Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

Sean "The Energized Tech and Please don't name the Gerbil Cmdlet" Kearney — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:31:40 GMT

@socaldavis My love affair with Powershell has gotten me into a LOT of trouble. It truly is a tool we fall in love with because we need so little to make it useful.

@plindgren I tried to sneak that into a casual Friday, but I'm pretty certain somebody would have countered that with a pink slip ;)

@dawn Great Example of using ExpandProperty. Really when you get down to it, all it does it pull the information out (all we want) and give it to us without a descriptive field.

If anybody sees a small Gerbil running about singing "Highway to Powershell", tell him his music contract is still up for negotiation :)

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

SoCalDavis — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:21:58 GMT

@Dawn Villejoin

Awesome! Thank you very much for that information/example! I have totally fallen in love with Powershell - we use it here at work pretty heavily, as well as me at home (learning).

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

Dawn Villejoin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:55:36 GMT

@SoCalDavis

Another good use of the -ExpandProperty parameter is when one of the properties contains an array of items...

Instead of getting the "array", you get a list of each item in the array.

For instance, if I did:

Get-Service winrm | select ServicesDependedOn

I get the following output:

ServicesDependedOn

------------------

{HTTP, RPCSS}

BUT if I did:

Get-Service winrm | select -ExpandProperty ServicesDependedOn

I get this output, which can be much more helpful depending on what I wanted to find out:

Status Name DisplayName

------ ---- -----------

Running HTTP HTTP

Running RPCSS Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

Powershell is so versatile :)

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

SoCalDavis — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:08:24 GMT

Oh wait, I think I just figured out - testing it with the example in the above blog post gives me the answer...lol... If you didn't use -expandproperty, you would get the property name in the results as well... with -expandproperty, you only get the data in the column (Hope I said it right - please feel free to correct it) :)

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

SoCalDavis — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:06:00 GMT

Great info... I still haven't figured out exactly what the -expandproperty parameter of select-object is used for... read some help on it, and still confused. I'm going to continue reading, and testing examples out... thanks again for the info.

re: Expert Commentary: 2012 Scripting Games Beginner Event 6

plindgren — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:46:34 GMT

I sincerely hope the kraken looks like that on casual friday's