Simple tip for PowerShell

Been doing more in PowerShell every week and while I’m far from being an expert I definitely enjoy what it offers. I’m always looking for tips and tricks to get the most out of PoSh and one came in my inbox today.
A short article by Jeffery Hicks pointed out something simple that makes perfect sense. [...]

Send Email using PowerShell from CSV data file

Just finished phase 1 of a project which required sending out an automated survey email to a dynamic list of people. The email message is the same in all of these except for an ID number embedded in a link within the message. Currently the list of emails along with the ID is automatically dumped [...]

PowerShell Notes

Been doing some projects in PowerShell lately and have found tons of great info available online to learn from. I was reading some old blogs and came across this link that talks about how to include help info in your PS functions:
This sample is from Media and MicroCode:

#.Synopsis
#      Turns a Hashtable into a PowerShell object
#.Description
#      [...]

Running PowerShell from your Mobile Phone

While I realistically don’t see myself doing this anytime soon I thought this was a really cool idea…Dmitry has a detailed write up on how to Execute PowerShell Scripts from your smartphone to have the ability to send a PowerShell script from your mobile phone and have it run on your servers back at the [...]

Remote system stats

At our last Palm Beach IT meeting we talked about PowerShell and some of the great things it allows you to accomplish. Here’s a site that actually shows what we talked about, monitoring systems remotely using PowerShell & MRTG. The WSMAN Instrumentation Examples page uses MRTG to graph the PowerShell stats but we had also [...]

Pause in PowerShell script

While putting together a demo for PowerShell the other day, I wanted to setup a script that would run each section of my demo without having to run a new script for each one (Lazy Admin in training!) Here’s a simple little function that replicates the old DOS based Pause command from the PowerShell Team [...]