Not too long ago, over on DonJones.com, I wrote an article that tried to explain some of the confusion between Microsoft’s World of Management Instrumentation - e.g., WMI, OMI, CIM, and a bunch of other acronyms. I glossed over some of the finer details, and this article is intended to provide …
Doug Finke has written an awesome article - complete with a module! - to help get data into Excel spreadsheets.
When Microsoft first released the DSC Resource Kit (in Wave 10 as of this writing), they opened the door to community contributions. Our own PowerShell.org GitHub repo consists partly of DSC resource that used Microsoft’s code as a baseline, and then corrected problems or expanded …
The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Tuesday, April 28th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The first half hour will be for socializing, pizza, and playing pool at our coffee bar. Agenda: 6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing 6:30 – 7:30: Presentation 7:30 - 8:00: Q & A Please note that the Webex …
Every IT pro needs a lab. It’s not just the fact that we all have a little mad scientist in us, it’s a playground for experimentation and learning. By “lab” I do not mean a formal test or dev environment, but a much more informal setting that typically goes before the “dev” part gets started. This …
Updated : October 01, 2015 ** Question **: What is the fastest solution to count all the users in Active Directory domain? ** Answer **: To answer this question, I will compare 17 different commands in a domain with 75 000 users. `[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers() [System.GC]::Collect() …
The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Thursday, March 6th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The first half hour will be for socializing, pizza, and playing pool at our coffee bar. Registration: EventBrite You must register to attend in person. Agenda: 6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing 6:30 – 7:30: …
The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Thursday, January 8th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. If interested, please register through the Eventbrite website to track attendance for ordering pizza. For those attending online (Webex) we will send a follow-up email with the meeting link based on …
At the 2nd of October, Lee Holmes gave a presentation about the current and future state of the Windows Management Framework (WMF) during the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) at the Microsoft headquarters in The Netherlands. The slide decks and recorded videos will be made available soon, but …
Aside from classes and new DSC features, which I’ve already written about, there are a number of less-headline, but still-very-awesome, new capabilities. This article is based on the September 2014 preview release of WMF 5.0. Information is highly subject to change. First up is the **ability …
