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I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Category Archives: PowerShell v2.0
Friday Fun – A Christmas Prompt
Over the last few weeks I’ve read about other people’s PowerShell prompts and offered a few suggestions of my own. This week’s Friday Fun creates colorful holiday prompt that counts down the number of days until Christmas.
Turning IPConfig DNSCache into PowerShell
Lately I’ve been writing about techniques to turn command line tools into PowerShell tools. Although I suppose the more accurate description is turning command line output into PowerShell pipelined output. The goal is to run a command line tool and … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged DNS, IPConfig, objects, PowerShell, Scripting
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Ping IP Range
Last week I came across a post on using PowerShell, or more specifically a .NET Framework class, to ping a range of computers in an IP subnet. The original post by Thomas Maurer is here. I added a comment. And … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged Invoke-Command, Jobs, new-object, objects, Ping, PowerShell, Scripting, Start-Job, Test-Connection
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Turning CLI Tools into PowerShell Tools Deep Dive Demos
Last week I did a presentation at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt about turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. A video recording should be posted later. But in the meantime, here is a copy of my slide deck, … Continue reading
Posted in CommandLine, Conferences, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged conferences, DeepDive, functions, PowerShell
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Scenes from the Powershell Deep Div…
Scenes from the Powershell Deep Dive in Frankfurt as part of The Experts Conference. This was posted on Google+…
Posted in Conferences, Google Plus, PowerShell v2.0
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