Showing archive results for November 2013

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to create capacity planning reports.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting learning Windows PowerShell, and I understand how to use it as a scripting language and shell. I’ve been told to start performing capacity planning for my servers and was wondering how I can us...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to debug a script on a remote computer.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to debug a script on a remote computer? Use the debugging features in the Windows PowerShell 4.0 console:1. Use Enter-PSSession to start an interactive session on the remote computer:PS C: > Enter-PSSession -ComputerName ...

Summary: Learn about remote debugging support in Windows PowerShell 4.0. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a guest blog written by Paul Higinbotham who is a software design engineer on the Windows PowerShell team… Windows PowerShell 4.0 includes two major enhancements to the script debugger: script debuggin...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to copy all profiles from a local computer to SkyDrive.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to copy all of the profiles from my local computer to SkyDrive?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet. This works only if you have SkyDrive set up and available to the local computer: Get-ChildItem $pshome\*profile.p...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find hotfixes installed on your computer.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see hotfixes that were installed on my computer after November 1, 2013?  Use the Get-Hotfix cmdlet, pipe the results to Where-Object, and then filter on the date: Get-HotFix | where InstalledOn -ge ([datetime]"1...