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Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Planning the PowerShell Summit North America 2014

We’re already planning for the 2014 Summit… you have to get way out in front of these things to secure space, plan a budget, and more. Here’s what we know: We’ll definitely still be in the Seattle metro area. That’s the best way to ensure participation from the …

Richard Siddaway

Select-string "“ keeping in context

Today"™s question involves using the Context parameter: *It’s probably just me, but I’ve never gotten the switch ‘-context 5 *or -context 2, 7′ to work predictably – where 5 lines before and after or 2 before and 7 after will come out – have you? Let"™s start by looking …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Writing 10961A: The Damn Variables

When I wrote Microsoft course 10325A, their original 5-day Windows PowerShell course, I saved variables until Module 11. My thought at the time was to focus on teaching just what students needed for what they were about to do - and no more. “Just in time learning” can be effective, …

Richard Siddaway

Workflow article 3

The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published. The articles in the series that have been published are: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx …

Richard Siddaway

Select-String"“information on matching files

Following on from yesterday"™s post this is the second question: Since I’m recursively searching thru files to find matching phrases, how can I obtain other directory service information about the matching files file(s) – this is more of a methodology technique question because I realize …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

3 Updated Free PowerShell eBooks in January 2013!

I’ve been working to update my three free PowerShell ebooks for this month: Secrets of PowerShell Remoting Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell Making Historical and Trend Reports in PowerShell The updated versions will be made available to subscribers of the PowerShell.org TechLetter on …

Richard Siddaway

Select-String scenarios "“ fixed columns

I had some questions come in after mu recent post regarding select-string. I"™ll answer them as a series of posts. First off: I’m recursively searching thru many files, and want to pull out specific data in ‘fixed column’ positions from the line(s) that match the phrase …