UPDATE 2 JULY 2013: Microsoft is informing MVPs that the fix is in, and new help files should be downloadable by (at latest) the morning of 3 July 2013. So get your Update-Help ready to run. More info. If you haven’t recently run Update-Help… don’t. There’s a problem with the help files that have been […]
I hate to seem negative, but I’ve noticed a few things about a number of the advanced entries that seem like folks didn’t read the instructions, or just weren’t careful about details. There were a surprising number of entries that had [string]$ComputerName instead of [string[]]$ComputerName in the params section and then went on to treat […]
This time of the year always feels like someone is holding down the fast forward button. I blinked and here we are Friday morning another week of scripts in the rear view. I spent most of my week in the beginner class this week, and was greeted by a combination of beginners and scripters who […]
 First of all, congratulations! It looks to me like a lot of learning is going on; the 2nd event entries look really good to me. I especially liked the way a number of you built up a one-liner by starting with a Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName (Get-Content file.txt) and piping it into Select-Object to generate the data. […]
I thought I’d mentioned this last time (tap tap, this thing on?), but maybe not: don’t format the output of your functions. The minute a function includes Format-*, you’ve trapped me into on-screen display, a text file or piece of paper modeled after the on-screen display, or not a lot of other choices. If I […]
My last few articles have looked at using WMI and CIM_DATAFILE class to find files, primarily using Get-WmiObject in PowerShell. But now that we have PowerShell 3.0 at our disposal, we can use the new CIM cmdlets. So I took my most recent version of Get-CIMFile and revised it specifically to use Get-CimInstance. I also […]
A question came up about piping between advanced functions. The input to the second function might be an array. To illustrate how this works imagine a function that gets disk information – or better still use this one. function get-mydisk{ … Continue reading →
A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine. function get-SID { param ( [string]$computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME ) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_AccountSID -ComputerName $computername | foreach { $da = (($_.Element).Split(“.”)[1]).Split(“,”) $sid = ($_.Setting -split … Continue reading →