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Re: Interview with Darren Mar-Elia from MMS 2012

Danny Guillory Jr — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:22:46 -0000

great interview great guy, i learned everyting i know about GPO from this guy and Jermy.. thanks guys for all your hardwork... definatly helped my carrer and even given talks locally on GPO and standardization.

Re: Day 1 From the PowerShell Deep Dive at TEC 2012

Peter Kriegel — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:00:10 -0000

I also hope that the sessions are recorded and going to public! Especially the Talk about Corporate
PowerShell Module Repository’s are in my interests! I have done a German
translation of Tome´s Blog entry’s on my Blog: http://www.admin-source.de

Re: Day 1 From the PowerShell Deep Dive at TEC 2012

Bartek Bielawski — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:28:01 -0000

I'd love to hear Tome's session on P/Invoke as this is one of topics that I'm just aware they exist, but never really tried to use them. I hope you guys are running camtasia in the background and we can expect those sessions online one day. ;) Have a great time today!

Re: A day in the life of a Poshoholic: Creating and using type accelerators and namespaces the easy way

Trevor Sullivan — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:16:58 -0000

I envision a domain name that looks something like: powercellerators.codeplex.com

Re: Provisioning and Licensing Office 365 Accounts with PowerShell

Josh — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:02:40 -0000

Check out
https://github.com/whatcomtran... for a module that will sync licensing based on group membership, among other things.

Re: PowerShell Wallpapers

Djarjosa — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:43:27 -0000

Getting a 'Download path is invalid!' page on the first 3. Anyway we could get the wallpapers back up?

Re: PowerShell: The Great Problem Solver

Anorhoads — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:46:47 -0000

So how about sharing your 3 scripts!

Re: My 10 best practices leading to the Scripting Games 2012 – Part II

Paul Chavez — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:17:11 -0000

Nice pair of articles. One thing I do with Write-Host is provide status on long running scripts/commands that do use Write-Output at the end for further processing. This gives you the ability to monitor your script but not mess up the rest of the pipeline.

Re: My 10 best practices leading to the Scripting Games 2012 – Part I

Udysweet — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:59:31 -0000

good job...proud of you

Re: Chocolatey and PowerShell – Revolutionize Windows, Part I

ferventcoder — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:17:06 -0000

Take a look at the helper reference -
https://github.com/chocolatey/...
Plus it's just powershell so you can do pretty much anything you want.

Re: Chocolatey and PowerShell – Revolutionize Windows, Part II

ferventcoder — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:04:16 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Chocolatey and PowerShell – Revolutionize Windows, Part I

ferventcoder — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:02:01 -0000

Yes it can. It's a pretty simple command. Take a look at 7zip.commandline (a
https://github.com/ferventcode...
Install-ChocolateyZipPackage '7zip.commandline' 'http://downloads.sourceforge.n... "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"The above is a one liner, to really see what you can do with chocolatey, take a look at ruby.devkit: https://github.com/ferventcode...

Re: Chocolatey and PowerShell – Revolutionize Windows, Part II

adamgovuk — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:42:14 -0000

Dude, YOU ROCK! I read part 1 and was really looking forward to part 2. Really good work!

Re: Pimp Your Profile

Donovan Smith — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:02:54 -0000

Thank you for the post. I really appreciate you taking the time to share insight and tips like this.

Re: Chocolatey and PowerShell – Revolutionize Windows, Part I

Graham Bloice — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:36:18 -0000

Rob,

That looks really neat, could it handle obtaining zip packages containing dll's and libraries for a complex build environment? I'm looking at reworking the build setup for Wireshark where we have a lot of dependencies that have to be downloaded and extracted to create the required build environment, and this is currently done using bash scripts that require a working Cygwin install.

Re: Helping Admins Getting Started with PowerShell

Notthatimportant — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:20:08 -0000

I'm an Exchange 2010 admin and use powershell every day. I hate it. It is a step back. Even MS Exchange tech's still struggle with it.

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:19:18 -0000

Unless otherwise indicated, brainteasers - and their solutions - should be set in a common and leveled field, i.e. a non-profile powershell session. Having said that, I don't think many systems would have 'Z' logical drive by default

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Bartek Bielawski — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:44:49 -0000

IMO gdr can lead to wrong results... prefer WMI/ .NET solutions. I just created 'E' drive that points to my registry and most of scripts here show F as first available letter. ;) Solutions that assume that first available = next in alphabet after last used fail miserably, because I have virtual cd 'Z' ;)
My 2 attempts (I admit, I was using Emim's ideas a lot:
([char[]](68..90)|?{!((gwmi cim_logicaldisk)-match"=.$_")})[0]
([char[]](68..90)|?{!([io.driveinfo]::GetDrives()-match$_)})[0]

This code is awful to read (kill me for using -match in such a way, I deserve it ;)).
And most likely has other flaws that in turn I missed. :>

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:49:26 -0000

Is the contest still open for one last trick?

# 24 chars:
[char](1+"$(gdr ?)"[-1])

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:16:23 -0000

# 36 chars, globbing avoids error handling:
([char[]](68..90)|?{!(gdr [$_])})[0]

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:45:47 -0000

# 32 chars, implicit cast through the left hand rule:
[char](1+[char](gdr ?)[-1].name)

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:39:16 -0000

That writes to disk though ;)

Re: Find an unused drive letter

P. — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:47:39 -0000

for($j=67;gdr($d=[char]++$j)2>0){}$d

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Elimelek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:58:38 -0000

# 37 chars:
for($j=67;gdr($d=[char]++$j)2>$e){}$d

# pipeline approach, 38 chars:
([char[]](68..90)|?{!(gdr $_)})[0]2>$e

Re: Find an unused drive letter

Bluraydisk — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:47:26 -0000

Great exercise, it cost me whole morning, but learn a lot.
Thanks, Claudio