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March 24, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Books and Training, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Registration for Intermediate PowerShell Ends soon

I’m in the middle of running our online PowerShell Fundamentals class. The Intermediate class starts April 6. Registration ends on March 30th, or until the class fills up. Class size is limited. You can register for the class at ScriptingOutpost.com.

This course covers intermediate topics such as error handling, debugging, regular expressions, advanced modularization techniques, advanced object manipulation, and much more. You’ll be a more refined and efficient administrator by leveraging more of PowerShell’s flexible and powerful capabilities.

March 20, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / General, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Status Indicators with PowerShell and PolyMonRT

In my last Mr. Roboto column, I wrote about the open source project, PolyMonRT. I recently suggested it to someone as a solution, especially because PolyMonRT supports PowerShell as a provider. My friend wanted to use the status light indicator to show when a particular service was running or not. Basically Green is good and Red is not. It tool a little fiddling on my part but I came up with the process.

March 19, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / 2 Comments

Get Network Connections

I love that part of my job is helping people out in the forums as ScriptingAnswers.com. A recent post asked about finding out what network drives were mapped on a remote computer using PowerShell. The task sounded familiar so I poked around my script pile and found an old VBScript that used WMI and the Win32_NetworkConnection class. Great. Get-WMIObject to the rescue:

Get-WMIObject win32_networkconnection -computername Desk23

You even get a nicely formatted summary. But you me, I can’t resist tinkering so I wrote a function that enhances this basic command I call Get-NetConnection

March 16, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / 1 Comment

Show-CSpace

My latest Prof. PowerShell column has a function that takes a computername as pipelined input. It then returns a custom object showing free space on drive C:\. The point of the column was to demonstrate how to make a function behave like a cmdlet and take pipelined input so it’s not necessarily the most glamorous function I’ve ever written.

Anyway, the function got mangled in formatting for the web. This is what it should be…

March 12, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Howto, Windows PowerShell / 2 Comments

Create A Remote File Share

This topic came up recently in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com and I thought you might find it helpful. The issue was creating a file share remotely. In the “olden days”, this would have meant using a command line tool like RMTSHARE, which is really just fine. But if you have a larger workflow, doing it natively in PowerShell may be more desirable.

Let me show you how easy it is to create a file share using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). I wrote a function called New-FileShare.

March 5, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Folder Usage Function

A few days ago I went over the PowerShell oneliner from SAPIEN’s March ’09 newsletter. I suggested using it in a scriptblock to save typing. Another possibility is to turn it into a function. Even better would be a function that accepts pipelined input. This would permit me to pipe in a list of folder names and get a usage object for each one. Here’s how it works.

March 3, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / 2 Comments

March PowerShell Oneliner

In this month’s SAPIEN newsletter I offered a PowerShell oneliner to returns usage information for a specified folder. I don’t have room in the newsletter to go into detail so here is more in-depth coverage of this oneliner. I’ll also have a downlink link at the end.

March 2, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / 4 Comments

Parse HOSTS file with PowerShell

In a recent discussion in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com, a member was trying to parse the HOSTS file on a number of desktops. This is a thankless but probably useful task that seems perfectly suited to a scripted solution. What we came up with was a way to turn entries in the HOSTS file to objects in PowerShell. Once we have an object then we can do all sorts of fun things with it. Here is an enhanced version of the original solution.

February 26, 2009 / by David Corrales / Free Tools, PrimalTools, Software News, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

PrimalForms – File Dialog Hangs on Windows Vista SP1 with .Net 3.0 /3.5

Some of our PrimalForms users may have encountered issues with the OpenFileDialog or SaveFileDialog running under Windows Vista. The bad news is that scripts which include OpenFileDialogs or SaveFileDialogs and that previously worked on Windows XP may encounter freezing issues on Vista SP1 systems with .Net 3.0/3.5. The affected scripts will hang when PowerShell executes […]

February 24, 2009 / by Jeffery Hicks / Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Updated Out-Twitter PowerShell Script

Thanks to Christian Glessner for letting me know of a change to the Twitter API. This necessitated a change in my Out-Twitter script. There’s been a lot of movement in the PowerShell world with Twitter these days. Be sure to check out the PowerShell tags at TweeterTags and a growing list of PowerShell Twitterers. Even […]

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Registration for Intermediate PowerShell Ends soon

Status Indicators with PowerShell and PolyMonRT

Get Network Connections

Show-CSpace

Folder Usage Function

March PowerShell Oneliner

Parse HOSTS file with PowerShell

PrimalForms – File Dialog Hangs on Windows Vista SP1 with .Net 3.0 /3.5

Updated Out-Twitter PowerShell Script

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