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'Casting' an Object Spell in PowerShell

One handy PowerShell trick is to tell the engine to treat something as a particular type of object.

Pop Quiz: System Center 2012: Service Delivery and Automation of a Private Cloud

Applies to the "Design and Deploy System Center" objective of Exam 70-247.

Fanfare for the Common Parameter Part 4: Outbuffer

There is one more common parameter you might need or want to use to control this buffering behavior. It is called –Outbuffer.

Pop Quiz: Clean Up Active Directory

Applies to the "Configure and Manage Active Directory" objective of Exam 70-417.

Fanfare for the Common Parameter Part 3: Success

The third part of the common parameter series will look at saving PowerShell commands.

Fanfare for the Common Parameter Part 2: Error

Part two of this how-to series will look at how to deal with error-related parameters in PowerShell.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Deploying NAP 802.1X

Applies to the "Configure a Network Policy Server Infrastructure" objective of Exam 70-417.

Fanfare for the Common Parameter Part 1

The first part of this series will focus on identifying some common attributes.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Configuring Direct Access Infrastructure

Applies to the “Configure Network Servers and Access” objective of Exam 70-417.

It's In the Mail Part 2: Sending Rich Messages

Part two will focus on how to send HTML messages through PowerShell

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V Extensible Switch Configuration

Applies to the "Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Servers" objective of Exam 70-417.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Global Catalog Servers

Applies to the "Install and Administer Active Directory"objective of Exam 70-417.

It's In the Mail Part 1: Sending PowerShell Data via E-Mail

It is very easy to get a lot of information out of PowerShell. But sometimes it isn't as easy to get it where it needs to be.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V VLANs

Applies to the "Configure Hyper-V" objective of Exam 70-417.

WMI CIM-plified Part 6: Tips and Tricks

Over the course of the last few lessons we've exploring the new world of the CIM cmdlets introduced in PowerShell 3.0.

WMI CIM-plified Part 5: WSMAN Protocol

Next up in Jeff's six-part WMI series, he demonstrates how to call up WMI methods.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Server Core Roles and Features

Applies to the "Configure Server Roles and Features" objective of Exam 70-417.

WMI CIM-plified Part 4: Remote to Second PowerShell

The fourth part of the CIM cmdlets blog series focuses on creating a duplicate CIM session on a different PowerShell unit.

Pop Quiz: Windows Server 2012: Migration Tools

Applies to the "Install and Configure Servers" objective of Exam 70-417.

WMI CIM-plified Part 3: Remote Systems Management

Remote systems management is where it gets interesting for CIM in PowerShell 3.0.

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