PowerScripting Podcast

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

• Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory
• PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released

In this show I discussed the cmdlets:

• Select-String
• Set-Content
• Measure-Command

Resources:

PowerShell newsgroup

Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management

Tips:

• Quoting rules
• Double quotes – variables are expanded and can contain text right after it

• Uses of backtick or backquote `
  • Escapes the next character
  • Example “`$user is $user”
  • Can be used to continue to the next line
  • `n is newline
  • `r is a carriage return
  • `t is a tab
  • `a is an alert
  • `b is a backspace
  • `’ or `”
  • `0 is null
  • “ is a single backtick

• Singe quotes “What you see is what you get”even escape characters are ignored

PowerShell moment:

• I talked about creating 150 user accounts with the new Quest cmdlets
• I talked about doing a mass Group Policy update using PowerShell to update the gpttmpl.inf files

One Liner:

• Select-string \\domain\netlogon -pattern time
• (Select-string \\domain\netlogon -pattern time).count

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

• Windows Powershell will ship with Longhorn and will be available in Beta 3

In this show I discussed the cmdlets:

• Where-Object
• Sort-Object
• ForEach-Object

Resources:

PowerShell Analyzer

An Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell -by Don Jones

Tips:

• Gettype()
• Learn Aliases
  • Get-Alias

One Liner:

Select-String *.txt -pattern username | %{$_.line} | set-content username.log

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

In this show I discussed the cmdlets Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member.

Here is a great video discussion of these cmdlets by Jeffrey Snover.

I also talked about a great Technet video by Don Jones about the PowerShell Pipeline.

For our first PowerShell moment I talked about $f= dir

The one-liner (full version) is:

Get-Content servers.txt | %{$x = net time \\$_; $x[0];If($x[2].contains(”Local”)){$x[2]}} | Add-Content Servertime.txt

You can find more detail about this one-liner in an earlier post.

I have finally posted my first podcast!

I started with Episode Zero because all collections in Powershell start with zero. This show is an introduction to the podcast, PowerShell and to scripting. I gave an overview of the segments that will be featured in upcoming podcasts as well as my reasoning behind them.

You can find the Windows PowerShell homepage at http://microsoft.com/powershell.

PowerShell Help 1.1 can be downloaded from http://www.primalscript.com/freetools/defaultin.asp.

I hope you enjoy my first attempt at podcasting. If the link at the right doesn’t work for you to subscribe you can go directly to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting and click one of the links or paste the URL in your podcatching software.