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WOOHA it’s been a great week. I sat down last night my brain all fried and tried to compile a list of things to remember from the past week. There is much focus on “changing the mindset” of the community. Get into the DevOps mindset and become a toolmakers. This is my take-home from the conference. There’s no way to summarize all of the conference other than to say: Look forward to the videos on YouTube.
After my two first posts (Multithreading using jobs, List users logged on to your machines) where I mentioned PowershellGallery.com a few times and after Warren talked about the Gallery a few days ago I felt like digging a little deeper to see if I was actually doing it right. So I wrote them an email and this was their reply: ————————– “Hi Jonas – The “limited preview” designation on the PowerShell Gallery is because we are doing significant development to the site.
Password policies are the best 😀 Sometimes they lead to account logouts when someone forgets to logout of a session somewhere on the network though. It might be the TS session they use once a quarter for reporting or maybe you know the feeling when you RDP to a server only to find that it is locked by 2 other admins who forgot to logoff when they left. (Off cause this never happens… we all use PowerShell…) Anyway, this had me searching for a user session somewhere on the network.
Often I have had to check something against all servers or clients. A classic problem and every time I run into the it it’s time consuming and running the job multithreaded would be nice. A few years back I found a nice little script for multithreading which I have been using quite often. Unfortunately this wasn’t a module. And I can’t remember where it came from. So this week I set my mind on recreating this as a module and to see if I can publish it on PowerShell Gallery.
Working with wifi I have often needed to do a survey of the surroundings, and therefor I loved that windows 7 (maybe even Vista) introduced more advanced netsh with wifi support. There’s a lot of useful information but it might be nice to have a more graphical overview. The thing is that a text blob like this is not very handy to work with. Some time late last year I heard a guy from the powershell team on the Powerscripting podcast talk about ConvertFrom-String and the new template based parsing.