Geek School: Learning PowerShell Variables, Input and Output
As we move away from simply running commands and move into writing full blown scripts, you will need a temporary place to store data. This is where variables come in.Read More
View ArticleWorking with the new $PSItem automatic variable in Windows PowerShell 3.0
Windows PowerShell has become a key skillset for IT Professionals, as we can see based on the massive amount of PowerShell support in the latest release of the Windows operating system. In this...
View ArticleMy First Experience w/ PowerShell 3.0
You are all lucky enough to read about my first experiences with PowerShell! For those of you that do not know, PowerShell is a scripting language; which is used for creating temporary fixes and to...
View ArticleNew Features in Windows PowerShell 4.0
Find out what’s new in the new upcoming release of Windows PowerShell at this Technet page.Read More
View ArticleWindows PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager Quick Reference Guides Released
The PowerShell Language Reference is four-pages, while the rest are two-pages long, giving readers a condensed version of each topic, good for viewing on a mobile device like a Windows 8 tablet.Read More
View ArticlePowerShell help RSS feed
The updatable help in PowerShell 3.0 caused a lot of confusion when that version first shipped. The help files have been updated periodically since 3.o shipped but its always been difficult finding out...
View ArticleAdvanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0
After the Getting started with PowerShell 3.0 event on Microsoft Virtual Academy, Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick are back with another full day PowerShell training event. This time around, they will...
View ArticleHelp with a powershell script to use a parameter to manipulate/read in fields...
Hi Guys, I am powershell novice so asking for assistance for what is to me a difficult problem but hopefully a quite easy solution to PS experts!!. I have and existing powershell script (not written...
View Articlewindows 2012 & PowerShell commands
I was told in June while waiting in line at TechEd that when you execute a command in windows 2012 it is stored in a PowerShell format somewhere in a directory. Does anyone know where this folder...
View ArticleFunction for CRC32.
Hi,Could any one post a function which generates a Hexa Decimal CRC32 value for a file using powershell.
View ArticleAccessing Oracle Database 11g with Powershell
Hi there Has anyone any experience with accessing a oracle 11g database in powershell? Is there a module which can be downloaded in order to access a oracle database. I want to extract data from a...
View ArticlePowerShell v3.0 HTML Parsing
I'm trying to build a new object with properties from this webpage:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/(Heart of the Swarm)Ultimately I would like something like the following for every unit:unit...
View ArticleHelp with getting date of last Windows Update from a list of several computers?
I have a txt file with a list of a jillion or so computers. What I'm trying to do is simply get the date of the last time Windows Update was run on each machine, so 1 line per machine.I started out...
View Articlequotes within quotes witha variable.
Hi allI am having an issue where i need to add " within an output this is due to spaces in the names. If i do not add the " i get what i need but since there are spaces in the names this will fail here...
View ArticleXenapp application
Can powershell show how many users are using applications in a xenapp farmLike Outlook 3Excel 22
View ArticleHow to get a parmeter name and type for any command/Script
Hi,we have a requirement to fetch all the parameters for any powershell command/script using c#. Can you please help me to find the soultion for the same. Thanks,Srikanth
View ArticleConvulated PS script to do various processes - variable assignments failing
Variables:$strcomputer = "hfsat098123456"I test the computer name for three different contents:If $strcomputer -contains "hfsfs"If $strcomputer -contains "hfsca" or "hfsat"(or everything else)Based on...
View ArticleHow to find nth word in a line or string?
I have bunch of log files and want to extract certain words out of them, so they can be formatted into a summarized table. They are all similar enough to be able to know which word in a line that I...
View ArticleScript Scheduling error
I have a script with I use to create a excel file, I can run the script in server without any issue it creates the result file. But when I schedule the script, it’s not working.. I get the following...
View ArticleSetting a maximum depth level on -recurse
Hello All,Is there a simply way to set a maximum number of levels -resurse will go to down a directory structure i.e. say 5 levels when doing something like thisget-childitem c:\ -filter "*.exe"...
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