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Sep 3, 2015 • Adam Platt

PowerShell for Developers

Use Import-LocalizedData to Internationalize your Scripts

Whether you’re working with an enterprise client with a global presence or building a tool that you want to share with the world, you may find yourself wanting to build support for multiple languages into your scripts. The Import-LocalizedData Cmdlet is a simple and powerful way to achieve this. I put up a pair of posts about my recent experience with a globalization effort and how we were able to get a lot of functionality with only a few lines of code.

Sep 2, 2015 • Matt Laird

PowerShell for Admins

Basic Exchange Monitoring

Hello Powershell.org! This is the first time I’ve posted for anyone outside of my own powershell blog site PowerShellMasters.com and I just want to thank PowerShell.org for everything they do for our community. I think most of you would agree that this site is one of the best PowerShell sites out there today and I am grateful for the opportunity to reach so many PowerShell people. OK enough with the touchy-feely stuff.

Aug 28, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

PowerShell for Admins

List users logged on to your machines

Password policies are the best 😀 Sometimes they lead to account logouts when someone forgets to logout of a session somewhere on the network though. It might be the TS session they use once a quarter for reporting or maybe you know the feeling when you RDP to a server only to find that it is locked by 2 other admins who forgot to logoff when they left. (Off cause this never happens… we all use PowerShell…) Anyway, this had me searching for a user session somewhere on the network.

Aug 26, 2015 • Mike F Robbins

Announcements

TechSession Webinar: The Top 10 Considerations When Writing #PowerShell Advanced Functions

On Wednesday, September 2nd at 2pm EDT (1pm CDT), I’ll be presenting the September TechSession Webinar for PowerShell.org. The topic for this month’s session is: “The Top 10 Considerations When Writing PowerShell Advanced Functions”. Here’s what you can expect from my presentation: There are lots of things to consider when writing an advanced function in PowerShell depending on what the function will be designed to accomplish, what operating system and PowerShell versions it will be written for, and who will be using it.

Aug 20, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

PowerShell for Admins

Multithreading using jobs

Often I have had to check something against all servers or clients. A classic problem and every time I run into the it it’s time consuming and running the job multithreaded would be nice. A few years back I found a nice little script for multithreading which I have been using quite often. Unfortunately this wasn’t a module. And I can’t remember where it came from. So this week I set my mind on recreating this as a module and to see if I can publish it on PowerShell Gallery.

Aug 18, 2015 • John Mello

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – September 3rd 2015 with Max Trinidad

Join us on Thursday, September 3rd when Maximo Trinidad will be giving a talk called a “Creating a SQL Server Database Report with PowerShell”. As describe by Maximo: This is a deep dive on how to create a SQL Server report using PowerShell and SMO. At the same time, you will learn how to create and work with PowerShell objects, scriptblocks, formatting properties, and generating output results. We’ll be looking into creating a report to identify database properties irregularities.

Aug 17, 2015 • Don Jones

PowerShell for Admins

TEST IT: New IISAdministration Module

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s WebAdministration module isn’t universally loved. It’s functionality isn’t deep, and it doesn’t play well in the PowerShell pipeline. There are also a number of things in it that run really slowly, making bulk administration a pain. Last week, Baris Caglar announced that Windows 10 contains a new IISAdministration module, which is a rough draft of what is hoped to be a final module in Windows Server 2016.

Aug 16, 2015 • pscookiemonster

PowerShell for Admins

Abstraction and Configuration Data

Modularity and abstraction are a huge benefit in scripting and coding. Which of the following blocks of code are easier to understand? $SQLConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SQLConnection $SQLConnection.ConnectionString = 'Server=SqlServer1;Database=MyDB;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=15' $cmd = New-Object system.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM Table1",$SQLConnection) $ds = New-Object system.Data.DataSet $da = New-Object system.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter($cmd) [void]$da.fill($ds) $SQLConnection.Close() $ds.Tables[0] Or… # Invoke-Sqlcmd2 -ServerInstance SQLServer1 -Database MyDB -Query 'SELECT * FROM Table1' If you aren’t a masochist, the latter probably looks a bit nicer.

Aug 12, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

PowerShell for Admins

Template based parsing and progress bars

Working with wifi I have often needed to do a survey of the surroundings, and therefor I loved that windows 7 (maybe even Vista) introduced more advanced netsh with wifi support. There’s a lot of useful information but it might be nice to have a more graphical overview. The thing is that a text blob like this is not very handy to work with. Some time late last year I heard a guy from the powershell team on the Powerscripting podcast talk about ConvertFrom-String and the new template based parsing.

Aug 10, 2015 • Adam Bertram

Announcements

The Start Sharing Challenge

I’m back from Techmentor Redmond 2015 which was my first public speaking talk ever. It went great. I met a ton of great people and really enjoyed myself. When speaking to IT pros one of the questions I typically ask them is “Are you blogging or sharing your knowledge?”. 9 times out of 10 I get a big, fat no. Why? It’s because they feel like they have nothing to share.

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