Episode 143 – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Chris Harris from Microsoft about System Center Operations Manager 2012!

News

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• James Brundage is blogging over at http://blog.start-automating.com/
• Hal’s new PowerCLI TrainSignal course is out!
• User group news:
  • NYC Apr 11th, MVP Aleksandar Nikolic will be talking about PowerShell Remoting
• Dmitry did an interview with Sean Kearney about PowerShell at the MVP Summit
• The Scripting Games 2011 are here!
• Episode 22 of the Get-Scripting Podcast has Travis Jones on talking about the PowerShell Deep Dive
• Jonathan Medd is giving away a copy of the new PowerCLI book
• Take the PowerShell Quiz!

Interview

 

 

 

Chatroom Buzz:

21:47 <Start-Automating> ## are you deprecating or removing your old commands?

 

• Tobias posted a one-hour Getting Started with PowerShell video
• Marco Shaw blogged about the VMM changes from 2008 R2 to 2012 Beta 1
• Tome’s presentation to the UK PSUG was recorded and is now available online
• Making the most of the 2011 Scripting Games
• Ravi posted a very cool PowerShell ISE Addon: Get-History GUI

 

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Feedback

This one is from Aaron Nelson aka SQLVariant:
I have a PowerShell question for you gurus. I know precisely how to do this in SQL, but I’m only kinda-sure how to do this in PowerShell.
My question is how do you contain an OR to only a certain portion of a Where-Object? In SQL all you have to do is put parens around the clauses and that will make their results act as one ‘where’ clause. In PowerShell all I could think to do is to break it up into multiple Where-Object statements. There has to be a better way to do this right?
SQL Example:
WHERE (NAME LIKE ‘%SQL%’
       OR NAME LIKE ‘Reporting%’)
   AND StartMode = ‘Auto’
   AND Started != ‘True’
PowerShell Example (that doesn’t work)


Get-WmiObject win32_service -ComputerName AARON |
Where {$_.name -match “^*SQL*” -or $_.name -match “Report”} |
Where {$_.StartMode -eq “Auto” -and $_.Started -ne “True”} |
Select SystemName, Name, StartName, Started, StartMode | Ft -a

Review the Operator Precedence help page, you’ll see that -and -or are near the bottom, so you need parentheses to make this work. For example:
get-stuff | ? { ($_ -gt $x) -and ($_ -ne $y) }