Like many IT Pros, I’m a big fan of the utilities that make up the Sysinternals suite. A number of years ago, Microsoft created a “live” web directory (http:\\live.sysinternals.com\tools) that allowed you direct access to each utility. While this is very handy, personally I prefer to keep a local version. I used to periodically check…
Tag: webclient
Friday Fun Quote of the Day
For this week’s Friday Fun post, I have another idea on how to brighten your PowerShell console. The concept of a message of the day or quote of the day in computing goes way back to the dark ages (ie before PowerShell). I thought it might be fun to see what we could do with…
PowerShell Weather Module
I first wrote a Windows PowerShell function several years ago to retrieve weather information via Yahoo’s weather service. I’ve been itching to rewrite it and finally found some time over the weekend. Turns out it’s a good thing I did because the method I had been using to query the Yahoo web service has been…