With service build 569 of PrimalScript 2007 we added a COM object that makes it easier to deal with CSV (comma separated values) data and/or files.
While browsing through posts at ScriptingAnswers.com and some of Microsoft’s scripting related newsgroups I…
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While developing a COM object for scripting use I wanted to provide a VBScript sample as well as a PowerShell sample.
While creating the PowerShell sample I received an unexpected error message when setting a property value. Some quick review…
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One of the last tasks for the Active Directory Powershell book was to assemble all the script samples. When the book is available you’ll be able to download a zip file from SAPIENPress.com. One thing I wanted to do was…
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As of August 1st 2008 every CD of PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise shipped will include a copy of our PowerShell 101 Class-On-Disc.
To find out more about this title please look here: PowerShell 101
If you already own PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise…
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A few weeks ago I posted an entry on creating customized debug messages that you can use in your scripting. After some more testing and tweaking I revised and renamed the function. Write-DebugMessage can now be used within your script…
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The other day I posted a VBS function for getting drive utilization. It seems only fair to give PowerShell a chance to play.
1: Function Get-Utilization {
2: Param([string]$computername=$env:computername,
3: [string]$ID="C:"
4: )
5:
6: #suppress errors messages
7: $errorActionPreference="silentlycontinue"…
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Here’s another recent topic from the ScriptingAnswers.com forums which I thought I’d share. The forum members wanted to delete files if the drive utilization exceeded a certain threshold. Using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with VBScript I came up with something…
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In a recent PowerShell ScriptingAnswers.com post, a member was asking about variables and whether they were “live” or linked to an actual object.The answer is “Yes and No, depending…” For example, consider this expression:
PS C:\> $s=get-service wsearch
The $s…
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In my script and function development, I often add the line $DebugPreference="SilentlyContinue" to the beginning of my code. Throughout the script I add lines using Write-Debug that tell me what the script is doing or the value of a particular…
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Hal Rottenberg has put together a very nice set of functions for exporting and importing PSCredential to a file. The export function takes a PSCredential and serializes it to an XML file. The corresponding import function reconstitutes the PSCredential to…
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