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Take a look at this: `# version 1 Get-Content computers.txt | ForEach-Object { $os = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -comp $_ $bios = Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp $_ $props = @{computername=$_; osversion=$os.version; biosserial=$bios.serialnumber} New-Object PSObject -Prop $props } version 2 …
Active Directory SDK team member and former Senior Programing writer for the Windows PowerShell team, Jun Blender gave a presentation on The Hidden Charms of Windows PowerShell 3.0 via Lync. You can get a copy of her presentation here and see a recording of the Lync meeting on our YouTube channel …
Tthe WSUS API can be used to perform a multitude of WSUS tasks from approving patches, removing clients to creating automatic approval rules to many other things. By diving deeper into the API reveals that we can also find out the name of the SQL server (if using a remote SQL database server) that …
I have received a lot of interest in a PowerShell Summit Europe, and we are starting to look at doing one in 2014. I know that’s a long way off, but it takes time to put these together when everyone’s volunteering that time! I have put together a very short survey to see if there is any …
Here’s an age-old debate that we can finally, perhaps, put an end to: The backtick character for line continuation. The basic concept looks like this: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_BIOS -ComputerName whatever -Filter "something='else'"This trick relies on the fact that the backtick …
I’ve been working with a couple of folks lately who’ve been trying to review and pilot Active Directory auditing solutions. Both bemoaned the fact that, unlike consumer products of nearly any kind, IT products (specifically, enterprise software in this instance), don’t really get …
Just an FYI that I posted a walkthrough on my blog, of DSC, including my experiences as it relates to Group Policy: http://bit.ly/1868BYS
Today, Brad Anderson (Corporate VP in the Windows Server/System Center unit) posted the first in what should be a series of “What’s New in 2012 R2” articles. In it, Anderson focuses on how Microsoft squeezed so many features into the 2012R2 release in such a short period of time. …
I’m informed that sometime today Microsoft will be posting fixed core cmdlet help files for your downloading pleasure - so it’s safe to run Update-Help again, and you should definitely do so. There are likely a lot of fixes and improvements to the help text, and you won’t be …
Here’s an easy, low-stakes debate: How do you like to format your scripting constructs? And, more importantly, why do you like your method? For example, I tend to do this: `If ($this -eq $that) { do this } else { do this } `I do so out of long habit with C-like syntax, and because when …
