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Manning have released another set of chapters in their early access program for PowerShell Deep Dives. If you have an interest in PowerShell I would strongly urge you to buy a copy. It has chapters from a number of well known PowerShell authors together with some very good material from new authors. Best of all the royalties are going to charity.
A very busy time coming up in PowerShell land with the first PowerShell Summit kicking off in just over a week"™s time. The 2013 Scripting Games will also be starting very soon. I"™ll try and post about both of them as time allows
I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012. I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine – that"™s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk. A module new to Windows 2012 & Windows can be used. Its the Storage module. I"™ve not had chance, or reason, to play with this module yet. So many cmdlets so little time.
Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable in Windows 2008 R2. The difference with Windows Server 2012 is that you can do restores from PowerShell cmdlets whcih wasn"™t available in the earlier version. The restore cmdlets are
I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows. Consider the world"™s simplest workflow workflow test-w1 {“hello world”} If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8 PowerShell machine ““ it works If I run this on Windows 2012 (64bit) on PowerShell it works if I run this on Windows 2012 PowerShell (x86) ““ it doesn"™t work! Be aware of how you are running your workflows
The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released: Chapter 8 ““ creating Group Policies details from http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/
My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning"™s deal of the day for 6 April 2013. The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours. This is your chance to get the book with a 50% discount. Use code dotd0406au at manning.com/siddaway2/ The Deal of the Day offer also applies to SharePoint Workflow in Action ****(http://www.manning.com/wicklund/). Enjoy
I often need to create file names that include the date & time the file was created in the name. I"™ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest. I want the date in this format: year-month-day-hour-minute-second. In other words a format that is easily sortable. I discovered that if you convert a data to a string there is a formatter that does most of the work for you.
The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning. Today is PowerShell in Practice http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/03/excel-spreadsheets.aspx Check out the deals all this week on Manning PowerShell books
This afternoon I received the email notifying me that my MVP award had been renewed for another year. Thank you to Microsoft ““ I regard the award as a great honour. And thank you to the PowerShell community ““ its a great place to be