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Wireless on Windows 2016 TP5
Windows Server 2016 TP5 which appeared at the end of April has a major flaw. It doesn’t work with wireless cards! I use a relatively...
Cleaning up entries on Remote Desktop Connection
I use RDP between my main laptop and the machine on which my lab resides. When I rebuild the lab the entries in the Remote Desktop Connection for...
Boolean in Where-Object filter
I was testing some code yesterday and realised there was a quirk in the way the original where syntax (with {}) worked and the way the newer syntax...
Still asking for topics
Earlier in the month I posted a request for topics on powershell.org https://powershell.org/request-for-topics/ This is a request for YOU to...
PowerShell Summit & Conference videos 2016
If you didn’t get to any of these conferences this year the videos are now available. PowerShell and DevOps Summit...
Too many Windows 10 releases????????
The last couple of days have seen some incredibly stupid headlines but one that caught my eye was someone from the “computer press” whining that...
Parallel processing
One of the great features PowerShell brings is the ability to remotely administer your servers. Most people begin remote administration by...
Months
It would be nice to be able to do this: PS> Get-Date -Day 25 -Month December -Year 2016 Get-Date : Cannot bind parameter 'Month'....
WMI classes and Storage cmdlets
There is a hierarchy of objects to work through when dealing with disks First you have the physical disk PS> Get-CimInstance -ClassName...
WMI Filters
A common mistake with WMI/CIM filters is: PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DeviceId=C:" Get-WmiObject :...
Converting strings to dates
You’ll see many examples of this: PS> [datetime]'12/25/2016' 25 December 2016 00:00:00 This works great if the date is in US...
32 or 64 and/or Administrator
When you run the PowerShell console (or ISE) the default icon runs a 32 or 64 bit version that matches your OS. On a 64 bit machine you have the...
Local Administrators
Finding the local administrators on a system is a not infrequent action. There are a number of ways to do this. The oldest method is to...
PowerShell Summit 2017–request for topics
The PowerShell Summit is a community event. PowerShell.orh may organise it but we’re very aware that it is the PowerShell community’s event. ...