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Mr. Roboto is coming
I will be taking over the Mr. Roboto column for REDMOND Magazine. If you’ve seen the column, I don’t know if I’ll be wearing the shiny Borg suit that Don Jones used to wear. It chafes a little but nothing that a little oil won’t cure. If you haven’t read the column, its goal is…
Tip Sheet Thoughts
As some of you may know, I’ve started writing the weekly Tip Sheet column for MCPMag.com. It’s a short column with just enough room to get a tip or suggestion out. There’s not nearly enough room to explain my reasoning for the tip so I thought I’d jot down some thoughts about my goals and…
PowerShell TFM is coming
It’s taken a lot of work, and some patience with Microsoft to get RC2 out of the door, but the new PowerShell book is in post-production. I don’t have a definite publishing date but it is coming! You can help us figure out how many to print by pre-ordering at Amazon. You can also check…
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…
It’s Official
It must be official now. I’ll be working for SAPIEN Technologies as a Scripting Guru. I’m definitely exicted about it. SAPIEN Technologies – The Official Blog :: New Scripting Guru Joins SAPIEN Family
Logon Script Generator 1.1
While testing some Techmentor demos with the Logon Script Generator, I found a few bugs. The tool allows you to use %username% in a file UNC (like \\file03\%username% and it substitutes the appropriate VBScript to get the username. What I didn’t take into account is if you wanted to have that be a hidden share…
New Opportunities
Beginning in November, I will be working for SAPIEN Technologies as a Scripting Guru. I’ll be spending a lot of time writing. There are plans for several new books through SAPIEN Press that I’ll be responsible for. I’ll also be much more active in the forums at ScriptingAnswers.com and other places around the Net. I’ll…
PowerShell RC2 is out!
Finally!! You can now download PowerShell RC2 from Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925228. There are packages for XP and Windows 2003. I’m trusting that Powershell is functionally identical. The link for the 2003 x86 edition doesn’t work (at least at the time of this posting) but you can get the file at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73252&clcid=0x409.Technorati Tags:PowerShell Scripting
Writing the Registry in PowerShell
Last month I showed you how to read the registry in PowerShell. I went through a script that would read the registered owner and organization. Now I’ll show you how to change those properties in PowerShell. Here’s the script, which is also available for download from my script library. Here’s the script, then we’ll go…
iPod this Blog
I was browing Google the other day looking for new things to do with my iPod when I came across a site that lets you convert an RSS feed into a note file that you can read on your iPod. You enter in a URL, click a button and you get a file you can…
Free tool for managing local admin passwords
I’ve put together an HTA-based tool that can be used to not only report on the age of local administrator password on remote systems, but also to change it. You can either report/change on one computer at a time or you can process a list of computers. The tool is free for you to use…
Background jobs in PowerShell
The *nix world has always had the ability to run jobs in the background. Now it’s possible to do that in PowerShell. There is a terrific post on this at: http://jtruher.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7143DA6E51A2628D!130.entry You’ll need to copy some scripts and functions from the entry and save them locally. You also might need to tweak things if you…
Reading the Registry in PowerShell
One of the great PowerShell features is that it treats the registry like any other location or directory. In PowerShell you can connect directly to the registry and navigate the key hierarchy just as if it as a logical drive with folders. I have a very brief demonstration script you can run to find the…
PowerShell RC2 Release Notes
The PowerShell team at Microsoft has released draft notes on the forthcoming RC2 of PowerShell. They still won’t publicly admit to a release date but I hope its soon. I really want to get my hands on the WMI changes. Don Jones and I need RC2 so we can update the new PowerShell book and…