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Tue, Aug 2 2011 22:28

A count down timer

Last month I started playing with WPF to show how a multi-coloured clock could  be displayed on screen. This was picked up and an easier version was created by Doug Finke using the ShowUI module from codeplex  http://showui.codeplex.com/ . Other...
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Sun, Jun 19 2011 9:33

Snapins to modules

In PowerShell v1 we had snapins to extend and add functionality. In PowerShell v2 modules were added. Modules give us more flexibility and control. I’ve had to re-install a couple of snapins recently as part of the preparation for the presentation to...
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Tue, May 24 2011 8:17

Advanced Function template

In this post I showed my Advanced Function template  http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/05/13/powershell-module-construction.aspx I’ve since modified it to add the parameter validation methods. I can never remember them all so decided...
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Sun, May 22 2011 11:35

New PAM version

I’ve added the 0.6 release of the PowerShell Admin Modules to codeplex - http://psam.codeplex.com/ This release adds two modules PAMADSNAPSHOT – functions for work with AD snapshots in Windows 2008 & 2008 R2 PAMLOAD – loads all of the PAM modules...
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Fri, May 13 2011 20:14

PowerShell Module Construction

I’ve created a fair number of PowerShell modules over the last year or so. I’ve experimented with various configurations: multiple functions in a single .psm1 file single function per file all loaded from the .psm1 file modules with and without manifests...
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Tue, May 10 2011 22:10

PowerShell UK User Group–May meeting slides and recording

Thanks again to Jonathan Medd for an excellent session on PowerShell modules. As promised the slides and demo scripts are available on Jonathan’s blog http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2011/05/slides-from-uk-powershell-user-group-session-on-modules.html  ...
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Tue, Oct 26 2010 19:21

Creating a module

I’m writing a new PowerShell book and have got to the fun bit where I’m creating lots of scripts. I wanted to supply these as a series of modules. So each individual listing is a function. But I don’t want to manually maintain the module file as I’m working...
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Tue, Jun 1 2010 22:02

PAM 0.2

I’ve released the second module for the PowerShell Admin Modules tonight.  It is available from http://psam.codeplex.com/releases/view/46364 This release includes two modules. PAMShare (originally in PAM 0.1) contains the following functions: Get...
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Wed, May 12 2010 20:33

PSCX 2.0 install

I mentioned last time that PSCX 2.0 was available. There is a very wide range of functionality available in the form of functions and cmdlets: Cmdlets Add-PathVariable                       ...
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Tue, May 11 2010 21:38

PowerShell Community Extensions 2.0

I’ve mentioned the Community Extensions many times in these posts. Version 2.0 is now available http://www.codeplex.com/wikipage?ProjectName=Pscx . It installs as a PowerShell module – much easier and neater. I’ve blogged about the beta a few times –...
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Tue, May 11 2010 19:15

Hex Subtraction

Again this takes the pattern from the binary function and adapts it to work with hex 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 ## this will always subtract value2 from value1 function   Get-HexDifference   { param (    ...
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Tue, May 11 2010 19:14

Hex Addition

We’ve looked at the binary functions – now its time to look at the hex functions starting with addition. 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 function   Get-HexSum   { param (     [string] $inputvalue1 ,    ...
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Fri, May 7 2010 21:37

Binary Subtraction

Continuing our look at maths functions in binary (hex is to come) lets have a quick look at subtraction   001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 function   Get-BinaryDifference   { param (     [string...
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Thu, May 6 2010 22:27

Binary Addition

We recently looked at converting numbers to binary and hex.  I then thought that I sometimes need to perform simple arithmetic in these bases so – binary addition. We can use the functions we already have.  Convert a couple of numbers to binary...
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Mon, May 3 2010 12:32

Number conversions

I often have to do conversions between decimal, hex and binary so I decided I wanted some functions to do this for me 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034...
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Sun, Apr 25 2010 16:34

PowerShell Admin Modules

I have created the first download for the PowerShell Admin Modules. This will be a set of of modules including code previously published on my blogs at: http://msmvps.com/blogs/RichardSiddaway/Default.aspx http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/powershell...
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Tue, Apr 20 2010 20:44

PowerShell UG Recording April 20

Thanks to everyone who came on to the Live Meeting tonight.  For anyone who missed it: The slides and demo are available on my sky drive at http://cid-43cfa46a74cf3e96.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/PowerShell%20User%20Group/April%202010 The recording...
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Mon, Apr 19 2010 21:18

UG Reminder

The PowerShell UG Live Meeting is tomorrow night (20 April) at 7.30pm BST.  Subject is modules. Details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2010/04/12/powershell-user-group-live-meeting-modules.aspx Technorati Tags: PowerShell ,...
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Mon, Apr 12 2010 16:58

Powershell User Group Live Meeting: Modules

When: Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 7:30 PM (BST) Where: Virtual *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Notes We will cover the new module functionality introduced with PowerShell v2 with a biref look at some of the functionality available in Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 Richard Siddaway...
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Mon, Mar 22 2010 22:13

Module Structure

Since PowerShell 2.0 appeared I have been steadily converting a lot of scripts to modules. Up until now I have been using a single .psm1 file (and possibly a .psd1 file for the manifest).  The .psm1 file contains all of the functions.  Some...
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