I was messing around with my son’s computer today trying to figure out why one of his programs wouldn’t work. I was going to use ProcMon to monitor the processes but wasn’t sure what the processes where. So first I had to figure out what processes were getting started when I ran his program. I guessed that there was a WMI ...
I recently did a pretty wide ranging interview for TechNet with Osama Sajid. They broke it up into 3 sections. You can find the first section (along with pointers to the others) HERE. In part 3 I talk about the idea of Integrated Lifetime Earnings and how this is affected by PowerShell. I think this is a pretty important ...
PowerShellCommunity.org has announced that they have a got a new sponsor, Pragma Systems. SSH and Telnet folks know Pragma very well. For Powershell users they provide the capability to access Windows PowerShell from any client that runs a ssh or telnet client. More details of Pragma's Powershell support can be seen here. They would ...
On one of our internal discussion aliases, someone asked why do we need a plus (+) the class name for FTP? Typically, you would expect this to work [Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp], but it doesn’t. The solution is [Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp] and it has something to do with nested classes In C#, a nested class looks something like public class List{&...
Announcing the public release of Microsoft Windows Management Framework RC for Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 and SP2. This RC includes release notes and the following components: · Windows PowerShell 2.0 · WinRM ...
I just got a quick ping from someone at work for an uptime script. I checked in WMI with by using Search-WmiHelp to find a wmi class that had an uptime property (Win32_OperatingSystem has LastBootUpTime). While I had found the uptime property I needed, I was left with another pretty common problem that people hit (in VBScript and in ...
Scripting Guys have posted a wrap-up to the Summer Scripting Games.. they will be taking the winner scripts one by one and explain it in detail. See it here Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manager ...;
SAPIEN Technologies ,makers of PrimalScripts have added another cool product for Windows PowerShell users - PrimalForms. Check it out http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manager...
