Richard Siddaway's Blog

Wanted one nice kind PowerShell community member to buy the last lonely ticket for the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Summit.   That’s right we have one place left. And its definitely the last. if you want it – better hurry.

Microsoft’s Active Directory cmdlets have some issues. One of the ones that catches everyone when they start using them is that Get-ADUser doesn’t display all properties. A default call to Get-ADUser displays a subset of the available properties of the user object: DistinguishedName : CN=FOX Fred,OU=UserAccounts,DC=Manticore,DC=org Enabled           : True GivenName         : Name              : FOX Fred […]

Saw a post on the forum today that suggests people are still confused about how to perform filtering of objects and properties in PowerShell. As with so much in PowerShell explanations are always better with examples.   Let’s start with the physical disks in a computer: PS> Get-PhysicalDisk FriendlyName               SerialNumber    CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage            Size […]

After selling out in record time we’ve managed to squeeze a few more seats in after discussion with the conference centre.   Those seats are live now.   They are very definitely, the absolute last set of seats we’ll be able to add this year.   First come – First served. When they’re gone – […]

We sold the last seat for the 2017 Summit – https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 yesterday.   If, and its a very big if, more seats become available we’ll notify you though the event web site and on powershell.org

PowerShell on Linux installs are now easier as you can use the Linux package management tools to download and update PowerShell Core 6.0   Details from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/02/01/installing-latest-powershell-core-6-0-release-on-linux-just-got-easier/