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Want a Free PowerShell Editor? No, Really it’s Free…
PowerShell Tools PowerGui
I’ve been searching for a PowerShell editor to free me from writing my code in notepad. I’ve tried a number of them on the market, Primal Script by far was the best! Yet, my 45-day trial was over and my boss is dragging his feet with a purchase. So where do I turn?
Shell Tools was nice, yet another 45-day trial (they extended it another 45-days) yet eventually leading to a purchase. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a tight-wad I’m a Tech (o.k. same thing…). I just wanted a simple editor which I found in the last place I thought I would ever look… A GUI Tool for PowerShell.
PowerShell Pro! adopted the philosophy of “teach an man person to fish…” so you would think that promoting a tool that “does the work for you” would be sacrilegious. Not being close minded, I ventured a download and began working with the tool. There were two major findings that prompted me to write this article…
How to become a DIMM-wit!
I was going through the mail-bag the other day and noticed the same question kept popping up. "How do I know how much memory is in my system?" I thought to myself, that question is too easy to answer and the PowerShell solution has to be available on at least a few thousand websites. But, in my haste to get through the mail the actual question was not sinking into my thick skull…
I was reading "How much memory" not "How much memory is installed in my system and how many DIMM slots do I have available?" Great question! Wouldn't it be nice to run a PowerShell Script that would give you the amount of RAM installed and the available slots in the system. How many of you still shut the server down, open the box, and inventory the DIMM count? Well those days are over…
New Tutorial - Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell
PowerShellPro.com has launched a new PowerShell tutorial - Managing Active Directory. The new tutorial can be found here.
Enjoy!
-Jesse Hamrick
Learn how to utilize .Net Objects in PowerShell
I’ve received a number of requests to do a PowerShell tutorial on .NET, which I will. Most of us who have been scripting in Window’s Shell and VBScript have not yet been exposed to working with .NET Objects. We’ve read that PowerShell is founded on the .NET Framework and cmdlets use .NET Objects, yet there really is not a simple resource available for understanding .NET, until now!!!
Introducing the PowerShell book you have been waiting for: Windows PowerShell Professional. I bought this book for one reason and one reason only! Chapter 14 - Working with .NET. The chapter was everything I though it would be. The .NET Framework is so vast, even the author agrees, that it is better to teach a man to fish… That is exactly what Andrew Watt does. For example, tools like WMI CIM Studio allows us to find and utilize WMI Classes, Properties, and Methods. He explains how we can utilize .NET Framework SDK and Visual Studio to locate and work with the .NET classes. He provides simple examples and explanations working with properties and methods of a .NET class.
VMWare VI Toolkit 1.0 Beta (for PowerShell)
March 14th 2008, VMWare launches the beta release of the VI Toolkit. I'm actually excited about this release as I manage a large ESX environment with over 100 VMs. The VI Toolkit provides 102 custom cmdlets written for ESX and VirtualCenter. So what can I do with these new cmdlets?