I finished up my slide decks last week for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 -April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear and see your favorite IT speakers. Plus it’s a lot of fun to meet your peers, swap…
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Conference Samples Available
The demos, updated slide decks and other stuff for the Fall Techmentor conference, as well as the 2 day PowerShell pre-conference event before WinConnections last week, are now available for download at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp. I think I spent half of November in Las Vegas (not that its a bad thing). Thanks to all of you who…
Classes are filling up
There are still a few seats available for the upcoming training sessions in Las Vegas. You can select either a 2 day advanced course on VBScript, a 3 day course on PowerShell or take the full week and get the most bang for your training buck. Registration deadline is October 12, 2007. The classes are…
VBScript Training in Las Vegas
I will be doing a live 2 day VBScript class this fall in Las Vegas (Oct. 22 and 23). I’ll be covering ADSI, WMI, HTAs, WSF and more. This is a class for experienced VBScripters who want to take it to the next level. This is a hands on class with with labs and one…
PowerShell Mini-Conference
If you’ve got some free time in early November and want to get up to speed on PowerShell in the least amount of time, then come to Las Vegas. Don Jones (PoweShell MVP) and I will be running a 2 day PowerShell mini-conference. This will be an intense 2 days of hands-on PowerShell training. Bring…
Download Techmentor Orlando 2007 Updated Material
Don Jones and I have finally gotten zip files with all the updated session material from the Techmentor Orlando 2007 conference. There is a zip file for each of us at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp. I know in my zip file there are several readme files so make sure you look at them. I’ve included the video demos…
SAPIEN Scripting Makeover Contest
In case you missed it, or perhaps you’ve let it slide, you really need to take a look at the Scripting Makeover contest that SAPIEN Technologies is running. The contest winner gets over $20,000 in automation related products and services. Essentially, you submit your company or organization (there are some rules) and provide some adminisitrative…
Techmentor 2007 Orlando
Once again, I will be presenting at Techmentor in Orlando March 26-30. I’ll be doing sessions on ADSI, Batch files, PowerShell, and more. If you’ve never been, it’s a great time to get out of the office and learn a ton of real-world material that you can take back to the shop and put immediately…
PowerShell Training
I will be doing some 2 day PowerShell training courses this year around the country. Dallas, TXMay 14, 2007 to May 15, 2007 Atlanta, GAMay 17, 2007 to May 18, 2007 Omaha, NEJun 25, 2007 to Jun 26, 2007 Philadelphia, PAJun 28, 2007 to Jun 29, 2007 Chicago, ILAug 20, 2007 to Aug 21, 2007…
2007 PowerShell Training
Next year I will be on the road with a 2 day PowerShell training class through SAPIEN Technologies. Maybe I’ll even be coming to a city near you. Once dates and cities are finalized I’ll be sure to let you know. Please stay tuned. Technorati Tags:PowerShell Scripting
Techmentor Las Vegas 2006 Demo CD
I’ve posted the ISO for my demo CD from Techmentor Las Vegas 2006. This 160MB CD has all of my demos (including video demos), updated slides, web links. Be sure to install the VMWare Video codec (included) before you try to view any of the AVI files. For right now, or until bandwidth becomes an…
Techmentor: Video demos
In order to view the video demos from VMWare 5.5, you’ll need to install a VMWare codec, until I get a chance to run them through something like Windows Movie Maker. You can download the free codec at http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/. Scroll to the bottom on the page. The AdminWeb Scripting video demos are at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm, as…
Techmentor: WMIC Examples
I didn’t get a chance to run through the WMIC examples. The Advanced VBScript book covers this topic in a little more detail. I also have a short PDF intro on WMIC you can download at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm Before you run any examples, you need to “install” WMIC. This basically means at a command prompt type…
Techmentor: FOR examples
The FOR command is one of the most important commands you can use as a Windows administrator. I have a short article on the command you can download at http://www.jdhitsolutions.com/tutorials.htm (grab the FOR Essentials link) . Here are few of the examples I used in the Commandline Script session. (By the way, if you’d like…
Techmentor: DSQuery and DSMod examples
During the command line scripting session, I demonstrated how to use the directory service command line tools like dsmod, dsquery and dsget. You can get syntax help by running ‘dsquery /?’ (or dsmod,dsadd,dsget). There’s a lot of help information so you’ll probably want to pipe the results using More (dsquery /? | more) You can…