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A series of posts on using the Exchange DSC resources – starts here

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx

The Scripting Guy has started a series on upgrading the version of  PowerShell you run.  My article in the series is out today - http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/10/20/should-i-upgrade-to-latest-windows-powershell-version.aspx

Looks like the next wave of the DSC resource kit is on its way – a set of resources for Exchange 2013 have been published - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388 with a wave 8 tag.

I’ve been waiting for the Exchange resources – they’re going to make my life soooooo much easier

If you run get-process you will see something like this for each process

£> Get-Process | select -f 1

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M)  CPU(s)   Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- -----  ------   -- -----------
     80      7   960  4096    44         1560 armsvc

You’ll get the same display if you use

£> Get-Process | select -f 1 | ft

If you ask for a list – you get something different

£> Get-Process | select -f 1 | fl

Id      : 1560
Handles : 80
CPU     :
Name    : armsvc

Looking at all of the data for a single process give you this:

£> Get-Process | select -f 1 | fl *

__NounName                 : Process
Name                       : armsvc
Handles                    : 80
VM                         : 46186496
WS                         : 4194304
PM                         : 983040
NPM                        : 7136
Path                       :
Company                    :
CPU                        :
FileVersion                :
ProductVersion             :
Description                :
Product                    :
Id                         : 1560
PriorityClass              :
HandleCount                : 80
WorkingSet                 : 4194304
PagedMemorySize            : 983040
PrivateMemorySize          : 983040
VirtualMemorySize          : 46186496
TotalProcessorTime         :
BasePriority               : 8
ExitCode                   :
HasExited                  :
ExitTime                   :
Handle                     :
MachineName                : .
MainWindowHandle           : 0
MainWindowTitle            :
MainModule                 :
MaxWorkingSet              :
MinWorkingSet              :
Modules                    :
NonpagedSystemMemorySize   : 7136
NonpagedSystemMemorySize64 : 7136
PagedMemorySize64          : 983040
PagedSystemMemorySize      : 89712
PagedSystemMemorySize64    : 89712
PeakPagedMemorySize        : 1212416
PeakPagedMemorySize64      : 1212416
PeakWorkingSet             : 4300800
PeakWorkingSet64           : 4300800
PeakVirtualMemorySize      : 50155520
PeakVirtualMemorySize64    : 50155520
PriorityBoostEnabled       :
PrivateMemorySize64        : 983040
PrivilegedProcessorTime    :
ProcessName                : armsvc
ProcessorAffinity          :
Responding                 : True
SessionId                  : 0
StartInfo                  : System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
StartTime                  :
SynchronizingObject        :
Threads                    : {1564, 1572}
UserProcessorTime          :
VirtualMemorySize64        : 46186496
EnableRaisingEvents        : False
StandardInput              :
StandardOutput             :
StandardError              :
WorkingSet64               : 4194304
Site                       :
Container                  :

Notice that you don’t see anything corresponding to  any of these fields from the default display - NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)

That’s because they are calculated by PowerShell when the data is formatted to display.  See about_Format.ps1xml for more details