Richard Siddaway's blog (external)

CTP3 – Remote Access

The ability to administer remote machines was one of the biggest requests for PowerShell v2. As well as the ability to use PowerShell remoting through WSMAN a number of PowerShell cmdlets get direct access to remote machines by having a –ComputerName...

Published 01-05-2009 21:32 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 – Get-Counter

All admins will be familiar with performance counters and their use in diagnosing issues with systems. Now you can access them in PowerShell using Get-Counter. Get-Counter -ListSet * will provide a list of the counters available on your system. This is...

Published 01-05-2009 21:23 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 – CheckPoint-Computer

In this post - http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1967.entry – we looked at how to list the available restore points with Get-ComputerRestorePoint. We can use PowerShell to create a new restore point Checkpoint-Computer Read...

Published 01-04-2009 20:42 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 - PowerShell start up speed

One thing I have really noticed is how quickly CTP3 starts and is ready to use. Much the fastest start we’ve had in PowerShell Technorati Tags: PoserShell , CTP3 , start up speed Read More...

Published 01-04-2009 20:24 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

TechEd Online Bloggers

One of the innovations at TechEd thsi year was a blog aggregator. It is still going at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/cc531163.aspx The bloggers that contribute are a really good cross-section of the IT Community. The current list of contributors...

Published 01-02-2009 23:23 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: IT Community

CTP3 – Get-RestorePoint

With CTP3 we get a number of cmdlets for working with the system restore points on a computer: Checkpoint-Computer – creates a system restore point Restore-Computer – restores to a specified restore point Disable\Enable-ComputerRestore – controls the...

Published 01-02-2009 14:01 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

PowerShell User Group 2009

Two meetings are planned for early 2009. January 21st – Microsoft Reading – Webcast with Jeffrey Snover February 10th – Microsoft Cardinal Place London - After the Powershell event in the afternoon - Jonathan Noble will be speaking More details on both...

Published 12-31-2008 16:03 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell User Group

CTP3 – Write-EventLog

Last of the new event log cmdlets is Write-EventLog. I showed how to write to the event log here http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!275.entry . This is still valid for PowerShell v1 or v2. In v2 we can make life a bit simpler...

Published 12-31-2008 13:29 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 – New-EventLog

I have shown how to create an event log using simple .NET code a couple of times including http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!278.entry . CTP 3 brings us a cmdlet that we can use to perform this act. New-EventLog is used...

Published 12-31-2008 12:33 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

PowerGUI – PowerShell Help

I have mentioned PowerGUI many times – I especially like the editor. There is a large, and growing, library of PowerGUI powerpacks (additional functionality) available for download from www.powergui.org . I have just added the PowerShell Help powerpack...

Published 12-30-2008 15:48 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell

CTP3 – Remove-EventLog

Remove-EventLog is a new cmdlet in CTP3. It brings the following parameters: ComputerName LogName Source Verbose Debug ErrorAction WarningAction ErrorVariable WarningVariable OutVariable OutBuffer WhatIf Confirm The Source is how applications write to...

Published 12-30-2008 13:48 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 – Clear-EventLog

Continuing our tour around the event log cmdlets we come to Clear-EventLog. This does exactly what it says – it clears the entries out of one or more logs. Note that it does not backup the entries in anyway – it is just a clear. We can clear a single...

Published 12-29-2008 21:43 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: PowerShell V2

CTP3 – Limit-EventLog

If we look at the event logs that are present on our system we will see how the logs are configured in terms of maximum size, retention days and the action to take in the event of the log becoming full (overflow). PS> Get-EventLog -List Max(K) Retain...

Published 12-29-2008 18:18 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell

CTP3 – Show-EventLog

Show-EventLog is a very straight forward cmdlet with a minimum of parameters. Outside of the common parameters it can only take a computer name. As it says in the name the cmdlet opens Event Viewer on the local or remote machine (remember need for admin...

Published 12-29-2008 12:01 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell

CTP3 – Get-EventLog

No doubt there will be a mass of posts on the new features in CTP3 over the next weeks and months. What I want to try and do is concentrate on those features that are of most benefit to administrators. I am going to start with functionality to work with...

Published 12-28-2008 22:54 by Richard Siddaway's Blog

Filed under: Powershell

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives

CTP3 – Remote Access

CTP3 – Get-Counter

CTP3 – CheckPoint-Computer

CTP3 - PowerShell start up speed

TechEd Online Bloggers

CTP3 – Get-RestorePoint

PowerShell User Group 2009

CTP3 – Write-EventLog

CTP3 – New-EventLog

PowerGUI – PowerShell Help

CTP3 – Remove-EventLog

CTP3 – Clear-EventLog

CTP3 – Limit-EventLog

CTP3 – Show-EventLog

CTP3 – Get-EventLog