Blog
PowerShell WMI Tutorial Part 3 (Report Writing) Launched
Announcement March 19th 2008
The last installment of the PowerShell WMI tutorial has been launched and is now available. The PowerShell Tutorial can be found here. Enjoy the new PowerShell Training session.
Coming up next, Managing Active Directory through ADSI.
A Problem with the Microsoft Script Repository?
I enjoy the Microsoft PowerShell Script Repository and all the examples provided. I have used many of the examples within PowerShell Tutorials and Articles (including this one) written on this site. However, there is a problem with using the “Write-Host” cmdlet that has frustrated myself along with many others; I have the hate-mail to prove it!
So what is the issue that is being discussed here? You will want to read on…
Windows PowerShell Programming - For Developers
This is the first book (I know of) written for developers and programmers. I just ordered my copy…
I am confident that this book is well written as I have a number of WROX publications in my library: Beginning Active Server Pages; VBScript:Programmers Reference; Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web development; and Professional LAMP. Not ONE of my WROX books has ever found itself in the trash can…
Word to the wise… This is a programmers book and all the code is written in C#. Prerequisite: Good knowledge of both PowerShell and C# programming language.
From the Back Cover
Professional Windows PowerShell Programming
Snap-ins, Cmdlets, Hosts, and Providers
WMI Explorer : Script-O-Matic for PowerShell
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a 3 part tutorial for WMI. In my adventures to see what others have written about on the subject, I found a remarkable tool (actually a .ps1 script) written by Marc van Orsouw aka “ThePowerShellGuy.” This is a tool even Batman should have on his utility belt, it has gotten me out of a couple of jams…
How to retrieve a list of Computer Accounts from Active Directory
I've written a few posts and a couple of tutorials that discuss connecting to remote machines. For example:
In each of these articles an array is used to connect to multiple remote computers. The procedure consists of placing computer names in a text file which is then read by the "Get-Content" cmdlet which creates the array.
I've received comments and emails asking how to query Active Directory for all the computer accounts. Well, here is how we do that…