Practicing PowerShell in Helsinki
I am very happy to announce that in addition to my appearance at the MVP-AllStars conference on 9 June 2015 in beautiful Helsinki, Finland but that I will be following it with a 2 day, intense...
View ArticlePSBlogWeek Ebook and PDF Available
We really appreciate the interest in our PowerShell Blog Week experiment. It was a lot of fun and it seems many of you got something useful out of it as well. I wouldn’t be too surprised if you don’t...
View ArticleFriday Fun: Get PowerShell User Groups
The other day Don Jones tweeted about find a PowerShell user group. In case you didn’t know, just about every user group associated with PowerShell can be found online at http://powershellgroup.org....
View ArticleMore Fun Getting PowerShell User Groups
A few days ago I posted a PowerShell function to retrieve information about PowerShell user groups. That function returned basic group information like this. Each group on the site has its own page...
View ArticlePowerShell Play by Play with Don Jones
I’m very excited to tell you about this latest effort from Pluralsight. A few months ago I sat down with Don Jones, and we recorded a live course on getting started with PowerShell. The finished...
View ArticlePowerShell for Newbies
As you might imagine I get a lot of questions about how to get started with PowerShell, especially what books and material they can get their hands on. While I earn living creating books, training...
View ArticleFriday Fun: I Can Run that Command in 3 Letters
If you have been using PowerShell for any length of time, I’m sure you are familiar with aliases. An alias is an alternative name to a PowerShell cmdlet. They are intended to serve as transition aids...
View ArticleFriday Fun: A PowerShell Macro
Today’s Friday Fun is a little different in that it showcases two things I use almost every day: Microsoft Word and PowerShell. I am writing new articles and material almost daily and of course very...
View ArticleConverting Timespans to Repetition Patterns
Over on Petri.com, I’ve recently published a followup article about creating daily or weekly scheduled PowerShell jobs that support a repetition interval. The short answer is to use the Scheduled Tasks...
View ArticleFriday Fun: A Better PSEdit
In the PowerShell ISE, there is a built-in function called PSEdit. You can use this function to easily load a file in to the ISE directly from the ISE command prompt. [crayon-556e8d7ad7d7b624902910/]...
View ArticleUpdated PowerShell Formatting Functions
Last year I posted an article and a set of PowerShell functions to make it easier to format values. For some reason, I decided to revisit the functions and ended up revising and extending them. I...
View ArticleWhat Were You Working On?
It probably comes as no surprise that I write a lot of PowerShell code. Like you, I’m usually working on several projects at the same time, most often using the PowerShell ISE. When I fire up the...
View ArticleFor He’s A Jolly Good Fellow
By now I’m assuming most of you have seen or heard the news that Jeffrey Snover has been promoted for the last time and is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. I want to add my congratulations and...
View ArticlePowerShell Summit Europe 2015 Presentations
Last week I gave two presentations at the European edition of the PowerShell Summit held in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden. If you weren’t able to attend, you can still enjoy the sessions because...
View ArticleWhat’s the Weather?
I have used a PowerShell module I wrote a while ago to retrieve weather information from Yahoo.com. Yahoo offers a set of web APIs which are free to use, that will provide weather information for a...
View ArticlePowerShell Pivot Tables Revisited
A few years ago I wrote a PowerShell function to create an Excel-like pivot table in a PowerShell console. The other day I decided to revisit the function. I was surprised that it didn’t really need...
View ArticleMy Uptime PowerShell Module Published to GitHub
Earlier this year I wrote a PowerShell module to get uptime information. The module was part of a series I wrote for Petri.com. As part of my ongoing project to move some of my more interesting, and...
View ArticleHyper-V Memory Utilization with PowerShell
I really push the limits of my Hyper-V setup. I know I am constrained by memory and am hoping to expand my network before the end of the year. But in the meantime I have to keep close tabs on memory. I...
View ArticleWhere Did the Time Go?
Like many of you the work day just seems to fly by. At the end of the day I start wondering what I really got accomplished and what I actually did all day. Well if you are willing to face the truth I...
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