About Me

I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Category Archives: CommandLine
Convert Text to Object Updated
I’ve had a few comments and emails lately about my post and script on converting text to objects. I decided the function needed a little more lovin’ so today I have an updated version, complete with comment based help. Function … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Convert, PowerShell, Scripting, Split
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Turning IPConfig DNSCache into PowerShell
Lately I’ve been writing about techniques to turn command line tools into PowerShell tools. Although I suppose the more accurate description is turning command line output into PowerShell pipelined output. The goal is to run a command line tool and … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged DNS, IPConfig, objects, PowerShell, Scripting
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Simple Where Filters
The comment about how awkward it is in PowerShell to filter out folders with Get-ChidlItem, or its alias dir, came up the other day on Twitter. I’ll be the first to admit that running a DIR command and wanting to … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell
Tagged functions, Get-ChildItem, PowerShell, Where-Object
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Convert Text to Object
Today I have another tool in my new battle regarding turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. The bottom line is we want to have objects written to the pipeline. At the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt there was a … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, Conferences, PowerShell
Tagged DeepDive, functions, hashtable, new-object, objects, PowerShell, Scripting
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Turning CLI Tools into PowerShell Tools Deep Dive Demos
Last week I did a presentation at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt about turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. A video recording should be posted later. But in the meantime, here is a copy of my slide deck, … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, Conferences, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged conferences, DeepDive, functions, PowerShell
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