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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: PowerShell v2.0
Ping IP Range
Last week I came across a post on using PowerShell, or more specifically a .NET Framework class, to ping a range of computers in an IP subnet. The original post by Thomas Maurer is here. I added a comment. And … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged Invoke-Command, Jobs, new-object, objects, Ping, PowerShell, Scripting, Start-Job, Test-Connection
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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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Scenes from the Powershell Deep Div…
Scenes from the Powershell Deep Dive in Frankfurt as part of The Experts Conference. This was posted on Google+…
Posted in Conferences, Google Plus, PowerShell v2.0
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Renaming Files with PowerShell
I am not a big fan of file names with spaces. I realize they are easy to read and obviously much more “natural”, but they are simply a royal pain to deal with, especially when working from a command prompt … Continue reading
Compress Files By Extension
I never seem to build my test virtual machines with enough disk space. Which means at some point I start dealing with space issues and resort to all sorts of hacks to buy myself a little time. One thing I … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, WMI
Tagged CIM_DATAFILE, PowerShell, Scriptng, WMI
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