Microsoft recently migrated blogs.technet.com and blogs.msdn.com to an updated platform.  So you’ll notice a lot of changes to everyone’s blog since Monday afternoon.  We all probably look the same, with the vanilla theme.  I suppose it...

I was helping someone out in a Technet Forum thread recently, and learned something new about filtering objects with a NULL NoteProperty using the Command Shell –Criteria expression filter. Initially, I was thinking in terms of Where-Object, which works...

This question has come up in more than a few conversations and threads, and in this particular thread I promised that I’d write a post to cover this. I think the fundamental reason why many are bewildered by the fact that we “cannot”...

I’ve seen this question come up more than a few times in the forums and from customers, so I thought I’d do a quick post on when and why we should use –Criteria expression rather than a Where-Object clause in our Command Shell scripts. First, the –Criteria...

I was having a blast with XPath today, and discovered an interesting little tidbit.  I was working on a custom write action which writes event data to the Application log.  Then another alert rule monitored for this event, and generating an...

I recently posted an walk-thru about how to create a computer group , so I figured a demonstration on how to create an instance group was in order. I mentioned that it is a best practice to create at least one computer group in your management pack in...