Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

• News
  • PowerShell Google group

• Cmdlets of the week
  • New-item
  • Test-path
  • Get-WMIObject
    • MSDN WMI Reference

• Resource
  • Windows PowerShell and WMI – Technet webcast w/ Don Jones
  • “Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell” from Quest Software, link to Dmitry’s post

• Great blog post listing PowerShell tools

• Tips
  • On remoting
    • /n software “PowerShell Remoting” beta SSH Terminal session to remote server (requires agent install)

• Can you use -match instead of -eq?  Jeffery Snover’s blog post.

“Whenever you find yourself using –EQ, ask yourself if that is really want you want. You might be cheating yourself out of a ton great stuff. “

• Don’t forget what you already know    
  • $u = “user”; net localgroup administrators | where {$_ -match $u}
• Scott Hanselman’s blog post about finding out if a user is in the local admin group

• Gotchas

• • Excellent description of the PowerShell bug I ran into passing credentials with WMI from //o//
  • Forum post thread

• Powershell challenge
  • out-file $profile -noclobber -append -input `n’function sub($x,$y){$x – $y}’

 Thanks for listening!