Fun with file and folder attributes, via PowerShell and the DIR command.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/20/2012
Now that we know how to set up a timer object, let's get it to do something awesome. Part 2 in a series on the timer object.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/13/2012
A new beta-test search tool for PowerShell users that's designed to find code across local and online repositories was released by Microsoft on Monday.
Today's release of Microsoft security update features six bulletins, with one labeled as "critical," four "important" and one "moderate."
According to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification. Microsoft's monthly security update will feature one bulletin item "critical," four "important" and one moderate.
Microsoft shared some information this week on the relationship between Windows Server 8 and PowerShell.
Create a timer object with PowerShell New-Object cmdlet to schedule recurring tasks at intervals.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/06/2012
Improvements include GUI and PowerShell enhancements, virtual machine memory boosts, security and self-updating cluster option improvements.
When we can't leverage the pipeline, we can turn to the ForEach-Object cmdlet to help with some heavy lifting.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/28/2012
Microsoft unveiled a beta test version of a new service for IT professionals to scan Windows systems for problems.
Windows System Restore can be managed through several PowerShell cmdlets. We cover some of them here.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/21/2012
Order in the script -- with the here string.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/14/2012
Microsoft today released its Security Update for the month of February, featuring four bulletin items classified as "critical" and five "important."
Working with variables will improve with the next version of PowerShell. Take this week's example, $PSDefaultParameterValues, a new automatic variable.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/07/2012
The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/31/2012