Shay Levy

Auto reconnect to a server you just rebooted with PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:51:00 GMT

Yesterday I saw a tweet that caught my eye: Sounds familiar? What do you usually do to reconnect to your server once it is back online? How do you monitor it’s availability? In this post, Justin...

PSRR - Remote Registry PowerShell 3.0 Module

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; One of the new improvements in the .NET Framework version 4 is the Microsoft.Win32.RegistryView enumeration. On the 64-bit version...

The PowerShell Experts Video Series

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:54:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; PowerShell Magazine has started the PowerShell Experts Video Series, a series of short video interviews conducted at the PowerShell Deep...

New advanced functions language features in PowerShell v3

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; PowerShell 3.0 CTP1 includes many new language enhancements. Here are four of them for advanced functions. CmdletBinding and...

Windows PowerShell 3.0 CTP1 is available for download!

ScriptFanatic — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:31:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP1) is available for download for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008...

How to disable positional parameter binding in PowerShell vNext

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Windows PowerShell supports two kind of parameters: Named and Positional. In a nutshell, Named parameters must be specified on the...

Get Your Game On! Leverage Proxy Functions In Windows PowerShell

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:30:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; I’m excited to announce that MVP Kirk Munro (aka poshoholic) and I are going to present in the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive track at...

PowerShell Seminar - Microsoft Infra Days 2011 (Hebrew)

ScriptFanatic — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; מקווה לראותכם בכנס. מהרו להירשם (לחצו על התמונה), מספר המקומות מוגבל! var addthis_config =...

Get Full Control over your Exchange remote PowerShell session

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; PowerShell 2.0 supports two kinds of remote configurations: fan-in and fan-out. When we execute a command against a bunch of servers we...

Exchange - Removing Illegal Alias Characters using PowerShell

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; If you're in a mixed-mode environment with both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007/2010 you may have noticed this message when using...

PowerSE - Free Professional Script Editor

ScriptFanatic — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:04:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; A few days ago, Devfarm Software the makers of PowerWF, has released their commercial PowerShell editor, PowerSE v2.5, as a free...

PowerShell MVP for 2011

ScriptFanatic — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:19:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; July 1st is very special day for me. It is the day when I first got the MVP award. Today I got it again, I'm a PowerShell MVP...

PowerShell At The Israeli SBS Users Group (Hebrew)

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:16:01 GMT

מה זה בכלל PowerShell? למה אני צריך את זה? בנות אוהבות את זה? מה אם אף פעם לא כתבתי אפילו שורת פקודה אחת? אני בכלל לא מפתח – זה נוגע אלי? המון שאלות אה? על כל זאת ועוד נדבר במפגש הבא של...

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:03:16 GMT

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches is a newly designed tutorial for system administrators. Just set aside one hour a day -- lunchtime would be perfect -- for a month, and you'll be...

Converting date strings in PowerShell

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:30:00 GMT

The Get-Date cmdlet lets us create, convert, and format date strings to DateTime .NET objects. However, there’s one thing it cannot do, convert a date string which is not a format it expects (defines...