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Scheduled Tasks

Keeping on the theme of Scheduled Tasks I wanted to dig into the tasks that exist on my system.  I did a fresh install of Windows 7 in August and haven’t created any scheduled tasks – so what I see should be close to the system defaults.  This...

Get-PSDrive

Get-PsDrive has been one of those cmdlets that you use without really noticing – when you want to see if a provider is loaded for instance. In the Windows 7 RC the display has had a makeover. PS> Get-PSDrive Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root CurrentLocation...

Computername parameter

This is something I’ve been meaning to share for a while. Many of the cmdlets in PowerShell v2 get an explicit remoting capability via the computername property. get-help * -Parameter computername | sort name Clear-EventLog Connect-WSMan Disconnect-WSMan...