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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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Tag Archives: Select-Object
Friday Fun Get Content Words
Recently I was tracking down a bug in script for a client. The problem turned out to be a simple typo. I could have easily avoided that by using Set-StrictMode, which I do now, but that’s not what this is … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Get-Content, PowerShell, regex, Regular Expressions, Scripting, Select-Object
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Select Object Properties with Values
Here’s another concept I know I’ve written about in the past but that needed an update. A common technique I use when exploring and discovering objects is to pipe the object to Select-Object specifying all properties, get-service spooler | select … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged functions, get-member, objects, PowerShell, Scripting, Select-Object
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ByValue, I Think He’s Got It
Recently I responded to an email from a student seeking clarification about the difference between ByValue and ByProperty when it comes to parameter binding. This is what makes pipelined expressions work in Windows PowerShell. When you look at cmdlet help, … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, PowerShell
Tagged Get-Content, Get-Service, parameter, Pipeline, PowerShell, Select-Object
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Get Properties with Values
One of my nuisance issues when using WMI with Windows PowerShell, is that when looking at all properties I have to wade though many that have no value. I’d prefer to only view properties that have a populated value. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, WMI
Tagged PowerShell, ScriptBlock, Select-Object, Where-Object, WMI
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