This is the first post in a blog series about working with remote systems using PowerShell Studio. The following topics are covered: Part 1 – Caching Remote Systems PowerShell Modules Part 2 – PowerShell remoting In this first installment I will show you how to use SAPIEN Technologies’ Cache Export tool to collect module information […]
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Where are v3 and v4? PowerShell Versions in PowerShell Studio
In this post, we explain why PowerShell Studio can run your scripts only the versions of Windows PowerShell that are installed on local and remote computers. If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you’ll notice quickly that you now have Windows PowerShell 5.0. Depending on your upgrade path and […]
WMI Explorer 2014: Connect to remote computers.
As promised here are some more details on the new version of the WMI Explorer. One of the main flaws of the old versions was that it only worked on the current machine. With the 2014 version you can connect to any other computer in your network. Of course you will have to make sure […]
But it works on my machine…
We have all heard that phrase. We have all faced that scenario. A script runs perfectly fine on your machine or any VM you have, but just refuses to do anything useful on that one server where it really matters. Error messages can be notoriously unhelpful. “Access denied”, yes, but to WHAT and WHY? And […]
Feature Peek 2011: Bridging the gap, Part 2
"Can I ask you a quick question?" This usually precede a long interruption in whatever work you are doing at the time. It doesn’t matter if someone sticks their head into your cubicle while uttering these infamous words or if they pop up on an instant messenger window, inevitably you are expected to drop whatever […]
Registry access from 32 to 64 bit and back
Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task the individual was facing was to come up with a way to verify installed applications via checking the corresponding Windows Installer registry entries. For a C++ programmer with access to […]
Read Remote Registry Function
Hopefully you found my last entry valuable. But I always like to take things a step further, especially when it comes to scripting and automation. So I turned my last script into a function that returns the value of a specified registry key
Remote Registry Reading the VBScript Way
Last week I blogged about using REG.EXE in a batch file to read a registry key. The batch file I provided works, but the output is limited. You could probably parse it a bit more to get it in some other format. But I’d probably turn to VBScript and WMI if I wanted better output control or if I had more complicated needs.
Got-PowerShell Revisited
Last week I showed a PowerShell function that used WMI to remotely query a machine to determine if PowerShell was installed. Well, like most things Microsoft there’s often more than one way to accomplish a task. Here is a different version of essentially the same function. This version, however, uses the .NET framework and the Microsoft.Win32.Registry class.
