A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode
- News: Software updates, books, PS Virtual User Group (recording will be available)
- In Resources, we'll tell you about an interview with Jeffrey Snover, and several pieces of software.
- Cmdlet of the Week: New-Object
- In Tips, we'll talk about Hal's recent blog post involving benchmarking
- We've got a one-liner with a GUI.
- Gotchas about WMI
- Thanks for feedback from: Mace, John Cook, Justin Stokes
News
- PowerShell + is now free for non-commercial use!
- PowerShell TFM (2nd Edition)to be available soon - May be available already from the Sapien site
- Don says Sapien tends to run some insane deals on New Years Eve so it may be worth watching out for that
- PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting #2 was Dec 4th - This was the second virtual event. Speakers were: Don Jones (MVP), Dmitry Sotnikov (MVP), Oisin Grehan and Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft). Recording is supposed to be available, but as of this moment, Hal can't find a darn thing about it. Watch Marco's blog and PowerShellCommunity.org.
Resources
- Jeffery Snover interview at IT Forum (video from PodTech)
- Admin Script Editorfrom ITripoli
- Hal and Jonathan currently evaluating--looks extremely cool.
- PowerGUI - Version 1.0.12 released, now includes a debugger and more. Don't forget the known issues and patch to work with the CTP.
- SpecOps Command- use Group Policy to deploy and manage PowerShell scripts
- Can deploy PowerShell itself using GPO--as well as your favorite snapins!
- Includes new cmdlets
- All operations that you can perform from the administrative user interfaces you can perform from PowerShell.
Cmdlet of the week
- New-Object
- Creates an instance of a .Net or COM object.
- Examples:
new-object -comobject InternetExplorer.Application  new-object -comobject "Shell.Application"
- Also see Appendix E of the new book Windows PowerShell Cookbook
Tips
- Discussion of Hal's blog post: Solving Problems with PowerShell: Simple Benchmarking
- You can access mySQL databases from Powershell using .NET. Check out Get-MySQLDataSet.
- Oops--due to a clerical error, we forgot to cover this topic on the show! We'll get it next time, Kemis!
One-liners
[system.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::show("Hi mom")
Gotchas
- Win32_Service.Change() methodand weird WMI stuff
- Rfoust@ #PowerShell was looking for a way to change the service password on remote machines. There's a change() method but it's paremeters are really odd. A vbscript example I found shows something like change(,,,,,,,"password") but it doesn't work in PowerShell. Instead you have to insert $nulls and separate them by commas like so:
$rc=$svc.Change($Null,$Null,$Null,$Null,$Null,$Null,$Null,N3wP@ssw) - Solution by Jeffrey Hicks on the PowerShell.com forum thread "Using WMI and/or Get-Service / Set-Service to modify service properties"
- Why doesn't just changing the properties, which are read-write (as you can see using get-member) do the trick? We may never know. :( (That's a quip designed to inspire a listener to chime in with the answer.)
- Rfoust@ #PowerShell was looking for a way to change the service password on remote machines. There's a change() method but it's paremeters are really odd. A vbscript example I found shows something like change(,,,,,,,"password") but it doesn't work in PowerShell. Instead you have to insert $nulls and separate them by commas like so:
Thanks again to all of you listeners out there! Your feedback makes it all worthwhile, keep that rolling in. Our email address is [email protected], or you can comment on this very blog post. Also find us on Facebook here (Jonathan), here (Hal), and here (PowerScripting Podcast group).
Also a big shout out to Steve and the rest of the A Couple of Admins Podcasting crew!
