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Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs

April 4, 2011 Apr 4, 2011 04/4/11
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A couple of months ago I had asked the PowerShell MVPs for suggestions on blog topics. Karl Prosser, one of our awesome MVPs, brought up the topic of scaling and queuing background jobs.The scenario is familiar: You have a file containing a bunch of input that you want to process and you don’t want to overburden your computer by ...

Windows Event Log in PowerShell – Part II

June 11, 2009 Jun 11, 2009 06/11/09
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In part 1 of “Event logs in Powershell” we talked about differences between Get-EventLog and Get-WinEvent. In this second part we will dig deeper into Get-WinEvent.  Starting in Windows Vista, the Windows Event Log was updated to provide a more powerful event model which allows for events to be easily categorized into logs and ...

Processing Event Logs in PowerShell

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09
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PowerShell V2 ships with two sets of cmdlets for processing event logs, one is *-EventLog set and other is Get-WinEvent.  Reading Events:As you can see there are two cmdlets to GET events from event logs , Get-WinEvent and Get-EventLog. Having two cmdlets to do the same thing seems to be counter-intuitive and I will explain the ...