Subscribe via RSSI’m taking a brief departure from the normal techie nature of the blog to note the passing of jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. I played trumpet through my college years and have fond memories as a high schoold student seeing Maynard play in person. I can still recall seeing him at a high school jazz concert….
New Script Search Engine
SAPIEN has rolled out a new search site devoted to administrative scripting. The search engine is tuned to find scripts and information related to scripting. Right now it’s hand tuned to known specific sites with script libraries and the like. Their official announcement can be found here:SAPIEN Technologies – The Official Blog :: New Search…
PowerShell TFM available for Pre-Order
Amazon now has PowerShell TFM available for pre-order. They are listing October 2nd as the release date, although don’t be surprised if it is a little later. The book is basically finished, but we’re waiting for the release of PowerShell RC2 so we can incorporate those changes into the book. We’re expecting some significant changes…
Advanced VBScript Text Stats
Amazon is always coming up with new ways to look at books and buying habits. The latest I came across are text stats. For books where they have access to the content, Amazon will process the text and come up with stats for things like complexity and readability. Because Amazon has the entire Advanced VBScript…
More free scripting tools
SAPIEN Technologies has released some free tools for scripters at http://www.primalscript.com/freetools/. One of them is the PowerShell help viewer I discussed a few posts back. This is great when you’re in PowerShell and can’t remember a cmdlet’s syntax. They also have a nifty WMI explorer. This tool lets you browse all WMI namespaces on your…
Bundled Add-ons
Some of you are probably aware of the tools I’ve developed for scripting and managing your network. I offer them for sale individually on my web site. However, if you like a bargain, you can get all three tools, Disk Reporter, ExchangeMonPlus and the Scripting Assistant console at ScriptingOutpost.com. If you purchase the bundle, do…
Autographed copies of Advanced VBScript
If you haven’t picked up a copy of Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators, you can purchase autographed copies at ScriptingOutpost.com at a great price. The books are signed by Don and myself. Visit http://www.scriptingoutpost.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=BK-ADV-VBS Technorati Tags:VBScriptScripting
Search Inside Advanced VBScript for Windows
My first writing effort, Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators, has been very popular and I want to thank all of you who picked up a copy. I see now that Amazon has our book setup for Search Inside. Now you can read an excerpt, see the table of contents, index and more. If you…
Free PowerShell Help Viewer
The terrific people at SAPIEN have released a free PowerShell Help viewer. You obviously need the latest PowerShell release installed. If so, go to http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell.asp and grab the download. The tool will list all aliases, cmdlet help and the little “about” help files. If you’re like me you realize you want to look at the…
Free Sample PowerShell TFM Chapter
I should have mentioned this awhile ago, but you can get a free preview sample chapter from the new PowerShell book I’m co-writing with Don Jones at http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell.asp. We’ve moved into the tech editing phase and I think you’ll like the final product. It will be substantial enough to provide in-depth coverage that you need…
Get Active Directory User Information in PowerShell
One feature that PowerShell will likely be missing when it first ships is solid support for ADSI and working with Active Directory. You can use .NET DirectoryEntry objects but it feels more like programming and less like scripting. Another option for working with Active Directory in PowerShell is to use WMI. PowerShell does have a…
PowerShell podcast
Don Jones from ScriptingAnswers.com has a two part podcast with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft’s PowerShell architect recorded at this year’s TechEd in Boston. You can hear the podcasts and subscribe to the ScriptingAnswers Audio Network feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScriptinganswerscomAudioNetwork Technorati Tags:PowerShellScripting
Printing from PowerShell
PowerShell has a slick feature that allows you to send the output from a cmdlet or expression directly to a printer. Pipe the output to the Out-Printer cmdlet and it will print out on the default printer: get-process | out-printer If you have other printers installed you can use the printer name. For example, I…
Introduction to WMIC
WMIC – An IntroductionWindows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an extremely powerful technology that provides tremendous detail on how a computer system is configured and operating. What makes WMI so attractive to Windows administrators is that you don’t have to be a programmer to leverage it. WMI is available as a scripting option. There are many…
Use Internet Explorer in PowerShell
Here’s a PowerShell Script that demonstates how to create COM objects in PowerShell, in this case an Internet Explorer instance. The script then takes the output of the Get-Service cmdlet and writes the results to the IE window. # IEServiceList.ps1# Jeffery Hicks# http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com# http://www.jdhitsolutions.com# May 2006#Display all running services in an Internet Explorer window new-variable…