June 2008 - Posts
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.com/Media/Powershell-tips-and-tricks-from-the-field-with-Ben-Pearce/
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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 Server
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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 I used
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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: Gwmi –namespace
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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 have already
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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 then writes
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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 simple command
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