I hope you’ve been playing with the free PrimalForms tool and started creating some useful PowerShell tools. Here’s a technique you might want to explore if you are using PrimalScript. If you’ve used the PrimalScript for awhile you likely are…
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Browsing through some forum or newsgroup recently I noticed that the task of getting or setting file or folder ownership is not trivial from a script.
I put together a small COM component that does the trick and it is…
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A new version of ActiveXPosh was uploaded to our server.
You can download it from http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp
Aside from some minor fixes, it includes a new method on the interface called ‘GetValue’. With that function you can easily get the string…
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I wanted to make sure everybody knew about another site in the ScriptingAnswers.com family. We have another area we refer to as our Essentials site. Here we gather tips, best practices, sample scripts and more. Coverage includes not only PowerShell…
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If you’ve sat in on any of my WMI related classes or conference sessions, I know you’ve heard me talk about using WBEMTest to test WMI connectivity and your WMI queries. WBEMTest has been around as part of Microsoft operating…
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I’ve posted a few zip files with my slides and demos from Techmentor NYC. You’ll find the files in the Essentials section of ScriptingAnswers.com. Click here to get them.
Some of these sessions will be done again at Techmentor Las…
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Microsoft Windows Vista and Server 2008 have become a lot more protective of certain areas of the registry and the file system.
Take an innocent little script that create a URL shortcut in a folder under C:\Program Files.
Not really…
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As our development team gets ready to focus entirely on PrimalScript 2009 and some other, still very secret, new products, it is time to look back on PrimalScript 2007’s path. It is hard to believe it has only been one…
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The other day I gave you a function to create a VBScript style message box in PowerShell. If you find yourself needing MsgBox in PowerShell, you’re likely going to want InputBox. This too is accomplished using the [microsoft.visualbasic.interaction] class. You’ll…
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We are currently running a survey about PowerShell adoption. If you haven’t had a chance yet to participate, please go here to do so: Take the survey
I would like to thank all those who already took the survey for…
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