I was messing around with my son’s computer today trying to figure out why one of his programs wouldn’t work. I was going to use ProcMon to monitor the processes but wasn’t sure what the processes where. So first I had to figure out what processes were getting started when I ran his program. I guessed that there was a WMI ...
I recently did a pretty wide ranging interview for TechNet with Osama Sajid. They broke it up into 3 sections. You can find the first section (along with pointers to the others) HERE. In part 3 I talk about the idea of Integrated Lifetime Earnings and how this is affected by PowerShell. I think this is a pretty important ...
PowerShellCommunity.org has announced that they have a got a new sponsor, Pragma Systems. SSH and Telnet folks know Pragma very well. For Powershell users they provide the capability to access Windows PowerShell from any client that runs a ssh or telnet client. More details of Pragma's Powershell support can be seen here. They would ...
On one of our internal discussion aliases, someone asked why do we need a plus (+) the class name for FTP? Typically, you would expect this to work [Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp], but it doesn’t. The solution is [Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp] and it has something to do with nested classes In C#, a nested class looks something like public class List{&...
Announcing the public release of Microsoft Windows Management Framework RC for Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 and SP2. This RC includes release notes and the following components: · Windows PowerShell 2.0 · WinRM ...
I just got a quick ping from someone at work for an uptime script. I checked in WMI with by using Search-WmiHelp to find a wmi class that had an uptime property (Win32_OperatingSystem has LastBootUpTime). While I had found the uptime property I needed, I was left with another pretty common problem that people hit (in VBScript and in ...
Scripting Guys have posted a wrap-up to the Summer Scripting Games.. they will be taking the winner scripts one by one and explain it in detail. See it here Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manager ...
SAPIEN Technologies ,makers of PrimalScripts have added another cool product for Windows PowerShell users - PrimalForms. Check it out http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manager...
