Aleksandar is a PowerShell MVP and a co-founder of PowerShell Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at the conferences and participates regularly in IT Pro user groups worldwide. Recently, Aleksandar co-authored the highly respected Administrator’s Guide to Windows PowerShell Remoting. Follow him on Twitter at @alexandair
Aleksandar NikolicThe heat is on! The 3rd annual German PowerShell Community conference is taking place in Essen/Ruhr April 22 and 23. Hosted on the venue of the Philharmonics in Essen, Germany, twelve international speakers celebrate a very special and very passionate PowerShell happening with you.
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Aleksandar NikolicJust a few hours ago, Azure team released Microsoft Azure PowerShell 0.8.8. The new release has a lot of improvements and added a support for today’s Azure update–Role-Based Access Control in Azure Preview Portal.
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Aleksandar NikolicWe are pleased to announce the availability of Windows PowerShell 4.0 quick reference guides created by PowerShell Magazine. They are now part of “Windows PowerShell 4.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. TechEd North America 2014 has a nice Content Catalog page. It provides a few useful search criteria to filter the content and find the sessions you are mostly interested in.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 4.0 or above. PowerShell ISE 4.0 comes with just two DSC-related snippets (DSC Configuration (simple) and DSC Resource Provider (simple)).
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Aleksandar NikolicToday is PowerShell Magazine Day at Manning Books. Save 50% on these selected books. Just enter dotd1217cc in the Promotional Code box when you check out at manning.
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Aleksandar NikolicFew days ago the new version (0.6.17) of the Windows Azure PowerShell has been released. The Windows Azure PowerShell provides IT Pros and developers with Windows PowerShell cmdlets for building, deploying, and managing Windows Azure services.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. The next time you are working in a folder and need to open a Windows PowerShell console directly to that location, it would be nice to have ‘Open Windows PowerShell Here as Administrator’ option on a context menu.
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Aleksandar NikolicWe are happy to announce that PowerShell Magazine is an “Alliance Media Partner” for the TechMentor Las Vegas conference. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides you with immediately usable IT education that will keep you relevant in the workforce.
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Aleksandar NikolicWe are all eager to see what Microsoft will announce at the TechEd North America 2013 conference that starts on Monday.
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Aleksandar NikolicI’ve had a pleasure to speak at PowerShell Summit North America 2013. I would like to thank the organizers, all attendees–amazing, passionate PowerShellers who made this event such a huge success, Microsoft and PowerShell team, and a few generous individuals who helped me to be a part of an unforgettable experience.
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Aleksandar NikolicThe MMS 2013 conference starts next week. The keynote and sessions will be available for replay through the Channel 9 web site.
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Aleksandar NikolicWe are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing again and are organizing a giveaway especially for you.
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Aleksandar NikolicFew days ago the new version (0.6.10) of the Windows Azure PowerShell has been released. The Windows Azure PowerShell provides IT Pros and developers with Windows PowerShell cmdlets for building, deploying, and managing Windows Azure services.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. PowerShell has the $error automatic variable. It contains a collection of the errors that occurred while the PowerShell engine has been running.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Tab completion and IntelliSense (in ISE) are greatly improved in PowerShell 3.0. They provide names of cmdlets, functions, scripts, workflows, parameters, object properties and methods, paths, files, variables, and even enumeration values.
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Aleksandar NikolicOne of PowerShell’s most common uses is to collect data and then generate reports from that data. There are a number of different formats in which PowerShell can export data for reporting purposes, such as CSV, XML, and HTML.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you work interactively with PowerShell, you don’t want to type too much.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. You’ve updated your PowerShell help using the Update-Help cmdlet and you are pretty sure that you’ve got help files for PSWorkflow and PSScheduledJob modules as well.
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Aleksandar NikolicHello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we would like to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a number of very interesting and creative solutions.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets have the -UserAgent parameter, so you can specify a user agent string for the web request.
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Aleksandar NikolicToday we have a real treat for you–an excerpt about the Windows PowerShell Workflow feature from the upcoming book Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Luncheswritten by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks.
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Aleksandar NikolicHello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we need to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a lot of answers, but only three of them fulfilled all requirements ( the answers that use -split operator, the Split() method, or regex return the String objects, not System.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. This command is useful when you want to perform some tests or if you work in an environment where you use the standard and admin user accounts.
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Aleksandar NikolicThe second edition of Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks’s bestseller, Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches, is released as an eBook.
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Aleksandar NikolicIf you start Windows PowerShell with the Run as Administrator option and then type Update-Help -Force -Verbose you should get the new version of some PowerShell Help XML-based files and About topics.
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Aleksandar NikolicThere are a lot of ways to remove the first line from a text file. I hope you will find a multiple assignment technique interesting.
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Aleksandar NikolicNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0. Before you start using PowerShell 3.0, learn about the Updatable Help feature first. The about_Updatable_Help help topic is a good place to start.
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Aleksandar NikolicWhen you run the new Update-Help cmdlet in PowerShell 3.0, it downloads and installs Help files, but you also get HelpInfo XML files.
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Aleksandar NikolicEach PowerShell drive (PSDrive) has its own notion of current working directory (CurrentLocation): PS C:\> Get-PSDrive d,c Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root CurrentLocation ---- --------- --------- -------- ---- --------------- D 295.
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Aleksandar NikolicIt’s pretty easy to find path to your Documents folder with a little help from .NET Framework’s Environment class: PS> [Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyDocuments') C:\Users\Administrator\Documents You can accomplish the same using the identifier name Personal:
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Aleksandar NikolicLet’s presume you have a text file that contains the following two lines: My current user profile is $env:USERPROFILE. The system folder is $env:windir\System32.
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Aleksandar NikolicIn the previous tip, we’ve showed you how to get a function definition using cool and unusual technique. Can we use the Get-Command cmdlet to get the same result?
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Aleksandar NikolicThe ConvertTo-Html cmdlet converts Microsoft .NET Framework objects into HTML that can be displayed in a Web browser. In the following example we pick up a few properties of process objects with name that contains the word ‘host’, sort the output by the ‘Handles’ property, convert it to HTML, and save it as HTML file in the user’s TEMP folder.
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Aleksandar NikolicQuite easy, with a one-liner. Windows Server 2012 provides Windows PowerShell cmdlets and WMI objects to manage SMB file servers and SMB file shares.
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Aleksandar NikolicThe Startup type information is not available when we use the Get-Service cmdlet. Luckily the Win32_Service WMI class has a StartMode property that we can use to create a nice server-side filter.
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Aleksandar NikolicWe are pleased to announce the availability of Windows PowerShell 3.0 quick reference guides that PowerShell Magazine has created and are now part of “Windows PowerShell 3.
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Aleksandar NikolicCourtesy of TrainSignal (a hat tip to Kasia Lorenc) we are presenting an interview with Thomas Lee conducted at TechEd NA 2011 in Atlanta.
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Aleksandar NikolicCourtesy of TrainSignal (a hat tip to Kasia Lorenc) we are presenting an interview with Don Jones conducted at TechEd NA 2011 in Atlanta.
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Aleksandar NikolicPowerShell Magazine is starting a series of posts with personal stories about people’s PowerShell beginnings entitled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows PowerShell”.
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Aleksandar NikolicIdera, a well-known provider of Windows PowerShell management and administration solutions, today announced PowerShell Plus v4.1, the advanced Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for Windows PowerShell.
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