PowerShell v2 has finally been released for 'legacy' OSes (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008)! I'm saying legacy OSes because the latest OSes are Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You could also say the out-of-band releases have been released. This happened somewhere in the end of October 2009. If you ...

During preparation to TEC sessions and during TEC I noted some topics to blog about in a future so I hope that I will find time to blog about them soon. I noted also some URLs to tools which are out there so today’s post is some kind of web press release. Patch management. If you have ever wondered how to deploy updates maybe You will get ...

Exchange 2007 support in ILM 2007 has some tough history behind it. Lets not talk about painful past :). Even that this configuration (ILM and Exchange 2007) was available since Rollup 4 package with some fixes in Rollup 5 it wasn’t perfect. In some scenarios it still failed with MA export error caused by simple fact that update-recipient cmdlet ...

Today I was playing with ''ServerManagerCMD.EXE'' Windows Server 2008 R2. When I executed it I saw the following informational message: ''Servermanagercmd.exe is deprecated, and is not guaranteed to be supported in future releases of Windows. We recommend that you use the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are available for Server ...

This is the way to determine which PowerShell Snap-Ins and Modules are available in Windows Server 2008 R2…   PS C:\> Get-PSSnapin Name : Microsoft.PowerShell.Diagnostics PSVersion : 2.0 Description : This Windows PowerShell snap-in contains Windows Eventing and Performance Counter cmdlets.   Name : ...

If you are using Windows PowerShell Remoting right now with WinRM CTP3 (or lower) on Windows Server 2008, it may break after you apply Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 (W2K8). One of the symptoms is the WinRM service not starting anymore and throwing the following error.   The solution? Don't install SP2! J WAIT! There ...

Until Windows PowerShell CTP2, Microsoft used the CMDlet called ''New-Runspace'' for setting up a remote session. As of Windows PowerShell CTP3 that was changed to ''New-PSSession''. Why? I do not know. Just something to be aware of! REMARK: this is not just for the 'New-Runspace', but rather for all related cmdlets, such as 'Remove-Runspace', ...

One of the cool cmdlets that was added is Get-QADMemberOf. I am excited to get playing with these. More info can be found on Dmitry’s blog here. You can download them here.

David Muegge has a great set of blog posts going related to using Log Parser with PowerShell. Check them out with the links below. http://muegge.com/blog/?p=62 (Log Parser and PowerShell – Part I) http://muegge.com/blog/?p=65 (Log Parser and PowerShell – Part II)

This is a pretty cool one liner that is of tremendous help. You can get the serial number of most PCs via PowerShell remotely. This includes Dell service tags. Command: Get-WMIObject -Class ''Win32_BIOS'' -Computer computername | select SerialNumber   Example: Get-WMIObject –Class ...