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Comment on PowerShell Tutorials by Tom Cross

Tom Cross — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:23:02 +0000

Thank you very much for the tutorials you supplied for NO CHARGE.
If people want to complain about you not putting them in order, I’m sure they can write their own tutorials on how not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Thanks again for the effort you went to and provide the wider community with this help.

Comment on How to Send Alerts to Your Mailbox using .NET by Kevin Marquette

Kevin Marquette — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:49:31 +0000

This is a great example of how to send emails from Powershell.

You should offer your colleague version 2 of the script where you just delete the file for him.

Comment on PowerShell Parameters, Objects, and Formatting by 317

317 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:24:24 +0000

can’t find the “Turn light bulb On” method
=P

Comment on PowerShell Scripting with WMI Part 3 by Huijari

Huijari — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:23:23 +0000

I think that for most applications using write-output in the script and piping the script to Tee-Object (ie. the original bios script with write-hosts replaced by write-outputs and then .\bios.ps1 | Tee-Object my_output.txt) would suffice in getting the output both to screen and to a file. I’m not sure whether the Tee-Object commandlet was available at the time of the writing of this tutorial, but at least now it is Coming from unix, “tee” was the first thing that popped into my mind while reading this and sure enough there was a similar commandlet available. See Get-Help Tee-Object. Cheers!

Comment on Windows PowerShell Console by Vim@l

Vim@l — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:50:34 +0000

Nicely documented…

Comment on PowerShell Tutorials by Duncan Drury

Duncan Drury — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:43:49 +0000

Is there a good reason not to list the tutorials in order in the menu? Surely that would take ten minutes or less. Why make it hard?

Comment on How to become a DIMM-wit! by Ed Hartmann

Ed Hartmann — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:02:13 +0000

The script shown does not use the correct syntax for ForEach.
Here is the correct syntax:

$colSlots | ForEach {“Total Number of DIMM Slots: ” + $_.MemoryDevices}

$colRAM | ForEach {
“Memory Installed: ” + $_.DeviceLocator
“Memory Size: ” + ($_.Capacity / 1GB) + ” GB”

reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347608.aspx

Comment on Windows PowerShell Cmdlet by Frank

Frank — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:42:15 +0000

Excellent PS tutorial for this beginner. Thanks

Works with Win7 if you start PS with RunAs Administrator

Comment on Variables, Arrays, and Hash Tables by Alasdair Carnie

Alasdair Carnie — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:23:20 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to set the ip address of an array of hosts using two arrays. Array 1 has the host names and array 2 has the IP addresses. I tried using a for each loop but I can’t figure out how to get the information from the second array into the loop. I then tried a regular for loop and then a do loop, but I can’t get the code to work with the values for the second array.

Any help would be appreciated.

Comment on Windows PowerShell Cmdlet by Bill

Bill — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:37:11 +0000

Hi,

Please specify what version of powershell the tutorial is for. Thank you.