Posts Tagged ‘cmdlet’
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
Yes, its finally true. You can finally get your hands on Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM. The book is being printed so you can get your copy today. You can order it today at ScriptingOutpost.com in both print and ebook format. Or if you prefer the best of both worlds get both as a bundle.
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Tags: Active Directory, ADSI, cmdlet, Microsoft, powershell, Quest, SAPIENPress
Posted in Books and Training, Howto, Windows PowerShell | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
I blogged a few days ago about taking advantage of PowerShell's history. As I was looking at the history object I noticed the ExecutionStatus property. Most of the time it should be "completed". But what about commands that failed? Why not search my history buffer?
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Tags: cmdlet, Get-History, History, powershell
Posted in Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
In the Pixar film Cars, Mater demonstrates to Lightning McQueen how to drive backwards. Lightning is astounded. Mater explains, "Don't need to know where I'm going as long as I know where I've been." Probably not the exact quote but the point is if you know what you've done or where you've been it makes it very easy to know where you're going or what to do next. In PowerShell you can take advantage of the shell's history objects to speed up what you want to do next.
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Tags: cmdlet, Get-History, History, Invoke-History, powershell
Posted in Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 30th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
As you may be aware, PowerShell cmdlets are supposed to be named with a standard verb. I usually suggest that scripters name scripts and functions also using a standard verb, although it is not required and I certainly bend the rules from time to time. Hopefully by now you're saying to yourself, "Show me the verbs!"
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Tags: cmdlet, MSDN, powershell
Posted in Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
Quest Software and the PowerGUI team have been quietly working on a private beta of the new version of their popular and effective cmdlets for managing Active Directory. That process has completed and the beta is now open to the public
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Tags: Active Directory, cmdlet, powershell, Quest, scripting
Posted in Software News, Windows PowerShell | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 by Don Jones
Jeffrey Snover explains how scriptblocks can become the value for ANY cmdlet parameter. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/04/21/mindwarpingpower-cmdlets-scriptblock-parameters.aspx#comments…
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Tags: cmdlet, parameter, powershell, scriptblock
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