PowerShell Deep Dive Agenda
Published March 30, 2011The agenda for the PowerShell Deep Dive is available here http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2011/powershell-deep-dive/agenda/
There are still a few seats left at the discount price – but you need to hurry. See
Scripting Games 2011–Countdown
Published March 27, 2011The Scripting Games will start in 1 weeks time on 4 April
The judges have been announced -
Now that is a scary looking crew 
The judging criteria have been announced
There’s also a post on getting the most from the Games
Good luck to all participants.
Regular Expression Slides
Published March 24, 2011
The slides, scripts and cheat sheet from Tome’s regular expression presentation are now available
http://cid-43cfa46a74cf3e96.office.live.com/browse.aspx/PowerShell%20User%20Group/March%202011
Regular Expression Recording
Published March 23, 2011The recording of the PowerShell UG meeting last night is available
Richard Siddaway has invited you to view a Microsoft Office Live Meeting recording.
View Recording
Recording Details
Subject: Regular Expressions in PowerShell
Recording URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/view
Recording ID: TRG55D
Attendee Key: Bd+;%:H8Z
This Office Live Meeting invitation is a personal invitation meant only for you. It should not be forwarded. If you received this email by mistake or require Live Meeting Assistance, please refer to the Live Meeting Assistance Center at http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidLiveMeeting?p1=12&p2=en_US&p3=LMInfo&p4=support
Enjoy
PowerShell Deep Dive Line Up
Published March 23, 2011
Dmitry has collected all of the currently available information on the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive
http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/powershell-deep-dive-recap/
PowerShell UG Live Meeting tomorrow
Published March 21, 2011Don’t forget the UK PowerShell UG meeting tomorrow – 22 March. Details from
http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/uk-powershell-groupmarch-2011/
PowerShell and WMI–Chapters 6 & 7 in MEAP
Published March 15, 2011Chapters 6 and 7 have been released for PowerShell and WMI. It is available through the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) at http://www.manning.com/siddaway2/
The available chapters cover:
- Solving Administrative Challenges
- Using PowerShell
- WMI in Depth
- Best Practices
- System Documentation
- Disk System
- Registry
Chapters 8 to 10 covering the File system; Services and Processes; and Printers respectively are in the pipeline. I’m currently working on chapter 11 on Networking. The code to accompany the MEAP chapters is also available for download from the URL above.
PowerShell module for PKI
Published March 15, 2011PowerShell MVP Vadims Podans has released a PowerShell module for working with PKI. It works against Windows 2003 /2003 R2/ 2008 and 2008 R2 Certificate Authorities.
If you are using Certificate Services in your environment you need this. Download from http://pspki.codeplex.com/
WMI–Provider Load Failure
Published March 13, 2011I’m currently writing Chapter 11 of PowerShell and WMI and its about using the WMI classes related to networking. I tried the Win32_NetworkAdapter on the HP laptop I use for writing and everything worked fine. Tried it on my Lenovo that I use as a Hyper-V server and got a Provider Load failure error.
PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter
Get-WmiObject : Provider load failure
At line:1 char:14
+ Get-WmiObject <<<< -Class Win32_NetworkAdapter
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand
This is definitely in the realms of not good. At this point I was imagining WMI rebuild or even a complete server rebuild.
I tried
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
and it worked. Now that’s confusing.
Did a Bing search and found this post
which walks through how to use wbemtest to see what is happening.
Turns out like the author of the post I had the Intel WiFi tools installed but didn’t have an Intel wireless card. The LAN card is Intel so I guess that’s where the tools came from. The wifiwmip.dll seems to be to blame for the problem.
Removed the intel WiFi tools and everything now works.
PowerShell Deep Dive–more sessions announced
Published March 13, 2011The agenda for the first PowerShell deep dive is filling up
http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2011/general-information/2011-powershell-deep-dive/
The speaker list includes:
Jeffrey Snover
Bruce Payette
Kenneth Hansen
Don Jones
Kirk Munro
Brandon Shell
Jeffrey Hicks
Sean Kearney
James O’Neill
oh yeah - and me
This is going to be an awesome two days – if you are interested in PowerShell you need to be there