Having an understanding of your systems performance is a crucial part of running IT infrastructure. If a user comes to us and says “why is my application running slowly?”, where do we start? Is it their machine? Is it the database server? Is it the file server? The first thing we usually do is open up perfmon.exe and […]
Hey there! I thought we could test PowerShell Direct together today. Here’s the elevator pitch: In Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, we can send PowerShell commands from the Hyper-V host directly to its corresponding virtual machines (VMs), even in the absence of guest VM networking. Yeah, that’s cool, isn’t it? What’s just as impressive is that PowerShell […]
Well this is week number two in my quest to post an article once a week and I am back with a common request for Exchange administrators. There are a lot of scenarios that bring up a need to remove an e-mail or e-mails from all mailboxes in your environment. Perhaps there was a disgruntled […]
Hello PowerShell.org community, This is my first post here at PowerShell.org, and I have a goal of posting tips, tricks, articles, and solutions once a week. My first exposure to scripting was on my x486 computer. I would always create .bat files to launch my DOS based games from the root folder. I learned complex […]
We are very excited for tomorrow night’s show! Please join us at the usual time (9:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM PDT) and the usual place (live.powerscripting.net) as we have a chat with Andrew Mason, group program manager from Microsoft to talk about Nano Server! In case you haven’t heard, Nano Server is: a server operating system […]
Take a minute think about how many PowerShell scripts you have written for yourself or your team. Countless functions and modules, helping to automate this or fix that or make your teams lives easier. You spend hours coding, writing in-line help, testing, packaging your script, distributing it to your team. All that effort, and then […]
Richard’s log, stardate 2457164.5 Today’s destination is the Monad Manifesto Annotation Project. The idea behind this project is to keep the manifesto intact somewhere on the internet, and to provide the possibility to the community to annotate on the several topics in the manifesto. The idea for this came from Pluralsight author Tim Warner, with […]
PowerShell… An exciting frontier… These are the voyages of a PowerShell adventurer. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new cmdlets… To seek out new modules; new parameters… To boldly go where no one has gone before!” Richard’s log, stardate 2457163. Our destination for today is my very first post on PowerShell.org. As you can see, […]
After all the DSC-related excitement this week, there have been a few online and Twitter-based discussions including Chef, Puppet, and similar solutions. Many of these discussions start off with a tone I suppose I should be used to: fanboy dissing. “Puppet already does this and is cross-platform! Why should I bother with DSC?” Those people, […]
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Paul Long from Microsoft about Message Analyzer News Visit the Scripting Guys booth at TechEd! PowerShell Security is the topic at the Brisbane Infrastructure User’s Group on May 13th The Florida PowerShell User Group is meeting on May […]
This Thursday, we’re going to delve into Microsoft’s network capture and analysis tool: Message Analyzer. Paul Long is a tech evangelist at Microsoft, and he writes at the MessageAnalyzer blog. Please join us at live.powerscripting.net at 9:30 PM EDT for the live discussion and chatroom!
Join us Thursday, May 1st when Boe Prox will present on “Managing WSUS with Windows PowerShell”. Managing WSUS with Windows PowerShell Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is an extremely useful enterprise patching solution from Microsoft that allows you to keep your systems up to date with various types of patches. Boe is going to show us […]