I hope you’ve been enjoying the last few posts on working with PSDrives. To round out the set, I thought I’d remind you of a command in the PSScriptTools module that I use often, especially when teaching a live class or presenting at a conference. As you’ve seen, I use PSDrives as shortcuts to commonly…
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Extending PowerShell PSDrives
Yesterday I shared some PowerShell code I use to managing my PSDrive assignments. My code works for me in my environment. But that doesn’t mean it is necessarily right for you and your environment. There are plenty of ways to use PowerShell to achieve the same results as my code. This is something you should…
Fun with PSDrive Locations
A PowerShell PSDrive is a mapping between a PowerShell provider and a resource. The majority of our work is done in a file system PSDrive that corresponds to a file system drive. Let me show you a little trick that might come in handy with a PSDrive. My “trick” should apply to just about any…
New-PSDriveHere
I spend a lot of time, as you might expect, at a PowerShell prompt. Especially when training, presenting or doing demonstrations. Very often I’m in a folder with a long path like PS C:\users\jeff\Documents\Enterprise Mgmt Webinar. That takes up a lot of screen real estate and can be distracting. What I often will do is…
A Smart PSDrive Provider
I’ve been doing a lot with the ActiveDirectory module that ships with Windows Server 2008 R2 and which you can also use with the Remote Server Administration Tools on WIndows 7. As I was trying things out with the PSDrive provider I discovered something very cool.