Plus: Mobile attacks still in a learning curve, Facebook hole exposes private photos of members.
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
Some 13 years later, Microsoft has released the first preview of an ODBC driver for Linux.
Plus: One dumb hacker tries to blackmail his way into a job; FBI cracks down on counterfeit merchandise online.
Hadoop support at Microsoft is deep enough to have them abandoning LINC to HPC.
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
Thanks to the cloud, SQL Server development is about to get cheaper.
There's power in defining constants, even in PowerShell. Check out this week's tip.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/07/2011
PowerShell can help you retrieve collections of objects or services, or just a unique subset of information. Let's look at a few cmdlets that can help you narrow your focus.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/01/2011
Seven quick and totally random but useful tips that might save you some work as you migrate over to the current OS.
Hey, SQL Server developers! You can get onto Amazon's cloud.
I advise against it. But if you must use a logon script to authenticate, here's how to get it done with PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/25/2011
The ties that bind are not so easily severed, especially between the teams who are developing these two platforms.
PowerShell's object nature is fine most of the time, but sometimes we need to dig deep and use the Split and Join operators to break apart strings and put them back together again.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/18/2011
Microsoft isn't always the slow-moving dinosaur, but the visionary. Witness its work with SQL Azure beating Google and Apple to data-laden cloud.
Here's a way to get beyond the usual looking into file properties and time stamps and start changing them.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/11/2011
Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with these guidelines presented by the U.S. government. Plus: Google and Microsoft fling malware accusations; Redmond hogging credit for latest botnet take down?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/04/2011
Three good reasons to like the next version of PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/03/2011
Debug the longer PowerShell scripts by inserting breakpoints -- and some choice PowerShell cmdlets -- that will help you see how scripts are processing information along the way.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/27/2011
Imagine data transfers at 2GB per second. Simple, right? Now, imagine that transfer happening in a virtualized environment that leverages SMB 2.2 multichannel and RDMA. Yeah, we thought that'd make you smile.