String Theory

Inaugural Meeting of the Atlanta PowerShell User Group

meson3902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:26:34 +0000

The inaugural meeting of the Atlanta PowerShell User Group will be held on Tuesday March 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. You can sign up now at http://powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga. Our first meeting will be a script club. What is a script club you ask? You bring an idea for a script, and ask your fellow PowerShell users for [...]

Test Post using Microsoft One Note 2010

meson3902 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:44:06 +0000

pJust playing around with Microsoft One Note 2010 as described here: a href=”http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/12/16/blogging-with-onenote-2010-beta/”http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/12/16/blogging-with-onenote-2010-beta//a /p Share and Enjoy:

Configuring Altiris Deployment Solution to perform automated Citrix XenServer Host Builds

meson3902 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:29:00 +0000

digg_url = "http://www.cmschill.net/stringtheory/2009/06/28/configuring-altiris-deployment-solution-to-perform-automated-citrix-xenserver-host-builds/";digg_title = "Configuring Altiris Deployment Solution to perform automated Citrix XenServer Host Builds";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; In our environment we use Altiris Deployment Solution (DS) to perform a completely automated server build. My deployment jobs configure the hardware, install the operating system, Citrix XenApp, and [...]

[System.Version]

meson3902 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:16:02 +0000

digg_url = "http://www.cmschill.net/stringtheory/2009/06/01/systemversion/";digg_title = "[System.Version]";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; This afternoon there was a discussion about determining the version of PowerShell installed on the local system. Each of us had our own answer. Someone mentioned the [System.Version] .Net class. Its a relatively small class that might you might [...]

Post Your PowerShell Profile!

meson3902 — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:05 +0000

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Blog Rebuild

meson3902 — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:56:52 +0000

For the past several months I have had an issue with my blog, whenever I previewed a post in Windows Live Writer it would crash. I tried changing my theme and upgrading, but it didn’t solve the problem. So I just created a new WordPress installation from scratch. It seems to be working alright. Its [...]

Creating Outlook Tasks via PowerShell

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:46:32 +0000

I have recently been following the whole Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology created by David Allen. So far it has actually been helping me get organized. One of the things it mentions is to get tasks out of your head and down on “paper”. Otherwise you will be forgetting tasks and wondering what you are [...]

BitWise Operators

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:43:01 +0000

Today we will take a look at the Bitwise Operators in Windows PowerShell and how you can manipulate them for your needs. First we will get some insight into the enumeration. Let’s begin by looking at the values for the [System.IO.FileAttributes] enumeration which provides attributes for files and directories. As you can see from the table [...]