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So I have signed up to work on a new book from Wiley called the “Windows PowerShell Bible”.  My co-authors include Douglas Finke, Tome Tanasovski, and Karl Mitschke with Marco Shaw as our Technical Editor. The book is tentatively scheduled for a June 2011 release. I will try and keep up my extensive posting schedule. Ok, maybe I will [...]

Community Driven Real Time Support « Jarian Gibson.

The inaugural meeting of the Atlanta PowerShell User Group will be held on Tuesday March 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. You can sign up now at http://powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga. Our first meeting will be a script club. What is a script club you ask? You bring an idea for a script, and ask your fellow PowerShell [...]

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In our environment we use Altiris Deployment Solution (DS) to perform a completely automated server build. My deployment jobs configure the hardware, install the operating system, Citrix XenApp, and supporting applications. At the end is a server, ready to take applications. We are now in the process of virtualizing our XenApp servers on XenServer and [...]

[System.Version]

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This afternoon there was a discussion about determining the version of PowerShell installed on the local system. Each of us had our own answer. Someone mentioned the [System.Version] .Net class. Its a relatively small class that might you might find useful. Lets take the Product Version of the PowerShell executable installed on my Windows 7 [...]

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I have recently been following the whole Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology created by David Allen. So far it has actually been helping me get organized. One of the things it mentions is to get tasks out of your head and down on “paper”. Otherwise you will be forgetting tasks and wondering what you are [...]

BitWise Operators

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Today we will take a look at the Bitwise Operators in Windows PowerShell and how you can manipulate them for your needs.  First we will get some insight into the enumeration. Let’s begin by looking at the values for the [System.IO.FileAttributes] enumeration which provides attributes for files and directories. As you can see from the [...]