Shay Levy

Improving the output of Update-Help

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:10:00 GMT

Source: PowerShellMagazine.com If you’ve updated PowerShell to version 3.0 you probably noticed that help is no longer shipped in the box. PowerShell 3.0 includes a new feature, the...

Skipping empty CSV objects

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Hi, it’s been a while since my last post, I’ve been busy mostly at work and also by investing most of my time running the PowerShell Magazine website together with my friends. I hope to post more in...

Congratulations 2012 Microsoft MVP

ScriptFanatic — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:37:57 GMT

I’ve just received THE email from Microsoft… I’m a PowerShell MVP for another year! I am very honored! This is my 5th renewal and I would like to take this opportunity and say thank you to...

What is my Exchange server version

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:32:00 GMT

I’ve been asking myself the same question lately. Unfortunately the information is not always available in the product’s title or in Add/Remove programs. The only piece of available information is...

Deprecation of cmdlets

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:46:23 GMT

Until PowerShell 3.0, if you shipped a cmdlet there was no good way to deprecate it. Cmdlet developers can use the .NET ObsoleteAttribute now to let users know that they should not use a cmdlet...

Creating objects with a cast in PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Starting with PowerShell 3.0, we now have another cool way to create new objects. We can create them by calling the default constructor of the type and initializing its properties with a cast: ...

How to protect your PowerShell Functions

ScriptFanatic — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Creating functions in PowerShell is relatively a simple operation. You declare the function’s name and value, press the Enter key and you’re good to go. It is also very simple to override the...

Custom objects default display in PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT

In PowerShell 3.0 we can now create new custom objects using a hash table. PS> [PSCustomObject]@{ One = 1 Two = 2 Three = 3 Four = 4 Five = 5 } One : 1 Two : 2 Three :...

Add-Member enhancements in PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT

PowerShell 3.0 offers new ways to add Note properties to objects. In PowerShell 2.0, a typical command to do that would look like: PS> New-Object -TypeName PSObject | Add-Member -MemberType...

Measuring objects in PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:03:00 GMT

The Measure-Object cmdlet gives us a great way to find minimum and maximum values in a collection of objects. For example, if we want to know the smallest and largest size of a file in the current...

Leveraging Proxy Functions in PowerShell

ScriptFanatic — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:27:00 GMT

@DSotnikov just released the video recording of the session from the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt (last year). In this video, MVP Kirk Munro (poshoholic) and I demoed a project we've been...

Counting objects in PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:31:00 GMT

Consider the following command, how many objects are in $dir? PS> $dir = Get-ChildItem The most common way to find it is to check the Count property: PS> $dir.Count But… the...

Auto reconnect to a server you just rebooted with PowerShell 3.0

ScriptFanatic — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:51:00 GMT

Yesterday I saw a tweet that caught my eye: Sounds familiar? What do you usually do to reconnect to your server once it is back online? How do you monitor it’s availability? In this post, Justin...

PSRR - Remote Registry PowerShell 3.0 Module

ScriptFanatic — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; One of the new improvements in the .NET Framework version 4 is the Microsoft.Win32.RegistryView enumeration. On the 64-bit version...

The PowerShell Experts Video Series

ScriptFanatic — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:54:00 GMT

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; PowerShell Magazine has started the PowerShell Experts Video Series, a series of short video interviews conducted at the PowerShell Deep...