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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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Tag Archives: Jobs
Friday Fun: A PowerShell Alarm Clock
Today’s Friday Fun is a continuation of my exploration of ways to use Start-Job. A few weeks ago I wrote about using Start-Job to create “scheduled” tasks. I realized I could take this further and turn this into a sort … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged FridayFun, Jobs, PowerShell, Start-Job
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Background Performance Counters
Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of PowerShell background jobs if … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Train Signal, Windows Server
Tagged Get-Counter, Jobs, PerfMon, PowerShell, Start-Job
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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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Get Local Administrators with WMI and PowerShell
Earlier this week I was helping someone out on a problem working with the local administrators group. There are a variety of ways to enumerate the members of a local group. The code he was using involved WMI. I hadn’t … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, WMI
Tagged Administrators, functions, Get-WMIObject, Invoke-Command, Jobs, PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
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Get File Utilization by Extension
In the past I’ve posted a few PowerShell functions that provide all types of file and folder information. The other day I had a reason to revisit one of them and I spent a little time revising and expanding. This … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Files, Get-ChildItem, Group-Ojbect, Invoke-Expression, Jobs, Measure-Object, PowerShell
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