsiddaway

I’ve added another module to the PSAM project on codeplex. Version 0.3 now has: PAMShares – for working with sharesPAMMath – for working with binary and hexPAMEnv – for working with environmental variables The modules can be downloaded from http://psam.codeplex.com/ … Continue reading →

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