PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast

Download the MP3 Podcast In this episode we look at how you can power down or reboot computers on your network. We also realize that this is the easiest way to learn how to do the same for any Windows 8 computer. Restart-Computer -ComputerName (gc c:\computerlist.txt) -ThrottleLimit 64 -Force Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org

Download the MP3 Podcast In this episode we look at a few commonly overlooked providers and what they contain. Try the following: cd variable: dir cd env: dir cd function: dir Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org

Download the MP3 Podcast In this episode we look at how we can turn PowerShell objects into comma separated strings and files Append Example: Get-Process |select name,id |ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation |select -Skip 1 |out-file filetoappend.txt Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org

Download the MP3 Podcast In this episode we explore all of the possibilities for one of the most used PowerShell cmdlets. Basic Example: Get-Process |select name, id Parameters discussed: First Last Skip Unique Return a string collection of the process names rather than an object with only a name property Get-Process |select -ExpandProperty Name Return the collection that exists within the access property Get-Acl |select -ExpandProperty Access Create a custom property with Name/Expression Hash Get-Process |select @{Name='Modified Name';Expression={$_.Name + "_Modified"}} Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org

Download the MP3 Podcast In this episode we look at how you can stop the pipeline and suppress output with Out-Null. Brought to you by The Windows PowerShell Bible 2.0 and PowerShellGroup.Org