Jason Hofferle
Thank you to everyone that attended the Orlando IT Pro Camp. It was a great opportunity to learn and network with other IT Professionals. Here are the slides and resources from my sessions. Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Slide deck for Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Layman’s Guide to PowerShell 2.0 Remoting Ravikanth Chaganti Administrator’s Guide to [...]
I’m usually pretty happy with the default PowerShell prompt that displays the current path, however sometimes I just want a generic prompt for screenshots or a demonstration. With an infinite number of custom PowerShell prompts possible, it became apparent that the appropriate prompt depends on the current task. By copying the Set-Prompt function into $Env:UserProfile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1, [...]
Checking boxes gets old quickly, and I’ve installed and checked those little boxes for the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Windows 7 enough times for it to be annoying. I just wanted a static script with the names of the features to enable, but Xenophane’s Blog has some examples of extracting the output of [...]
I will be presenting two sessions at the Orlando IT Pro Camp on January 21st. IT Pro Camp is a free, one-day learning event for IT Professionals. There will be a wide range of topics presented by speakers of all backgrounds and experience. I highly recommend stopping by if you’re in the Orlando area that [...]
Last night I gave a presentation on using version control for the Tampa PowerShell User Group. This presentation was mostly a demo of using TortoiseHg, and how it can be useful for IT Pros that need to manage production scripts. Here is the slide deck and links to more information. Version Control for PowerShell Slide [...]
Microsoft released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Management Framework 3.0, which includes PowerShell v3. This can be installed on Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1. This is a pre-release version to allow the IT community to review the software and provide feedback. Windows Management Framework 3.0 – Community Technology Preview [...]
Microsoft released the Windows 8 developer preview last night, which includes PowerShell version 3! The IT Pros that couldn’t sleep last night are reporting hundreds of new cmdlets and functions over what’s available in Windows 7. The Windows 8 developer preview can be downloaded at the Windows Dev Center.
Software developers wouldn’t think of working on a project without some type of version control for their source code. So why is this is a rare topic for IT Pros that maintain production scripts with hundreds or thousands of lines of code? Version control, revision control and source control are terms used to describe the [...]
When I needed to build a collection of PowerShell resources for our internal IT personnel, I had trouble finding a comprehensive list of all the freely available eBooks out there. I thought it would be worth spending a few minutes collecting these links in a single place. If you know of any that I’m missing, [...]
