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This afternoon I received the email notifying me that my MVP award had been renewed for another year. Thank you to Microsoft ““ I regard the award as a great honour. And thank you to the PowerShell community ““ its a great place to be
PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I"™ll have several machines running but won"™t necessarily have logged onto them. Using Stop-Computer means that I can shut them down cleanly …
The CIM cmdlets are found in the CIMcmdlets module. Get-Command -Module CimCmdlets produces this list of names. I"™ve added some information on the tasks they perform Get-CimAssociatedInstance is for working with WMI associated classes Get-CimClass is for discovering the properties and methods …
An email debate yesterday regarding the use of the CIM cmdlets (new in PowerShell 3) vs the WMI cmdlets made me realise that other people are probably wondering the same thing, The question is really part of a the semi-philosophical debate about when you should adopt new technology. In the case of …
I"™m postponing the 26 March session on PowerShell and Hyper-V until 9 April. Invites will go out shortly
A sample pack for the SDK is now available - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx
Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name InterfaceDescription Status —- ——————– —— Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Up WiFi Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter Up If you look …
John Mello gave a brief overview of the history of the Scripting Games and an overview of the beginner events from the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp. A copy of his presentation and 2013 Winter Scripting Camp submissions can be found here. Lido Paglia gave an overview of the advanced events from the …
I know, this took forever. Mea culpa. I’ve been working my shell off, and finally got around to pulling the info. Beginner Track Wouter Beens (4.667) Laurel Raven (4.5) Chris Davis (4.5) Advanced Track Alexander Kuzin (4.5) Lido Paglia (4.5) (anonymous) (4) Those are the average scores from …
This is a PowerShell-based WMI Explorer tool created by Marc van Orsouw (aka //\O//). His Web site has been down for ages, but Thomas Lee was helpful enough to post a copy of this, and we’re hosting it here as a backup against further unavailability. Download WMI Explorer
