I am very pleased to announce that my latest course from Trainsignal is now available. PowerShell v3 New Features is a course aimed at those of you who have experience with PowerShell v2. I wanted to create something that you could use as a jump-start into PowerShell v3 so the course focuses on what’s new,…
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Send PowerShell Reports by Mail
Today I came across a post about pinging a list of computers and send the results as a table via Outlook. Brian is a very smart Active Directory guy so I offered some PowerShell suggestions to make his task even easier. Obviously you can only offer so much in a blog comment, so I thought…
Background Performance Counters
Windows Powershell makes it relatively easy to collect performance counter information via the Get-Counter cmdlet. Because I’m assuming you want to collect more than a few seconds of performance information, you’ll need to take advantage of PowerShell background jobs if you want your prompt back. Of course, you can always open a second session, but…
Get Process Owner
I’ve been working on my second training course for Train Signal on managing Windows Server 2008 with Windows PowerShell, specifically the lesson on managing processes. I thought I’d share a little tidbit I worked out. In fact, I hope you’ll stay tuned for other little goodies over the next several weeks. The training video will…
Windows PowerShell Fundamentals Video Training
I’m very happy to report that my first training offering for Train Signal is now available. I have assembled a course that should cover just about everything you need to know to get started right away using Windows PowerShell. You can get the course online or on disk. If the disks are like other train signal courses,…