Automating the world one-liner at a time…
August 30, 2009Aug 30, 200908/30/09I was messing around with my son’s computer today trying to figure out why one of his programs wouldn’t work. I was going to use ProcMon to monitor the processes but wasn’t sure what the processes where. So first I had to figure out what processes were getting started when I ran his program.
August 30, 2009Aug 30, 200908/30/09I recently did a pretty wide ranging interview for TechNet with Osama Sajid. They broke it up into 3 sections. You can find the first section (along with pointers to the others) HERE. In part 3 I talk about the idea of Integrated Lifetime Earnings and how this is affected by PowerShell.
August 28, 2009Aug 28, 200908/28/09PowerShellCommunity.org has announced that they have a got a new sponsor, Pragma Systems. SSH and Telnet folks know Pragma very well. For Powershell users they provide the capability to access Windows PowerShell from any client that runs a ssh or telnet client.
August 26, 2009Aug 26, 200908/26/09On one of our internal discussion aliases, someone asked why do we need a plus (+) the class name for FTP?
Typically, you would expect this to work [Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp], but it doesn’t. The solution is [Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp] and it has something to do with nested classes
In C#,
August 13, 2009Aug 13, 200908/13/09Announcing the public release of Microsoft Windows Management Framework RC for Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 and SP2. This RC includes release notes and the following components:
· Windows PowerShell 2.0
· WinRM 2.0
· BITS 4.0
You can download it from here
https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads
August 12, 2009Aug 12, 200908/12/09I just got a quick ping from someone at work for an uptime script. I checked in WMI with by using Search-WmiHelp to find a wmi class that had an uptime property (Win32_OperatingSystem has LastBootUpTime). While I had found the uptime property I needed,
August 11, 2009Aug 11, 200908/11/09Scripting Guys have posted a wrap-up to the Summer Scripting Games.. they will be taking the winner scripts one by one and explain it in detail.
See it here
Thanks
Osama Sajid, Program Manager
August 3, 2009Aug 3, 200908/3/09SAPIEN Technologies ,makers of PrimalScripts have added another cool product for Windows PowerShell users – PrimalForms. Check it out http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms
Thanks
Osama Sajid, Program Manager
