Prof. Powershell


Provider Peek

PSDrives work like real drives, only different. Here's how to work with these PSProviders in PowerShell.

Surfing Pipeline

Let's put what you've learned so far into practice using PowerShell's pipeline with objects.

Functions That Act Like Cmdlets

The third part in a series on writing simple functions to work in PowerShell.

Keeping Your Options Open

Now that you're familiar with functions, here's how to pass information to them. A look at the Param keyword.

Get-Modular

PowerShell can handle functions, but be sure to keep things simple by modularizing code.

Comparison and Contrast

Which of these things is not like the other? Use the Compare-Object cmdlet to find out.

PowerShell 2.0: Even Better Than 1.0

The community technology preview is worth the time to download. Here's what I like so far.

Checking Your Homework

Last week's assignment: Create a formatted report of some processes with the powers of PowerShell. How did you do?

Show What You Learned About PowerShell

Homework Assignment #1: Creating a formatted report of a selected scoped of peak paged memory.

Give Me Time

PowerShell's DateTime object will leave you with time on your hands to do other things.

Stringing Along

Use a PowerShell object's methods to do many of the same tasks for which you'd write VBscript code in long form.

Get-Unique -- Same But Different

I still prefer the Select-Object cmdlet, but Get-Unique has a way of weeding out the dupes that's, well, different.

Uniqueness Counts

PowerShell's Select-Object command has a -unique switch that lest you sort through the riffraff.

Command Performance

The Get-Command cmdlet reveals all that you need to know about PowerShell.

Reading Assignment

My secret for learning Powershell? Check out these blogs.

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