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In preparation for the upcoming Scripting Games, the April 2013 issue of the free PowerShell.org TechLetter will feature tips, examples, and advice for helping you do the best in the Games! Remember that the Competitor Guide is now available, so you can start reviewing how the Games will be graded …
If were following good security practices we run our Windows system with UAC enabled. This means that if you forget to launch your PowerShell prompt as Administrator when you run a script that requires administrative privilege then that script will fail. It would be nice to build a mechanism into …
My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning"™s deal of the day for 6 April 2013. The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours. This is your chance to get the book with a 50% discount. Use code dotd0406au at manning.com/siddaway2/ The Deal of the Day offer also …
Registration for the 2013 Scripting Games will begin April 22nd (check this post in case we need to make a change to that). You will register for either the Beginner or Advanced track. Get the Beginner Track Practice Event Get the Advanced Track Practice Event Each event will kick off on a Thursday, …
I often need to create file names that include the date & time the file was created in the name. I"™ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest. I want the date in this format: year-month-day-hour-minute-second. In other words a format that is easily sortable. I …
The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning. Today is PowerShell in Practice http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/03/excel-spreadsheets.aspx Check out the deals all this week on Manning PowerShell books
Our Competitor Guide is now online - you can download it here: 2013 Competitor Guide We’re doing things a bit differently this year. We’ll be engaging the overall PowerShell community for numeric grades - and those doing the grading have an awesome chance to win some great prizes! Our …
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 …
