Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Friday Fun – New Thriller

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I read a lot of thrillers by authors like James Rollins, Jeff Long, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs. Certainly not high-brow literature, but generally well written and often a lot of fun. Of course with any fiction genre, there are … Continue reading →

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Custom Prompts 3 Ways

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

Recently, a number of PowerShell MVPs were having a discussion about the transcript feature in Windows PowerShell. One comment that arose was a need to see how long tasks have run or otherwise provide some sort of date time information. … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun: Color My World

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

The end of another work week and time for a little PowerShell fun. When I first started using PowerShell, I was fascinated by Write-Host and the ability to write colorized text to the console. Visions of ANSI art danced in … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun: Music of the Shell

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

We made it to the end of the week, and I don’t know about you but I have my head buried in PowerShell work. But you know what they say about all work and no fun…so I figured I’d take … Continue reading →

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WBADMIN Demo

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

Earlier this year I wrote an article for REDMOND Magazine about the new backup features in Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m not going to re-hash the article here except to say it includes some sample scripts on using the WBADMIN … Continue reading →

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