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I mentioned a problem with 64bit Powershell in my previous post: 3 snap-ins I've wanted to use have been packed for 32 bit and didn't work "out of the box" on 64 bit, so I thought I'd give a generic guide to making snapins...
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I have been saying for ages that most IT professionals really don't give two hoots about Open-XML. It's a file format. Who cares ? The old file format had been around for ages, and was pretty opaque, so hardly anyone dug into it. The new format...
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I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day"...
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If you've read my post on adding disks to a Virtual machine , the techniques here should already feel familiar. We create a NIC , and we create a switch port. And then we tell the NIC it is connected to the switch port. Hyper-V creates VM switches...
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In an earlier post in this series (several posts ago now) I showed how I could use the Msvm_virtualSystemManagementService WMI object can be used to Configure resources in Hyper-V, and I started with the easy step of setting with memory and CPUs which...
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Please excuse the bad pun... When I first wrote the function I posted to display the state of virtual machines , I used a construction which has been familiar to programmers since time immemorial. If X=1 output this If X=2 output that etc Most modern...
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In my last post I explained how snapshots work and gave a little bit of PowerShell for creating a one . In the post before that I talked about creating a generic choose-tree function. What I wanted was to be able to call Choose-tree List_Of_Items...
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The machine is running quite happily and has never been snapped. Late on Monday make a snapshot. This does two things 1.If the Machine is running or in a saved state we make a copy of memory 2. We stop writing changes to its VHD and start writing changes...
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... In which we find VMs, them choose one, start them, stop them , and connect to them. I spent more of the last week than I planned looking at Hyper-V and Powershell, and I'm getting dangerously close to calling myself an expert. There are two WMI...
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This is, I'm afraid, another of those "Wow! what can you do with a couple of long lines of PowerShell" posts. I wanted to create a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file for PowerGadgets' OUT-MAP cmdlet to do UK county maps. PowerGadgets, as I discovered...
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Eileen phoned me from a traffic jam yesterday. "I've got a demon in the car" she said. A little late for a technical person Eileen has joined the world of Sat Nav owners and her characterization of hers put me in mind of the personal Dis-organizer...
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–I referred to the PowerShell Community extensions in the last post. It's interesting, but not especially surprising to find that The Community can do some pretty cool stuff. A Community effort can encompass a lot of things, at the price of lacking...
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I try not to stand still when I'm presenting; stand behind a lectern for too long and you end up holding onto it , staring down and droning on to your PC. Radio Mics and the wireless presenter mouse give the freedom to stroll around the stage to my hearts...
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It's only 7 months since I first installed Powershell. Hard to believe that last week I saw a copy of the OCS res kit with my name on the cover as a result of the PowerShell scripts I wrote, and worth remembering before criticizing other people's scripts...
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I've been waiting for this for a little while, in fact I had hoped to see a draft before it went public (although I wonder if that actually falls foul of the rules on not having "Secret" APIs). I could see the WMI providers from Powershell but working...
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I guess the thing I like best about PowerShell its ability to make the business of getting stuff on the screen so easy. I've used format-List and Format-Table a lot. And looking for something else I'd come across the "Write-progress" cmdlet. Now ... I...
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First to explain the title: Sooner or later I will stop banging on about hot-desking and the bedlam which is our office area - last week it did seem to plumb new depths with one team sitting round a speaker phone in the open plan office yelling into a...
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If you're a regular reader you may know that I've been doing quite a lot of stuff with powershell of late, and Ive mentioned that I'm helping with some of the utilities for the the OCS resource Kit. One of the questions I got asked was "Can we have a...
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I said when I posted about fixing the phone numbers in your Outlook Contacts that I'd come back and do the same thing for Active Directory. Richard told people to look out for that, so no pressure to get it done then... Using the Active Directory Services...
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Having mentioned Powershell in several recent posts, I said in passing I'd discovered that it had a Get-EventLog cmdlet I also talked about the problems I was having with sleep - or more to the point the machine waking up and running till it crashed,...
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Peter sent me a mail last week suggesting a blog post. "You mentioned in http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2007/02/21/the-campaign-for-real-numbers.aspx that a transport rule would be cool. Whislt I'm not yet a E2K7 user, wouldn't it be good if...
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