Profile Examples from Presentation
May 11, 2010
Here are some of the scripts that I used during the demonstration in VA Beach.
Profiles:
Example #1
[ps]
function prompt
{
“Xenophane " + $(get-location) + “>”
}
[/ps]
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Gotten back from Minasi conference
May 11, 2010
I got back from Virgina Beach this past Saturday, after attending a very good conference, where I learned a lot of new an exciting stuff… And of course it was very good to meet up with the “gang” again.
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Powershell as a webservice
Jan 24, 2010
Seems as if Quest has been doing some really cool things with Powershell, from what I can read, they have “rolled” it up as a webservice, meaning that you can now run your Powershell scripts over HTTPS from either you local machine, your phone, anything that supports a newer web browser.
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MSTSC Util update
Dec 14, 2009
I was asked to update my MSTSC util, so here goes.. It will now check for the configuration file and display a message if it is not there, instead of just erroring out.
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Finding Powershell V2
Nov 30, 2009
Joel Bennet made a good point about it can be difficult to find Powershell V2 on the MS site. I am not going to rewrite Joels post, so I will just “quote” it.
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Windows Management Framework has arrived
Oct 28, 2009
Today Windows Management Framework was released in its final version for Windows XP, and Server 2003, Windows Vista and Server 2008. Windows Management Framework contains Powershell v2, WinRM 2.0 and BITS 4.
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Finding out how many active sessions are on a Server 2008 TS
Sep 25, 2009
DisconnectedSessions Win32_TerminalService
TotalSessions Win32_TerminalService
ActiveSessions Win32_PerfFormattedData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
InactiveSessions Win32_PerfFormattedData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
TotalSessions Win32_PerfFormattedData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
ActiveSessions Win32_PerfRawData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
InactiveSessions Win32_PerfRawData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
TotalSessions Win32_PerfRawData_LocalSessionManager_TerminalServices
Of course to be able to do this, I had to know/guess that the class contained “term” and that the property would be named something with “session”
Set-ExecutionPolicy
Sep 23, 2009
I was just playing with the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet today, when I noticed that in V2, it is possible to change the execution policy for different scopes, even though you are not running your session using the “Run as administrator”.
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ADMGS (Active Directory Management Gateway Service)
Sep 20, 2009
There has been some speculation on the web regarding the ADMGS for Server 2008 and 2003, if it would be possible to use it, in an environment without at least one Server 2008 R2.
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Finding that Hyper-V machine
Sep 19, 2009
[ps]
Get-QADObject -Name ‘Microsoft Hyper-V’ -Type serviceConnectionPoint | Get-QADComputer -Identity {$_.ParentContainerDN}
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