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Manipulating the Registry with PowerShell

In case you missed it, back in October, Shay wrote a cool set of functions for working with the registry. Here’s the list: Get-RegBinary Get-RegDWord Get-RegDefault Get-RegExpandString Get-RegMultipleString Get-RegQuadWord Get-RegString Get-RegValueKind New-RegSubKey Remove-RegSubKey …

Episode 14 – The IDEs are getting better

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode News: Software updates, books, PS Virtual User Group (recording will be available) In Resources, we’ll tell you about an interview with Jeffrey Snover, and several pieces of software. Cmdlet of the Week: New-Object In Tips, …

Episode 12 – Our first guest, Brandon Shell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Jam-packed show today! We ran so long, we had to skip the cmdlet-of-the-week segment! We have a Special Guest, and in fact our first guest, Brandon Shell, an MVP in Automation and author of the BSonPosh blog. News CTP! Unless you’ve been …

Creating and using custom objects

Listener Mace writes: I’ve seen this code: $values = new-object ‘object[,]’ 5,2 Can you expound on that? The author fills the array. $k = 0 foreach ($j in $exchangeserverlist) { $perf = New-Object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter($perfobj1, $counter1, $instance1, $j.Name) …

Get free disk space one-liner

Listener Bill writes, I have been looking at the get-help and get-member cmdlets, but have so far not found one thing I want to have as a “one-liner” - a command line that will return the free space on a certain drive. **""${env:computername}","" + (gwmi -Query …

Episode 11 – A new PowerShell community

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Big thanks to Shay and his PowerShell Radio post. 🙂 News PowerShell Community (powershellcommunity.org) “Real” non-profit organization created by corporate sponsors including Microsoft, Quest, Sapien, and ShellTools. Event …

Episode 9 – PowerShell V2 news is coming in November

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Thanks to //o// and Kirk at Poshoholic for mentioning us on their blogs. We loved Kirk’s post about namespaces with the Star Trek references. That’s the Trouble with Tribbles! News According to Bruce Payette in this post, details …

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