The Lonely Administrator

Friday Fun: Color My World

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:29:09 +0000

The end of another work week and time for a little PowerShell fun. When I first started using PowerShell, I was fascinated by Write-Host and the ability to write colorized text to the console. Visions of ANSI art danced in … Continue reading →

PowerShell: The Ultimate Ginsu Knife

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:59 +0000

You don’t have to stay up until the wee hours of the morning looking for an amazing tool that slices and dices like the famed Ginsu Knife. Are you looking for a way to speed up your work? Are you … Continue reading →

Get Some Style

Jeffery Hicks — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:10:31 +0000

Windows PowerShell has many ways to present and store information. You can display it to the screen, write it to a file, send it to a printer, create an CSV or XML file or even a pretty HTML report. The … Continue reading →

New-PSDriveHere

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:15 +0000

I spend a lot of time, as you might expect, at a PowerShell prompt. Especially when training, presenting or doing demonstrations. Very often I’m in a folder with a long path like PS C:\users\jeff\Documents\Enterprise Mgmt Webinar. That takes up a … Continue reading →

Friday Fun: Music of the Shell

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:53:31 +0000

We made it to the end of the week, and I don’t know about you but I have my head buried in PowerShell work. But you know what they say about all work and no fun…so I figured I’d take … Continue reading →

My TrainSignal Interview

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:03:06 +0000

During TechEd in New Orleans this year, I had an opportunity to sit down with some great people from TrainSignal. We had a great chat on PowerShell, why it matters and why you should take the time to learn it. … Continue reading →

PowerShell Background Jobs at CNY Developer Group

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:46:55 +0000

I will be presenting a talk on PowerShell background jobs at the September meeting of the CNY Developer Group on September 8, 2010 at 6:00PM. The group meets at the New Horizons office in DeWitt, NY. I hope you’ll consider … Continue reading →

Pipelines, Consoles and Hosts

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:27:46 +0000

I continue to come across a particular topic in discussion forums that causes many PowerShell beginners a lot of headaches and more than a little frustration. I know I’ve written about this before and I’m sure I’ll cover it again, … Continue reading →

PowerCLI VM Peek

Jeffery Hicks — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:35:04 +0000

Now that I believe I’ve resolved my hardware issues with my VMware server, I’m expecting to use it much more. I’m also continuing my exploration of the PowerCLI tool set which allows me to manage my virtual infrastructure from a … Continue reading →

Friday the 13 Script Blocks

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:47:16 +0000

In celebration of Friday the 13th and to help ward off any triskaidekaphobia I thought I’d offer up 13 PowerShell scriptblocks. These are scriptblocks that might solve a legitimate business need like finding how long a server has been running … Continue reading →