A free ebook from Manning: Using the Web to Build the IoT is a collection of six hand-picked chapters that introduce the key technologies and concepts for building the application layer of the IoT. The page is here: http://bit.ly/1SUJW0P
The WinOps conference is dedicated to ‘Windows in a DevOps World’ Its in London 24 May 2016. I’ll be speaking as will Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson of Microsoft. More details from http://winops.org/ Hope to see you there
An update – KB 3157663 – should be installed BEFORE installing any roles, features or applications into a TP5 system. Finding the update isn’t easy – no links from the TP5 pages and doesn’t show in search on Bing or if search microsoft.com You can find it here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3157663 Lets hope RTM […]
Microsoft have released Technology Preview 5 (TP5) of Server 2016 today. Its available from MSDN and the evaluations site Lots of new stuff to try out
So you have some data in csv format: column1 column2 column3 column4 ——- ——- ——- ——- a1 b1 c1 d1 a1 b2 c1 d1 a1 b3 c1 d1 a2 b3 c1 d1 a2 b4 c1 d1 a2 b3 c1 d1 a3 b5 c1 d1 a3 b6 c1 d1 a3 b7 c1 d1 a4 b5 […]
A few announcements from the PowerShell Team that I’m catching up on. The Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module is now open source https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/04/25/the-archive-module-is-now-open-source/ The archive module was introduced in WMF 5.0. Its now available on the PowerShell Gallery for installation on WMF 4.0. Any future updates will be through the gallery. The version in the […]
Years ago (seems like decades so much has happened) I published my view on PowerShell certification: https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/powershell-certifications/ A recent comment on the post asked if I still felt the same way. Its not a topic I’d thought about all that much to be honest but having reflected on the matter I still believe […]
The CIM cmdlets were introduced with PowerShell 3.0. You can use the –ComputerName parameter to access a remote machine or, if you need to run multiple commands to the remote machine, you can create a CIM session. CIM sessions are analogous to PowerShell remoting sessions and use WSMAN by default to connect to the […]
A question on the powershell.org about finding the creation date of folders raises some interesting points To find a folder’s creation date use: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Directory -Filter "Drive=’C:’ AND Path = ‘\\users\\$user\\’" | select Name, @{N=’Creation date’; E={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.CreationDate)}} OR Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Directory -Filter "Drive=’C:’ AND Path = ‘\\users\\$user\\’" | select Name, CreationDate […]
The recordings from this years PowerShell Summit are now available: http://powershell.org/wp/2016/04/13/powershell-devops-global-summit-videos-online/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coc1Jn5hC4e_XgbFUaS5jY2i