Richard Siddaway's Blog

Do you know a young person in the USA that is just starting their IT career and would benefit from an intensive training program and scholarship?   Point them to the DevOps Collective site (DevOps Collective is the parent organization for powershell.org)  https://devopscollective.org/2016/04/04/announcing-the-getgoing-it-ops-education-program-scholarship/   Initially this program is US only but we hope to make […]

A question on the forum about combining information from 2 CIM classes produced this:   function Get-MonitorInfo {     [CmdletBinding()]     param(         $computername = $env:COMPUTERNAME     )     $cs = New-CimSession -ComputerName $computername         $monitors =  Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorId -Filter "Active = ‘$true’" -CimSession $cs         foreach ($monitor in $monitors) […]

A big thank you to everyone who attended my Summit pre-conference workshop. The interaction was great and I really enjoyed it even though I was feeling the efffects of my flight the previous day.   One thing we discovered was that good old dependable calc has changed. On a Windows 10 (build 14295 and last […]

Its April first and the email arrives mid-afternoon. My MVP award has been renewed for another year (9th consecutive year)   I still really appreciate the recognition this award bestows and hope to keep working to make the PowerShell community even better in the next 12 months