Sorry you didn’t make it to the Big Apple for the last Techmentor conference. It was a small and intimate show which I always like because it is easier to talk with attendees and answer questions. Plus your odds are…
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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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You would think that by now Windows and Windows applications would be much better about cleaning up temporary files. But no. It is amazing how many files I still see in my %TEMP% directory. I’ve always operated under the assumption…
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I don’t know how I missed this, but I hope I can find some time to squeeze it in tomorrow. I’m excited about setting up Hyper-V for all of my test and demo virtual machines. And of course, PowerShell topics…
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I had a great time last week in Orlando speaking at WinConnections. I met a lot of terrific people, attendees and fellow speakers alike. I spoke primarily on PowerShell and how you will use it to manage your environment. As…
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Download the ZIP file containing the sample scripts from this book by Don Jones.…
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These are the sample scripts from the last printing of Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, by Don Jones. Download ZIP file.…
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Hopefully you found my last entry valuable. But I always like to take things a step further, especially when it comes to scripting and automation. So I turned my last script into a function that returns the value of a…
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Last week I blogged about using REG.EXE in a batch file to read a registry key. The batch file I provided works, but the output is limited. You could probably parse it a bit more to get it in some…
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