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PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 Agenda

The agenda for the PowerShell Deep Dive next month has just been published on the PowerShell team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/03/26/schedule-for-the-upcoming-powershell-deep-dive-and-a-few-videos-from-frankfurt.aspx If you are...

PowerShell Deep Dive speakers

Some more sessions have been announced for the Deep Dive http://www.theexpertsconference.com/europe/2011/powershell-deep-dive/session-abstracts/ The speaker line up includes: Aleksandar Nikolic Shay Levy Kirk Munro Dmitry Sotnikov Jeffery Hicks James...

PowerShell Deep Dive abstracts

With the Deep Dive just over 6 weeks away the programme is shaping up.Abstracts of some of the sessions can be viewed http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/09/01/8-abstracts-for-the-powershell-deep-dive-in-frankfurt.aspx   I will also be...
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European Deep Dive–more info

More information plus registration details from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/07/20/powershell-deep-dive-registration-info-amp-call-for-session-proposals.aspx The one in Vegas in April was brilliant.  This is going to be better
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Method definitions

When we are dealing with .NET objects we have methods and properties to deal with. Properties are easy. lets create a simple object $str = "QWERTYUIOP"   put our string object into get-member to see the properties $str | Get-Member -MemberType...
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Splat

It sounds like something that should pop up on the TV while watching a rerun of the 1960s Batman TV series.  Its not though. Splatting is another way of passing parameters to commands.  This command shouldn’t come as a surprise. Get-ChildItem...
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PoshWSUS

One of the people I met at the recent PowerShell Deep Dive was Boe Prox.  Among other claims to fame he has produced a PowerShell module for administering WSUS. http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/ The latest version was posted in January 2011 and further...
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PowerShell Deep Dive: IV Formatting script

During Jeff Hicks’ talk about formatting he did the usual demo of taking an extract of a format file and modify it to create a new default format.  Jim Truher mentioned that he had a script that would generate the XML for a format file and that he...
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PowerShell Deep Dive: II Win32_Volume

One question that I was asked at the deep dive - Is there a way to link a disk volume back to the physical disk it resides on? There doesn’t seem to be. If we test the WMI classes associated with a volume we get these results Win32_Directory Win32_QuotaSetting...
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PowerShell Deep Dive: I–COM collections

The PowerShell Deep Dive last week was the best conference I have ever attended. The group consisted of members of the PowerShell team, Ed Wilson – the Scripting Guy, PowerShell MVPs and a large number of PowerShell experts and enthusiasts.  The...
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