Get to know PowerShell 3.0 with Jeffery Hicks
On May 22nd, 2013, MVP Systems Software is hosting a free webinar on introduction to PowerShell 3.0. PowerShell MVP and a well known author Jeffery Hicks will be presenting this. Here is an abstract of what you can expect from the event. PowerShell 3.0 continues to build on the solid foundation of PowerShell 2.0. Today, IT Pros have a set of even more powerful tools to add to...
PowerShell Summit 2013 session recordings
Haven’t had the chance to attend the PowerShell Summit? You can now watch the recordings on YouTube thanks to Aaron Hoover, one of the great PowerShell enthusiasts who attended this successful PowerShell event. Alan Renouf – Creating a Complex and Reusable HTML Reporting Structure Alan Renouf – Practical PowerShell Integration from Bare Metal to the Cloud Aleksandar...
New PowerShell Book: PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
Packt Publishing has released a new book on Windows PowerShell “PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook“. This book was authored by PowerShell MVPs Sherif Talaat and Haijun Fu. Here is an overview of the contents of this book: Discover and understand the concept of Windows PowerShell 3.0 Learn the advanced topics and techniques for a professional PowerShell...
2013 PowerShell Scripting Games
Mark your calendars. Registrations for the 2013 Scripting Games begin on April 22. To get a better understanding of how the games work this year (hosted on PowerShell.org), start by reading the 2013 Competitor’s Guide. If you plan to participate in the games, make sure to read the Instructions for Competitors and Spectators as well. The script submissions will be commentated this...
PowerGUI Script Editor gets full support for PowerShell 3.0
Dell released PowerGUI 3.6.0 script editor early this week. With this release, PowerGUI includes full support for Windows PowerShell 3.0 and support for Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Operating Systems. You can download this new release on PowerGUI.org. A complete list of changes since the release of PowerGUI 3.0 are available here.
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#PSTip Detecting if the console is in Interactive mode
So, in your scripts you want to gather information from the user who runs it and you use the Read-Host cmdlet. This of course works most of time but there…
Measuring PowerShell scripts
Earlier this year, Microsoft released the Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack which includes a lot of code samples that show how to build applications based on Windows PowerShell 3.0….
#PSTip Verify if a SQL database is mirrored or not
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When using SQL SMO to work with mirroring configuration, it is essential to verify if the database is mirrored, or not, before…
#PSTip Working with the Windows.Forms.Screen Class
When working with Windows PowerShell it can be important to know the screen configuration and resolution of the current computer monitors. The System.Windows.Forms.Screen class provides this information for every monitor attached…
#PSTip ValidatePattern – Friendlier error messages
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. PowerShell has a very nice list of built-in parameter validation attributes. They help validating parameter values before any code runs and give…
PowerShell Summit 2013 session recordings
Haven’t had the chance to attend the PowerShell Summit? You can now watch the recordings on YouTube thanks to Aaron Hoover, one of the great PowerShell enthusiasts who attended this successful…
#PSTip Validate your custom objects
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In PowerShell 3.0 validation attributes work for regular variables in the same way they worked previously for parameters. They give us many…
#PSTip List all AD attributes currently in use for AD users
This question was asked on the forums recently, is it possible to list all the Active Directory attributes that are currently in use for Active Directory users. It turns out this…
