DevOps is the latest IT fashion. That statement is more than likely viewed as a heresey by many people in IT. A few years ago Cloud could have been the first word in the sentence and a few years before that virtualisation. IT has a long history of jumping on band wagons and […]
With the anniversary update delivered the Windows 10 development carries on with new updates becoming available – now up to build 14915 Not much in the way of PowerShell goodies though
I had a request for the Access functions I wrote about in this post https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/access-functions/ They are now available from https://onedrive.live.com/?id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2179699&cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96
The next change just uses 1 call to get the disk information instead of 2 Measure-Command -Expression { $srvs = ‘W16TP5TGT01’, ‘W16TP5TGT02’ for ($i=1; $i -le 150; $i++){ foreach ($srv in $srvs) { $cs = New-CimSession -ComputerName $srv $bootupMemory = Get-CimInstance -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem" -CimSession $cs $cpuLoad = Get-CimInstance -Query "SELECT * […]
Last time we looked at using CIM sessions to make a set of WMI calls run quicker. This time we’ll reduce the number of calls. I’m deliberately just reducing the number of calls to the Win32_Service class. We’ll look at the disks another time Our code becomes Measure-Command -Expression { $srvs = ‘W16TP5TGT01’, ‘W16TP5TGT02’ […]
You have just over a month to register your session proposals for the 2017 PowerShell Summit – https://powershell.org/2016/08/01/powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2017-call-for-topics/
Recently saw some code where user was running this $bootupMemory = gwmi -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem" -ComputerName $srv $cpuLoad = gwmi -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor" -ComputerName $srv $tSessions = gwmi -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_TerminalService" -ComputerName $srv $ima = gwmi -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE name=’imaservice’" -ComputerName $srv $mfcom = gwmi -Query […]
For those of you that have been at PowerShell events over the last few years you’ll have heard Jeffrey Snover state that he wanted to take PowerShell to other platforms. Now its happened Jeffrey has announced that an ALPHA release of PowerShell is now available for Linux and Mac. Currently available for Ubuntu, […]
Updatable help brings the benefit of up to date help with typos fixed and new edge cases described. The down side is that it sometimes fails: PS> Update-Help -Force Update-Help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) ‘Microsoft.PowerShell.Operation.Validation’ with UI culture(s) {en-GB} : Unable to retrieve the HelpInfo XML file for UI culture […]
This article – https://powershell.org/2016/08/08/what-are-your-known-problems-solved-in-dsc/ – started me thinking about the times I’ve worked on big projects. One of the things we’d do was discuss things that could become problems. Knowledge falls into three groups: – things you know – things you don’t know – you know that X is a thing but you […]