Don Jones, of ScriptingAnswers.com, is holding two two-day classes on Windows administrative scripting in Chicago and Seattle this September. While the first day of each class will focus on advanced VBScript techniques, the second day will be entirely devoted to Windows PowerShell. No prior PowerShell experience is necessary—Don plans to start ...
Updated Aug. 5th, 2006: The Microsoft security folks have finished their full technical analysis of the worm. You can read their analysis in the Malicious Software Encyclopedia. A “PowerShell Worm” has recently been reported by several antivirus companies and some news organizations. There has been some confusion and concern ...
Joel Spolsky of Joel-On-Software fame, just posted a blog, "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html In this article, he drives home the point that when it comes to code: Maintainability, Readability, Abstraction == Good! He then points out how languages can help or hinder this and goes on to...
ScriptCenter has a very good article exploring the use of Windows PowerShell to analyze your eventlogs. Check it out at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/get-eventlog.mspx PSMDTAG:CMDLET: Get-EventLog PSMDTAG:FAQ: EventLog - How do I find out what event logs exist? ANSWER: Get-EventLog -list PSMDTAG:...
Scott Hanselman is a superstar presenter. Here is a link to a video of presentation he gave to the Beantown.net users group in boston that focused on Windows PowerShell. Even if you are a longtime PowerShell user, I encourage you to watch this because Scott provides some great ways to think about things. http://www.wrox.com/...
One of the primary goals of Windows PowerShell is to encode operations knowledge. Consider the example of finding out what domain role a computer plays. If you look at the WMI class WIN32_COMPUTERSYSTEM, you'll see that it tells you this information: PS> Get-WMiObject Win32_computerSystem |fl dom*Domain &...
