Sometimes I do things in PowerShell just to see what happens. This is a great way to learn about new cmdlets and techniques. Sometimes these experiments lead to useful results. Other times they may end up as teaching devices. Of course the result could serve both purposes and you may have to decide that today…
Tag: PSCredential
Scripting with PSCredential
I see this question often: how can I pass a parameter value for a PSCredential that might be a credential object or it might be a user name? In the past I’ve used code like this: begin { Write-Verbose -Message “Starting $($myinvocation.mycommand)” write-verbose -Message “Using volume $($volume.toUpper())” #convert credential to a PSCredential if a string…
Get WMI Namespace
PowerShell and WMI just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, beer and pretzels, or salt and pepper. However, discovering things about WMI isn’t always so easy. There are plenty of tools and scripts that will help you uncover WMI goodness, but here’s another one anyway. Today’s PowerShell function will get all namespaces…
Drive Report Console Chart
In thinking about some of my recent posts, I realize I should make clear that these scripts and functions are not necessarily good PowerShell examples. They don’t take advantage of objects and the pipeline. They are single purpose and one-dimensional. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. My recent examples, and the one I have…