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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 ...