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This One Time in a PowerShell Session…Part 3 of 31: Where Did All the Good Cmdlets Go?
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In the last post I talked briefly on how to read PowerShell, now lets take a look at how to find out what can you really do with PowerShell. To start let’s take a look at all cmdlets you can do in your current PowerShell session. In a PowerShell...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 7 of 31: Conjunction Function PowerShell What Are Functions?
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This post is designed to introduce what a Function is and basic primary purpose of functions in PowerShell. Tomorrow Sarah will go into more detail on how to show the real power behind functions! For the purpose of this post I am going to...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 1 of 31: Why PowerShell?
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Welcome to the inaugural post of 31 posts during the month of May on Windows PowerShell 2.0. Sarah (my co-author extraordinaire) and I thought it would be a good idea to share some tips and insight to get you started with this fabulous tool PowerShell...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 19 of 31: Small Business Server, PowerShell, and Me
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Welcome to part 19, this post will be slightly different from the rest of the series, but Sarah and I had an interesting email come in with a comment and a suggestion from Sean. BTW Sean thank you for feedback and suggestion, and I even borrowed your...
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PowerShell Not Your Father's Command Line Part 23 of 31: HUGE Announcements, Disagreements, Best Practices and A Party…Oh My!
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Happy Monday! Alright this post will be a bit out of the usual, but how many times do you get tell folks you have a book and it is publicly available? (Technically this is my second but who is counting lol :-) So here goes: Available NOW: Automating...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 9 of 31: Another Side of PowerShell Profiles
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In some previous posts we talked about how to add functionality through importing modules , or adding aliases and functions This allowed you to temporarily configure your PowerShell session to work the way you needed for that session. However,...
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This One Time in a PowerShell Session…Part 2 of 31: The Basics on How to Read PowerShell
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One of the great things about PowerShell is the language is designed to be read and easy to understand. PowerShell does not use some esoteric lingo or new words to describe the objects you work with in the shell, it uses common language and terms. For...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 21 of 31: Knock Knock PowerShell Calling!
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Knock, Knock Who's there? Sarah. Sarah who? Sa-rah phone I could use? In PowerShell 1.0 remoting was much like my joke, there was no direct way to have a remote PowerShell session. You may have used remote desktop services or other methods to access...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 11 of 31: PowerShell Providers and You!
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One of the great areas you can do a lot of work in PowerShell is with providers. Providers are little .NET programs built-in to PowerShell that allow you to work with data structures that are not typically easy to access in the command prompt. PowerShell...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 20 of 31: Hanging With Hyper-V
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When Windows Server 2008 R2 was initially released there was no Hyper-V module for PowerShell to work directly with the Hyper-V role. You could work with Hyper-V via the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). While WMI provides an invaluable component...
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Check Out Talk TechNet every Wed. and Friday!
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Talk TechNet is a twice weekly, one hour radio show for IT Professionals hosted by Senior Program Manager Keith Combs and myself. Each episode focuses on a specific product or technology. Listeners are encouraged to call in and discuss the topic...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 13 of 31: The Provider Active Directory Style
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In the last couple of posts we have taken a look at working with providers and using the registry provider . In this post we are going to use a provider near and dear to networks everywhere, the Active Directory provider. Working with the...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 17 of 31: Who Wants to Manage Active Directory?
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In part 13, I mentioned how to work with the provider for Active Directory (AD) . I also mentioned the preferred way to work with AD is with the built-in PowerShell cmdlets. In this post we are going to take a quick look at where the cmdlets are located...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 18 of 31: So You Deleted A User…On Purpose
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We have all been here before. Maybe you have deleted a user either accidentally or on purpose. Regardless you may need to get the user back with all of their properties, group memberships, security identifiers..etc. In prior versions...
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PowerShell Not Your Father's Command Line Part 31 of 31: That’s a Wrap and We are Not Done Yet!
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank you Thank You! I cannot say thank you to all of you following this series on the blog. Thanks for the email, suggestions and most importantly thank you for your support. Sarah and I greatly appreciate...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line part 4 of 31: Who Ya Gonna Call For Help?
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Being able to call for help is important to how you learn PowerShell. So who do you call? When you press the universal help key (F1) in a PowerShell session nothing happens (unless you are in the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) more...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 16 of 31: PowerShell Take Me Out To The Grid
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With PowerShell 2.0 there are some nice GUI features to help leverage PowerShell in some new and interesting ways. In yesterday’s post Sarah showed you the ISE works . In this post I want to take a quick look at another GUI feature of PowerShell...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 6 of 31: A Cmdlet By Any Other Name Would Be An Alias
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One of the great things about PowerShell cmdlets is you can give them any name you want them to have using a feature called aliases. More importantly there are several built-in aliases in PowerShell allowing you to leverage your command prompt knowledge...
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PowerShell Not Your Father's Command Line Part 24 of 31: PowerShell Did What!?!? How to Mitigate Risk!
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Have you ever had the moment, and it is usually right after you hit the enter key, that OMG what I have done moment. That please, please stop moment. Followed by the pounding of fists, weeping, and a whole lot of NO NO NO as your c: drive...
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PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line Part 29 of 31: Demystifying MSDN and PowerShell static syntax
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Sarah has been doing a great job the last few posts on community. In response to a community question she received on one of her posts, she decided to change the topic on her post. The questions she received: But how does an ITPro without...
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PowerShell Not Your Father’s Command Line Part 14 of 31: Sorry I’m Not Home Right Now, Walking into IIS Webs…
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In the last few posts we have been talking about providers , for the registry and for AD . In today’s post Sarah takes a look at the IIS Provider ( with a sprinkling of No Doubt ), and and great and easy things you can with PowerShell and IIS take...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 12 of 31: PowerShell and The Registry
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In yesterday’s post we took a look a quick look at providers . In this post we are going to take a look at the registry. Before I begin with this post I do have to give you the standard warning. Working with and modifying the registry...
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PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line Part 10 of 31: PowerShell Protecting You From Yourself
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In yesterday’s post on profiles you saw how PowerShell prevented the profile script from loading and how to get around the message. The security message you saw was from the PowerShell script execution policy setting and shows how PowerShell is...
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PowerShell Not Your Father's Command Line Part 25 of 31: Did You Know PowerShell Can Talk VMware?
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Yup you saw that right PowerShell can be used to manage and work with your VMware environment. Specifically you use the PowerCLI when you want to manage your VMware vSphere environments. PowerCLI is a very popular third-party implementation of PowerShell...
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