Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know
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A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.![]()
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News
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Cmdlets of the week
New-item
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Test-path
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Get-WMIObject
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Resource
Windows PowerShell and WMI - Technet webcast w/ Don Jones
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“Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell” from Quest Software, link to Dmitry’s post
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Great [blog post](http://www.leadfollowmove.com/powershell-toolbox/) listing PowerShell tools
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Tips
On remoting
/n software “PowerShell Remoting” beta SSH Terminal session to remote server (requires agent install)
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Can you use -match instead of -eq? Jeffery Snover’s blog post.
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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. "
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Don’t forget what you already know   Â
$u = “user”; net localgroup administrators | where {$_ -match $u}
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Scott Hanselman’s blog post about finding out if a user is in the local admin group
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Gotchas
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Excellent description of the PowerShell bug I ran into passing credentials with WMI from
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[Forum post thread](http://www.scriptinganswers.com/forum2/forum_posts.asp?TID=1041&PID=6127)
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Powershell challenge
out-file $profile -noclobber -append -input `n’function sub($x,$y){$x - $y}'
 Thanks for listening!