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Episode 16 – Don gives us the Scripting Answers

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Special guest this episode is scripting guru Don Jones, the well-known author of several books, presenter and trainer at conferences and in webcasts and a lot more. Several interesting tips for your scripting Resources We go into the …

Specops Command Webinar

Corey from Special Operations Software wrote to let us know about a webinar demo of Specops Command that’s coming up next week. Here’s the details: I wanted to let you know about a webinar we will be doing every Tuesday 1PM EST on the Specops Command “PowerShell Remoting through …

Manipulating the Registry with PowerShell

In case you missed it, back in October, Shay wrote a cool set of functions for working with the registry. Here’s the list: Get-RegBinary Get-RegDWord Get-RegDefault Get-RegExpandString Get-RegMultipleString Get-RegQuadWord Get-RegString Get-RegValueKind New-RegSubKey Remove-RegSubKey …

Episode 14 – The IDEs are getting better

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode News: Software updates, books, PS Virtual User Group (recording will be available) In Resources, we’ll tell you about an interview with Jeffrey Snover, and several pieces of software. Cmdlet of the Week: New-Object In Tips, …

Episode 12 – Our first guest, Brandon Shell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Jam-packed show today! We ran so long, we had to skip the cmdlet-of-the-week segment! We have a Special Guest, and in fact our first guest, Brandon Shell, an MVP in Automation and author of the BSonPosh blog. News CTP! Unless you’ve been …

Creating and using custom objects

Listener Mace writes: I’ve seen this code: $values = new-object ‘object[,]’ 5,2 Can you expound on that? The author fills the array. $k = 0 foreach ($j in $exchangeserverlist) { $perf = New-Object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter($perfobj1, $counter1, $instance1, $j.Name) …

Get free disk space one-liner

Listener Bill writes, I have been looking at the get-help and get-member cmdlets, but have so far not found one thing I want to have as a “one-liner” - a command line that will return the free space on a certain drive. **""${env:computername}","" + (gwmi -Query …

Episode 11 – A new PowerShell community

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Big thanks to Shay and his PowerShell Radio post. 🙂 News PowerShell Community (powershellcommunity.org) “Real” non-profit organization created by corporate sponsors including Microsoft, Quest, Sapien, and ShellTools. Event …

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