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I normally leave the Windows firewall enabled in my test environment. It ensures I don’t forget it when testing. My recent session for the TechEd:Australia PowerShell conference involved me disabling various firewall rules on the subject machine to set up part of the demo. I had to use the GUI tools to do this. I’’ve […]

This is the provisional list of meetings for the rest of the year   20 September Aleksandar Nikolic  7.30pm BST 25 October  WSMAN and WMI  – this is an extended version of the talk I gave over Live Meeting to the TechEd Australia PowerShell conference 7.30pm GMT 22 November Jonathan Medd “What’s new in PowerCLI […]

I will be presenting the above webcast next week. Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST   Thats 6pm UK time   Register for the web cast at http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/11256.aspx

A forum question about testing services and if they weren’t running got me thinking. I created an function to solve the question function test-service{ [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param ( [parameter(Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [Alias("CN", "ComputerName")] [string]$computer="." , [string]$service="BITS" , [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$file ) BEGIN { if (!(Test-Path -Path $file)){Throw "log file not found"} } PROCESS { $result = Get-WmiObject […]

Forum question wanted to take a list of computer names in a csv Using the Quest cmdlets it becomes Import-Csv computers2.csv | foreach { $comp = Get-QADComputer -Name $($_.Name) if ($comp) {$location = $comp.DN} else {$location = "Does NOT exist in AD"} New-Object -TypeName Psobject -Property @{ Name = $_.Name Location = $location } } […]

PowerShell and WMI is Manning’s deal of the day – 50% off print or e-book.   The deal also extends to PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell in Action 2E See www.manning.com for details

The TechEd Australia PowerShell conference starts tomorrow at midnight UK time (9am in Australia).  Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/08/22/teched-australia-powershell-conference.aspx   I will be presenting on WSMAN and WMI

The NDis WMI classes expose some information about the vendors that produce the various adapters in our systems function get-adaptervendor { param( [string]$computer="." ) Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class MSNdis_CoVendorDescription ` -ComputerName $computer | foreach { $id = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi ` -Class MSNdis_CoVendorId -ComputerName $computer ` -Filter "InstanceName=’$($_.InstanceName)’" New-Object -TypeName PSobject -Property @{ Computer = […]

The MSNdis class from the root\wmi namespace calls the MSNdis_CoHardwareStatus and MSNdis_CoDriverVersion classes. On my Windows 7 system it tries to call something else but I get a “Get-WmiObject : Not supported” error. Neither of these classes seems to have much in the way of documentation available. Rather than calling MSNdis and getting a lot […]

I was notified last night that my submission to the Deep Dive was successful and I will be presenting. There will be a good number of PowerShell MVPs attending. This will be the PowerShell event of the year in Europe. The one in April in the USA was brilliant – this will be at least […]