Comments on: PowerShell Parameters, Objects, and Formatting

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:13:24 +0000

Thank you really for this awsome work. I was thinking I never will learn this.

But you use so easy words and examples and you also explain all this things.

If you visit Vienna, you have a free beer with me

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:32 +0000

I get an error when I run…

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ScheduledJob -Namespace root\CIMV2 | Get-Member

The error is… Get-Member : No object has been specified to the get-member cmdlet.

I am running PowerShell gui ver 3.0.0.2015

Thanks,
Tony

By: MK

MK — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:49:04 +0000

Ahhh:

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “stopped”}

But there must be a cleaner way to display just one parameter of an object…

By: MK

MK — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:04:53 +0000

Howdy!

Thanks very much for this tutorial. I am having a good time with it.

I am trying to go a bit off the page between things and keep getting stuck though.

I start with listing the base cmdlets:
get-command

OK, then I get running a command through get-member to see the attributes of the object:
say I select get-service
get-service|get member

Now, how do I create a list of services where say for example Status=running?

I can already see this is going to be a very useful tool. I just have a whole lot of learning to do!

By: JD

JD — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:25:09 +0000

Cybertek,

If automation is what you are after PS is the way to go. I am desktop support for a mid-large company and anything that I need to do more than twice goes straight into Power Shell. Makes my job easier and has increased productivity.

As for a beginner’s textbook, have a look at “learn power shell in a month of lunches” Don Jones

Hope it helps.

By: Cybertek

Cybertek — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:52:52 +0000

I am an absolute beginner to PowerShell. I have dabbled with Visual Basic, and work some with cmd.exe. I have always wanted to learn a scripting language, but I want to learn the most powerful, most versatile scripting language around. I help manage an IT Staff as an analyst for the military. I do not have direct domain controller access, but I do understand Domains, OU’s, sites, and such.
I would like to say thanks? Your effort in helping the beginner is commendable, I am interested in learning this language, mostly because it is very versatile and so usable. Are there many uses for scripts at the local desktop level, or that we can use to make our job easier? We service support an entire command, and so many tasks that we do could be automated if one of us knew a decent scripting language. Is PowerShell that language, especially since we are transitioning from XP to 7?

Can you suggest a good textbook for the absolute beginner?
Thanks for helping the folks that are unsure which way to go? SALUTE!

By: garryman

garryman — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:27:20 +0000

Excellent tutorials…..Easy to follow and keeps me interested….I especially like the convertTo-html cmdlet! …..Next chapter….

By: alencdave

alencdave — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:49:45 +0000

I ran the following and get output as expected :
>> Get-Command | Format-Table

But I was not able to convert it to HTML proeprly , I wrote the following

>> Get-Command | Format-Table | ConvertTo-HTML | Out “PS-Command.html”

though it is creating PS-Comand.Html file but output is not same.

Would ypu please explain How to use Format cmdlets and ConvertTo-HTML together?

By: Srinivas

Srinivas — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:16:25 +0000

It’s really excellent

By: Gan

Gan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:41:11 +0000

Good one.I made some progress today