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 Refreshing service objects
When you assign the result of a service query to a variable, you must take into account one very important thing – the result is just a snapshot of the service state…
#PSTip Detecting Wi-Fi adapters
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Using WMI we can get a list of Wi-Fi adapters with the following command: I couldn’t find any documentation on the MSNdis_PhysicalMediumType…
Channel 9’s MMS 2013 RSS feed is more fun with PowerShell
The MMS 2013 conference starts next week. The keynote and sessions will be available for replay through the Channel 9 web site. Channel 9 has unveiled their MMS 2013 page…
#PSTip List all fixed disk drives visible to SQL Server instance
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When automating SQL server database creation in PowerShell, we may want to give the end user an option to select from a…
#PSTip Change SQL Server MaxServerMemory configuration using SMO
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. As database administrators, we might want to configure SQL MaxServerMemory setting to ensure the SQL service does not occupy all available physical…
#PSTip View Policy Settings with RSOP WMI classes
Note: This tip requires admin privileges (elevated shell) To get Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) data we usually RSOP.mmc or the gpresult command line tool. But we can also use WMI to retrieve the settings. Under…
Free PowerShell 3.0 eBook in Brazilian Portuguese
Daniel Donda, Windows Expert-IT Pro MVP, has released a new PowerShell eBook written in Brazilian Portuguese. Windows PowerShell 3.0 for IT Pro is an eBook written with infrastructure administrators in mind. The…
