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Books
Community Book of PowerShell Practices
Released in our new Git repo: _The Community Book of PowerShell Practices, _an ongoing book started from this past Summer’s “Great Debates” blog post series. Grab it from https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/blob/master/Practices/2013Sep_Practices/2013Sep_Practices.doc and …
Training
Last chance for feedback on PowerShell course 10961A/B
I’m in the midst of working on 10961C, the Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 / PowerShell 4.0 update of Microsoft’s 10961A/B course, “Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell.” I anticipate this being closed out by the end of November, 2013, so if you’ve …
PhillyPoSH 11/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials
John Mello gave a presentation on a script that searches a mailbox for an email by subject and downloads any attachments it may contain. A copy of his scripts can be obtained here. Jason Helmick, Senior Technologist at Concentrated Tech and Windows PowerShell MVP, gave a presentation on …
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PowerShell for Admins
Monitoring SQL Server Backups
One of the most important tasks for the** **DBAs is to ensure that there is a maintenance plan to recover data from a given disaster. As a DBA we need to design a maintenance plan according to our scenario and business requirements. Do we want to be able to recover data at any point of time? How …
PowerShell for Admins
Configuring a Desired State Configuration Client
Once we have our pull server in place and we’re starting to create configurations, we need to set up our client nodes to be able to connect to the pull server and how we want the node to behave. The High Points Overview Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) Creating Configurations (one of …
Training
PowerShell "Scripting and Toolmaking" Classroom Training Course Now Available to Microsoft Training Centers
Attention Microsoft training centers! Microsoft’s Courseware Marketplace now offers course 55039AC, “Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking.” Designed as a 5-day course, it’s a spiritual “Part 2” to Microsoft Official Curriculum course 10961. With 10961, the …
PowerShell for Admins
Why Get-Content Ain't Yer Friend
Well, it isn’t your enemy, of course, but it’s definitely a tricky little beast. Get-Content is quickly becoming my nemesis, because it’s sucking a lot of PowerShell newcomers into its insidious little trap. Actually, the real problem is that most newcomers don’t really …
PowerShell for Admins
The Shell vs. The Host
One thing that’s often very confusing about PowerShell is the difference between the shell itself - what I’ll call the engine in this article - and the application that hosts the engine. You see, you as a human being can’t really interact directly with PowerShell’s engine. …