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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: Write-Host
Friday Fun: Output to 2 Places in 1
Today’s Friday Fun comes out of a short exchange I had yesterday with Hal Rottenberg on Google Plus. We were playing around with piping a PowerShell command to Clip.exe which dumps the output to the Windows Clipboard. I got to … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged FridayFun, Function, PowerShell, Tee-Object, Write-Host
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Friday Fun Drive Usage Console Graph
I think you’ll like this. Normally, I prefer my PowerShell commands to write objects to the pipeline. But there’s nothing wrong with sending output directly to the console, as long as you know that the output is intended only for … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Scripting, WMI
Tagged console, Get-WMIObject, Group-Object, PowerShell, Write-Host
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Friday Fun: Start-TypedDemo v2
Not too long ago I posted a function I wrote for doing PowerShell demonstrations. My goal was to simulate a live interactive demo but without the typing so I could focus on explaining and not typing. The first version was … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0, Professional, Scripting, Training
Tagged Function, PowerShell, ScriptBlock, Scripting, Write-Host
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Start-TypedDemo
As you know, I do a lot of presenting and training. Normally I use the ubiquitous Start-Demo function to run through a demo list of commands. Most of this time this works just fine. But when I’m doing videos, especially … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, Training
Tagged Demo, Function, PowerShell, Write-Host
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Friday Fun Out-Rainbow
For my readers who are just discovering my Friday posts, let me remind you that these are not necessarily practical, production worthy PowerShell scripts and functions. They are meant to be fun, yet educational. For example, in today’s Friday Fun … Continue reading
