IT Administration


Microsoft Releases Beta of Exchange Bandwidth Calculator

Microsoft last week issued a beta of a new Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator.

Default Parameter Values: Better with PS 3

Working with variables will improve with the next version of PowerShell. Take this week's example, $PSDefaultParameterValues, a new automatic variable.

Slice and Dice with Hash Tables in PowerShell

The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how.

Microsoft Releases Free PST Capture Tool

Microsoft released a new free tool that helps IT pros find those elusive .PST files that Exchange creates.

Process Buried Treaure

PowerShell can dig up information on processes pretty easily. It's all in the FileVersion property.

To DIR, with Love; Or, How PowerShell 3 Will Improve Get-ChildItem

PowerShell 3 makes some much-needed improvements to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet.

Can I Get a Little PowerShell Help?

When looking for cmdlet help, PowerShell 3 goes beyond version 2 with an Update-Help cmdlet.

Microsoft: Windows 8 Will Have Storage Virtualization Benefits

Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 will have a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with NTFS.

Enum's the Limit

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.

Windows Update Troubles, Or What to Do When the Mother of All Patches Fails

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.

PowerShell 2 and 3, Side by Side

Here's something nifty: you don't have uninstall PowerShell 2 to use version 3.

PowerShell 3 Goes With The Flow

PowerShell 3 adds new console redirection operators for streaming pipeline output.

PowerShell 3 Out With WMF 3.0 CTP2

Microsoft released a community technology preview 2 version of Windows Management Framework 3.0 this month, and it included the newest PowerShell.

Start-Process Cmdlet: The Best of Both Worlds

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.

Alternate Alternate Credentials

Go GUI-less and avoid the Get-Credential cmdlet's dialog with this helpful script for supplying alternative credentials.

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