August 2009 | PowerShell

Exploring WMI with PowerShell V2

PowerShell TeamAugust 30, 2009Aug 30, 200908/30/09

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 ...

PowerShell Interview

PowerShell TeamAugust 30, 2009Aug 30, 200908/30/09

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 ...

PoshComm has a new sponsor – Please welcome Pragma Systems

PowerShell TeamAugust 28, 2009Aug 28, 200908/28/09

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 ...

Plus (+) in .NET Class Names

PowerShell TeamAugust 26, 2009Aug 26, 200908/26/09

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 ...

Powershell 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 – Release Candidate

PowerShell TeamAugust 13, 2009Aug 13, 200908/13/09

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&...

Get-SystemUptime and Working with the WMI Date Format

PowerShell TeamAugust 12, 2009Aug 12, 200908/12/09

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 ...

Summer Scripting Games 2009 : Wrap-Up

PowerShell TeamAugust 11, 2009Aug 11, 200908/11/09

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 ...

PrimalForms 2009 – From SAPIEN

PowerShell TeamAugust 3, 2009Aug 3, 200908/3/09

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...

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