The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/31/2012
Dell added to its partnership with Microsoft (and VMware) on "private cloud" technologies by announcing a new hardware product designed to host as many as 200 virtual machines.
PowerShell can dig up information on processes pretty easily. It's all in the FileVersion property.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/24/2012
A hands-on look at using App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager for private cloud deployments.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the availability of all eight System Center 2012 solutions as release candidates available for testing.
PowerShell 3 makes some much-needed improvements to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/17/2012
When looking for cmdlet help, PowerShell 3 goes beyond version 2 with an Update-Help cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/09/2012
Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 will have a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with NTFS.
Let's start off 2012 with a tip I learned just recently: Using the PowerShell $FormatEnumerationLimit variable to customize the number of entries viewable via the Dir command.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/05/2012
Windows Update didn't update my Windows servers like it's supposed to, so here's the process I went through to get my servers back up to speed.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 12/23/2011
Here's something nifty: you don't have uninstall PowerShell 2 to use version 3.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/20/2011
PowerShell 3 adds new console redirection operators for streaming pipeline output.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/13/2011
Sometimes the standby command-line or resource kit tools work best. Still, there is a way to use information from those tools with further processing in PowerShell and this command helps.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/06/2011
Microsoft released a community technology preview 2 version of Windows Management Framework 3.0 this month, and it included the newest PowerShell.
Go GUI-less and avoid the Get-Credential cmdlet's dialog with this helpful script for supplying alternative credentials.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/15/2011