Last week I was helping someone out in the PowerShell forum at ScriptingAnswers.com. The specific problem is irrelevant;l however I learned something in the process that will affect how I write my own PowerShell functions from now on. Not being a developer I never picked up on this subtle (at least to me) distinction. Here’s [...]
I trust by now you are realizing how valuable Windows PowerShell is as a management tool. With a one line command you can accomplish an extraordinary amount of work. Sometimes this work may be long running, which is where background jobs come in handy. Or you may simply kick off a long running script and [...]
PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan posted a very promising PowerShell module the other day. He calls it the PModem File Transfer Protocol. It is based on the old bulletin board file transfer protocols of the late 20th century, which I have to admit I fondly remember using. Of course Oisin’s work intrigued me and after playing [...]
While reviewing and revising the manuscript for Windows PowerShell v2.0: TFM 3rd ed. I had the opportunity to revisit our chapter on working with events in PowerShell. An event in Windows is when something happens like a mouse-click, a process being created or window resized. In PowerShell you can easily watch for an event of interest and then do something when it happens or fires. This is referred to as an event subscription.
PowerShell v2.0 has a few event related cmdlets you can use for creating an event subscription: Register-WMIEvent, Register-ObjectEvent and Register-EngineEvent. Today I want to show you something I think you might find helpful using the last cmdlet in the list.
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