Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks: WMI, CIM and PSWA WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is the basic way of querying and changing basic information about any windows server, including SQL... 28 May 2015 12 min read
Michael Sorens A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls: Part 2 There are some pitfalls in PowerShell for the unwary. Many people who are learning PowerShell come across quirks that can... 12 May 2015 16 min read
Nicolas Prigent Automating Day-to-Day PowerShell Admin Tasks – Jobs and Workflow If you are aiming to optimise the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you... 13 April 2015 13 min read
Michael Sorens A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls PowerShell has some very valuable features, but it is a mistake to believe that all those skills that you've derived... 02 April 2015 19 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Checking program flow Pester offers a relatively small number of commands to Unit-test PowerShell scripts, but these commands have tremendous capabilities. Pester even... 05 November 2014 16 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Mock Objects Pester allows you to automate the testing of PowerShell scripts. It can test the output of a function as you... 04 November 2014 17 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Getting Started By the time you're using PowerShell to automate an increasing amount of the system administration, database maintenance, or application-lifecycle work,... 03 November 2014 19 min read
Phil Factor Getting Data Into and Out of PowerShell Objects You can execute PowerShell code that creates the data of an object, but there is no cmdlet to generate the... 21 October 2014 12 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Accessing, Handling and Writing Data In the grand finale to Michael Sorens' series of PowerShell one-liners, we come to the handling of data, reading it... 05 June 2014 18 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Collections, Hashtables, Arrays and Strings The way to learn PowerShell is to browse and nibble, rather than to sit down to a formal five-course meal.... 13 May 2014 20 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Variables, Parameters, Properties, and Objects PowerShell isn't a conventional language, though it draws inspiration widely. Many people learn it, and use it, best by collecting... 24 April 2014 18 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Help, Syntax, Display and Files PowerShell is designed to be used by busy IT professionals who want to get things done, and don't necessarily enjoy... 04 April 2014 16 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell Data Basics: XML To master PowerShell, you must know how to use XML. XML is an essential data interchange format because it remains... 03 January 2014 13 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell Data Basics: File-Based Data One of the frustrations of anyone beginning with PowerShell is the simple task of getting data in and out. To... 03 December 2013 25 min read
Joseph Moody Managing Active Directory with PowerShell For the busy administrator of a windows domain, any regular task or housekeeping process should be automated, and the Cmdlets... 11 November 2013 12 min read
Michael Sorens How To Document Your PowerShell Library PowerShell provides comment-based help for functions and scripts with Get-Help, but when you want to document modules or generate a... 25 June 2013 16 min read
Joseph Moody Getting Better Mileage by Extending Active Directory Users and Computers Active Directory has more uses than it is usually credited with. The 'Active Directory Users and Computers' console can even... 15 February 2013 8 min read
Sean Duffy Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell A combination of PowerShell and HTML can provide the basis of an easily-scanned report on the basic state of a... 16 March 2012 20 min read
PowerShell Sean Duffy in PowerShell Disk Space Monitoring and Early Warning with PowerShell Sean Duffy recently had an unwelcome encounter with Exchange Server Back Pressure, which cut off his message flow due to... 15 August 2011 11 min read
Jonathan Medd An Introduction to PowerShell Modules For PowerShell to provide specialised scripting, especially for administering server technologies, it can have the range of Cmdlets available to... 11 March 2011 15 min read
