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.
The MAP beta adds an Oracle-to-SQL Server migration readiness assessment; SCM 2 adds a Group Policy Objects Pack feature.
Microsoft renamed one product, and released new test versions of some of its System Center 2012 management applications.
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
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 launched the second generation of its cloud-based PC management service.
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
Three good reasons to like the next version of PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/03/2011
An industry study of Microsoft SharePoint shows that usage of the collaboration platform is growing, but maintenance costs can be high especially given the lack of trained personnel.
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.
Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others.
Microsoft last week released a community technology preview version of Windows Management Framework 3.0.