Automating the world one-liner at a time…
June 29, 2006Jun 29, 200606/29/06<edited 7/2/2006 to add categories and PSMDTAGs>
Windows PowerShell allows you to program against COM automation. The typical way to do this is :
$x = new-ojbect -ComObject <PROGID>
The question then is, how do I know what progids I can use.
June 26, 2006Jun 26, 200606/26/06<Edited 7/2/2006 to add categories and tags>
In the previous entry, it showed how you could use the static method GetHostAddresses of the [System.Net.Dns] class to resolve a hostname. This begs the question, how do you find the static methods of a class.
June 26, 2006Jun 26, 200606/26/06<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and category>Wei Wu provided a nice one liner in response to a query in our NewsGroup: Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell about how to resolve a hostname into an IP Address:
PS> [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses(“www.msn.com“)
IPAddressToString : 207.68.173.76Address : 1286423759AddressFamily : InterNetworkScopeId
June 25, 2006Jun 25, 200606/25/06<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and categories>We have recently completed work on improved support for WMI including:
Improved Adapters for WMI objects and classes
Most notably the ability to easily invoke methods on both
Direct language support for WMI
Type accelerators for [WMI],
June 24, 2006Jun 24, 200606/24/06<Edited to add categories>In our active, responsive, and useful newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell (SELL SELL SELL 🙂 ), MVP Alex Angelopoulos recented posted the following:
Although file extension changing is a common technique in administrative tasks, the System.IO.FileInfo class does not provide a direct Basename property and neither does PowerShell.
June 24, 2006Jun 24, 200606/24/06MOW is now posting the details of his Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell demo that he performed at my TechEd talk. This is worthwhile for everyone to review. For the people at the talk, we covered a huge amount of data in a very short time so it would be worth while to walk through the details.
June 23, 2006Jun 23, 200606/23/06dir | where {$_.PsIsContainer}
Alternatively you could:
dir |where {$_.mode -match “d”}
Jeffrey SnoverWindows PowerShell Architect
June 23, 2006Jun 23, 200606/23/06Over the course of time, I’ve written a number of functions & cmdlets and then created aliases for those. Many of those where Ad Hoc and I’ve since thrown them away but I still have the aliases sticking around. Here is a quick and easy way to determine the validity of your aliases
gal |%{if (!(gcm $_.Definition -ea SilentlyContinue)) {$_}}
Enjoy!Jeffrey SnoverWindows PowerShell Architect
PSMDTAG:ENVIRONMENT: cleaning up Aliases
June 23, 2006Jun 23, 200606/23/06After just a little use of Windows PowerShell, you quickly learn that you need to pipe objects in the GET-MEMBER utility to understand the capabilities of that object. Get-Member reflects against the object and shows you all of its methods and properties (more as well but that will be a different blog).
June 23, 2006Jun 23, 200606/23/06I have recently noticed that a number of people have missed the fact that we have a Windows PowerShell Documenation Download (for RC1) at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2B0BBFCD-0797-4083-A817-5E6A054A85C9&displaylang=en
Everyone should download this document and give it a read. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how valuable it is.
