Category Archives: PowerShell v2.0

Objects are the answer

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

As I usually do, I was helping out in the forums at ScriptingAnswers.com. A member had several variables that he wanted to show as a group. As is almost always the case, the answer in PowerShell is object. I talk … Continue reading →

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New Book Project – Reviewers Needed

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

While at Microsoft TechEd, I signed the paperwork to write a second edition of Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM for SAPIEN Press. It’s hard to believe so much has happened since that book hit the shelves in less … Continue reading →

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TechEd 2010 VBScript to PowerShell

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

Last week I posted my demo slides as well as my demo videos. As promised, I’ve gone through and expanded a bit on my original slide deck.  TechEdNA-2010-Hicks-ParadigmShift is a 3MB PDF of my expanded PowerPoint slide deck. If you … Continue reading →

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TechEd 2010 Demos

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

As promised,  I’ve assembled my demo scripts as well as the transcriptfrom my TechEd 2010 talk Paradigm Shift Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition to Windows PowerShell. The official slide deck is supposed to be available on the TechEd web site.  … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit PowerShell Wizard

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

During the last TechMentor conference in Orlando, deployment MVP and guru (I want to call her a deployment diva but I don’t want people to get the wrong idea. Think “diva” in the star sense without the ego and entourage,) … Continue reading →

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Microsoft TechEd NOLA

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

I’m very excited about Microsoft TechEd next week in New Orleans, LA. I’ll be presenting Tuesday afternoon at 1:30PM. The official title is “Paradigm Shift: Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition to Windows PowerShell”. In more practical terms, I’ll be talking … Continue reading →

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Get Parent Process

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

Recently I helping out on a post in the forums at ScriptingAnswers.com. The question centered around identifying processes on a computer and their parent process. There are many ways you could slice and dice this problem using WMI and Get-WmiObject. … Continue reading →

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