Mike Wilbur's Blog
Renaming a network connection with netsh
Example: netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" newname="ExampleLan"
Date: 08/01/2007
Powershell Template Engine
A template engine that allows you to have powershell expressions in your templates is a very...
Date: 03/15/2007
get-SHA256
Get the SHA256 hash in one line of powershell: function get-sha256...
Date: 03/14/2007
get-datatable.ps1
get-datatable.ps1 is an improvement on the get-dataset.ps1 from an earlier post. Instead of...
Date: 03/10/2007
Managing Performance Counters via Command Line
When it comes to scripting the setup of performance counters Logman is your friend; and Relog comes...
Date: 03/09/2007
Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK)
It's great to see powerful tools be made publicly available; winpe and imagex are powerful tools...
Date: 02/28/2007
Updating a DataSet with Powershell and saving changes back to SQL
This example uses the AdventureWorks sample database. # get the dataset PS C:\demo> $ds =...
Date: 02/26/2007
Capturing SQL Generated by SMO in Powershell
The following example uses the get-sqlserver.ps1 script in my search path. get-sqlserver.ps1: param...
Date: 02/24/2007
EventTriggers
This could be usefull; I always like knowing about obscure commands that are on every box I work...
Date: 02/24/2007
Connect to and Shadow the Console Session with Terminal Services
This KB article shows how you have two separate TS sessions connected to the console:How to Connect...
Date: 02/24/2007
Remote Desktop shortcut keys
Remote Desktop has some really handy shortcuts that are documented right there in the help file:...
Date: 02/24/2007
Powershell script that can schedule itself to run later
From time to time I find it useful to schedule tasks to run on my machine. I often realize that many...
Date: 02/23/2007
Powershell 1 liner: Key Value pairs from text file to hashtable
Example Problem:You have a text file that contains key value pair and you want to use them as a hash...
Date: 02/23/2007