Hi Everyone I’ve written an  article for the The Scripting Guy blog on how to use PowerShell to patch VHD and WIM image files.  Check it out! http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/11/14/use-powershell-to-patch-vhd-and-wim-image...

This article is a step by step guide on how to identify how much data each process is writing to disk. It’s particularly relevant for VDI installations, but also applies to physical Windows 7 installations. If you are using Windows 7 as a VDI client,...

Hi All Last month we released the Hyper-V Best Practice Analyser . I was interested to see what checks/rules the Best Practice Analyser made and used, so I started digging around. Because the Hyper-V Best Practice Analyser is based on the standard...

Hi All I`m regularly asked what resources I would recommend to people who want to develop their PowerShell scripting skills. So I’ve worked with some of my colleagues to create a list of resources that we regularly point people to. There are absolutely...

Hi All I had the pleasure of speaking at Tech Ed EMEA this year on the subject "Managing Large Infrastructures with PowerShell v2". I co-presented the session with Jeffrey Snover and a recording of this session has been uploaded to the microsoft site...

Hi All I met Jonathan Medd at Tech Ed EMEA this year and he kindly invited me to be interviewed for his PowerShell podcast. If you would like to listen to the podcast it's here: http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/12/get-scripting-podcast-episode...

Scripting Hyper-V with WMI and PowerShell Part 1 – Introduction + Querying State Introduction When it comes to scripting Hyper-V there are really 2 methods: 1. Using the virtualization WMI provider that ships with Hyper-V. 2. Using the...

Hi All I got kidnapped by the Tech Net Edge guys whilst I was at Tech Ed the other week, and intereviewed about the PowerShell and WMI session that I was presenting there. If you'd like to see the interview in full it's here: http://edge.technet...

Hi All Sometimes you just want a new Domain created quickly for a bit of testing. Given that Windows 2008 ships with server core, a light footprint version of the OS, it’s ideal for being the domain controller. As I am fairly inexperienced with...

Finally, here is the last demo. Demo 5 – Administering Failover Clustering I have already written a detailed post, and a similar script on this subject, here . However, I promised all the demos would be on my blog, so attached is the exact script...

So here is Demo 4 – Administering Hyper-V I am planning to put more posts on my blog, looking at this subject in more depth, so stay tuned for more in depth demos. This was is what I demo’d at Tech Ed 2008. Notice the namespace that is used: ...

Ola Demo 3 – How Do I Know Which Classes to Use In this demo I firstly used WMI Browser, which provides a GUI that can be used to visually display WMI information. That can be downloaded from here: I then browsed for classes in PowerShell. I...

Bonjour Bonjour It’s time for Demo 2 – Administering Servers in Bulk. I’ve attached the 4 scripts that I used. Demo 2 – Administering Servers in Bulk BulkServers1.ps1 – This script reads in a text file, containing 1 server per line. It simply...

Hello Again Well I’ve delivered my session “Windows, PowerShell and WMI: Unveiling Microsoft’s Best Kept Secret”, and as promised here are the scripts for the Demo’s I used during my session: Demo 1 – Administering Windows All these demos are...

Ladies and Gents Many months ago I posted a script on how to search a namespace for different classes. The post is here A common question I then get asked is “How do I know what WMI namespaces are installed on a system?” The answer is not immediately...

Hi All Some of you may of heard about this already, but it's recently been announced that PowerShell will be in the Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria for 2009. What is the Common Engineering Criteria? The Common Engineering Criteria is a set of criteria...

Hi All I had the pleasure of presenting a joint session at the PowerShell UK User Group this week. I presented a joint session with Jeremy Peck from HP on an Introduction to SCVMM and scripting it with PowerShell. I have attached my slide deck from...

Hello Everybody Sorry for the huge delay in posting anything, I promise I will never leave it so long again. I got asked a question the other day. Can I use Get-EventLog to access all the new logs that are in Vista? Which logs am I referring...

Hello I hate writing up scripts. Writing the scripts themselves is great, it’s just explaining them after which is really boring J Here is the second demo script I used last week, Create-ChildVM.ps1. This script is invaluable if you need to quickly...

Hello Everyone As promised, attached is the first fo the demo scripts that I used at the “Scripting Virtual Server with PowerShell” session I ran. I`m not going to go through the whole script but here is an over view and bit more detail on a few key...

Bonjour Bonjour Last night I was kindly invited to speak at the PowerShell UK User Group meeting. The subject I delivered was "Scripting Virtual Server with PowerShell". I was asked if I could post my slide deck, so here it is in both pptx and ppt...

Ladies and Gents A lot people have been asking me: “How do I know if there is a WMI provider for xxxx?”. Quite often a quick search in live.com will get you the results, but there is a way of searching WMI from within PowerShell. I have created a really...

Ladies + Gents This week I have had the privilege of working at TechEd 2007. I’ve been on the PowerShell demo stand in the Technical Learning Centre and talking to what feels like most of the 12000 attendees about how cool PowerShell is. It probably...

So Guys + Gals As well as writing PowerShell scripts and running a PowerShell course here in the UK, I spend a lot of time looking at clusters. I go to customers and run a cluster health check to make sure that their cluster adheres to best practices...

Hello Again This is my third post in the Active Directory and PowerShell series. In this post I want to talk about how to create your own pseudo-cmdlets to manage the AD. I`m going to talk about how to present scripts to PowerShell that behave in a...