Tag Archives: Scripting

The PowerShell Morning Report

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Jeffery Hicks

I love how easy it is to manage computers with Windows PowerShell. It is a great reporting tool, but often I find people getting locked into one approach. I’m a big believer in flexibility and re-use and using objects in … Continue reading →

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Send PowerShell Reports by Mail

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

Today I came across a post about pinging a list of computers and send the results as a table via Outlook. Brian is a very smart Active Directory guy so I offered some PowerShell suggestions to make his task even … Continue reading →

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Add WhatIf Support to Your PowerShell Scripts

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

In one of my recent articles for SMB IT, I included a PowerShell module. In the article I referenced that I included support for -Whatif in one of the functions. I was asked on Twitter to explain what I meant … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun – Get Number Object

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

You most likely know that I’m all about the object and the PowerShell pipeline. Everything in PowerShell is an object. Pipe something to Get-Member and you can discover all of the object’s properties and methods (ie its members). Some objects, … Continue reading →

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Turning IPConfig DNSCache into PowerShell

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

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 →

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