Showing archive results for August 2015

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about verifying Windows PowerShell module manifests. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things that is cool about Windows PowerShell is that it is self-describing. I can type Get-Member or Get-Command and find out what a Windows PowerShell cmdlet is all about. Then there is Get...

Summary: Find your network adapters that are available.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which network adapters on my computer are up?  Use the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet and filter on the status, for example: (Get-NetAdapter).where{$_.status -eq 'up'} Note  This command works on Windows 8.1 and later.

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, shares a video he made that illustrates parsing NetStat with Windows PowerShell 5.0.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. For someone who loves working at the command line, the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet is awesome. I mean, I can do things in a single line of code that in the past, took 15 or 2...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find your current connection profile.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see what connection profile my computer is using?  Use the Get-NetConnectionProfile cmdlet.

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using Windows PowerShell 5.0 to create objects from strings in this video.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the great things about Windows PowerShell is that it is object-oriented. This means that I can easily pipe objects, sort objects, and compare objects.In Windows P...