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Tag Archives: WMI
The PowerShell Morning Report
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
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, Windows 7, Windows Server, WMI
Tagged ConvertTo-HTML, Get-WMIObject, HTML, PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
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WMI PowerShell Tricks for Windows Server…
WMI PowerShell Tricks for Windows Server Management* My first article for @petri_co_il on WMI PowerShell Tricks http://bit.ly/rx1YrD Get-WMIObject – PowerShell Tricks Windows Server Management Get-WMIObject in Windows Powershell makes it easier to utilize Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and makes managing … Continue reading
Friday Fun Perf Counters with Write-Progress
While working on my course for TrainSignal on managing Windows Servers with PowerShell, I came up with an interesting use of the Write-Progress cmdlet. I was working on the performance monitoring lesson and realized I could use Write-Progress as rudimentary … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
Tagged Performance counter, PowerShell, video, WMI, Write-progress
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When writing WMI queries expressions in Windows PowerShell, it is recommended to use WMI filtering, as opposed to getting objects and then filtering with Where-Object. I see expressions like this quite often: get-wmiobject win32_process -computer $c | where {$_.name -eq … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Google Plus, PowerShell, WMI
Tagged filtering, PowerShell, WMI
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Compress Files By Extension
I never seem to build my test virtual machines with enough disk space. Which means at some point I start dealing with space issues and resort to all sorts of hacks to buy myself a little time. One thing I … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0, WMI
Tagged CIM_DATAFILE, PowerShell, Scriptng, WMI
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