Happy Holidays from SAPIEN Technologies! In celebration of the season, we’d like to offer you a special gift: A free sampler pack of Snippets to add into PrimalScript (or use independently, if you prefer – they’re just text files)! This 47-Snippet sampler pack includes snippets for VBScript, Windows PowerShell, KiXtart, and even HTAs, and normally retails for $50.00. But if …
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New Podcast Episode
A new episode of the ScriptingAnswers.com Audio Network is now online for your listening enjoyment – including the third installment of our new trivia challenge. Check it out!
More Holiday Freebies For You!
As if giving away Snippets wasn’t enough, we’re now offering you a free iPod Shuffle. All you have to do is pick up the world’s best script development environment: PrimalScript 4.1 Enterprise. Or, learn to use VBScript to automate Windows administration by buying the ScriptingAnswers.com University Full Set. Either way, a specially-engraved iPod Shuffle will be yours …
Remote Event Log Filtering
Recently I showed how to use Get-EventLog to filter for recent eventlogs. I like this cmdlet because the output is easy to read. One drawback is that you can’t use the cmdlet to query a remote system. Right now, Get-Wmiobject is one of the few cmdlets that allows you to connect to a remote system. Which is great because we can use WMI to query for Win32_NTLogEvents. One primary challenge here is converting date time into a WMI recognized format.
PowerShell Event Log Filtering
I recently helped a fellow scripting admin with a PowerShell problem in the ScriptingAnswers.com PowerShell forum. He wanted to get Errors and Warnings that had happened in the last 30 minutes. Using the Get-EventLog cmdlet would seem like the write solution but it takes a little wrangling to get the information you want.
Comparing Apples to Oranges
I’ve spent some time lately exploring searching and replacing techniques in a variety of scripting languages. I hope to share some of these experiences later. Right now I wanted to briefly share a tip when searching for text using VBScript. This is a common task and one that causes many novice scripters more than a little grief.
The Subtle Function
Time for my big epiphany of the week: Why PowerShell functions are so gosh-darned weird. Here?s the deal: Normally, in most programming languages, in order to return a value form a function you have to use a special value. Like, ?Return.? Consider the following example: Function MyFunction() { $f = 1 Return $f} In fact, this is […]
Don’t miss the Microsoft PowerShell Contest
Time is running out to enter the Microsoft PowerShell contest. Deadline for script submissions in December 15, 2006. You can win some pretty great prizes
PowerShell Timestamps and Transcripts
Earlier this week I showed you how to use PowerShell transcripts. I realized it might be nice to have a log file with a timestamp in the name. You may decide, or be required for auditing purposes, to have a transcript of every PowerShell session saved to a logfile with a timestamp as part of the filename.
Don Jones’ new PowerShell column is online!
As posted previously, Don Jones is now exclusive to Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and the first of his new Windows PowerShell columns is now online and in print. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/, scroll down to the “Columns” section, and look for Don’s name. New columns will be available each month.
Don’t forget that SAPIEN’s Jeffery Hicks is also in print: He now …
