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Richard Siddaway

MVP renewal 2013

This afternoon I received the email notifying me that my MVP award had been renewed for another year. Thank you to Microsoft ““ I regard the award as a great honour. And thank you to the PowerShell community ““ its a great place to be

Richard Siddaway

Shutting down a remote computer

PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I"™ll have several machines running but won"™t necessarily have logged onto them. Using Stop-Computer means that I can shut them down cleanly …

Richard Siddaway

CIM cmdlets

The CIM cmdlets are found in the CIMcmdlets module. Get-Command -Module CimCmdlets produces this list of names. I"™ve added some information on the tasks they perform Get-CimAssociatedInstance is for working with WMI associated classes Get-CimClass is for discovering the properties and methods …

Richard Siddaway

WMI vs CIM

An email debate yesterday regarding the use of the CIM cmdlets (new in PowerShell 3) vs the WMI cmdlets made me realise that other people are probably wondering the same thing, The question is really part of a the semi-philosophical debate about when you should adopt new technology. In the case of …

Richard Siddaway

Network Adapters"“Disable/Enable

Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a Name InterfaceDescription Status —- ——————– —— Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Up WiFi Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter Up If you look …

Don Jones
Scripting Games

Announcing Winter Scripting Camp Winners

I know, this took forever. Mea culpa. I’ve been working my shell off, and finally got around to pulling the info. Beginner Track Wouter Beens (4.667) Laurel Raven (4.5) Chris Davis (4.5) Advanced Track Alexander Kuzin (4.5) Lido Paglia (4.5) (anonymous) (4) Those are the average scores from …