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: new-object
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
1 Comment
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
9 Comments
Process Snapshot
Yesterday I ended up running an impromptu browser test, comparing memory utilization. See what Twitter can do to your time!! The browsers themselves are really irrelevant. What you might find useful is the little PowerShell code I put together to … Continue reading
Scripting Games 2011 Beginner Event 5 Commentary
My commentary for Beginner Event 5 in the 2011 Scripting Games is now available. One item that seems to be missing on the ScriptingGuys site is my complete solution so I thought I would share it here, plus a variation.
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, WMI
Tagged functions, Get-WMObj, new-object, PowerShell, ScripitngGames, WMI
3 Comments
Get Comon Data
While judging entries in this year’s Scripting Games I realized there were some common properties that were repeatedly used. This got me thinking about a simple way to retrieve that information with a single command Then you could access the … Continue reading



