PoSh Tip: Output cmdlets

Output cmdlets in powershell v2

PS> get-command out-* | ft name

Name
----
out-default
out-file
out-gridview
out-host
out-null
out-printer
out-string

Out-Null: discards command output similar to $null redirect

Out-File: redirects command output to a file

Out-Printer: sends formatted output to the default printer 

Out-gridview: opens a formatted table in a modern windows interface

Popular Powershell Add-ons

Popular Powershell Add-on Utilities

Name	Purpose	Author	Download	Price
Power Gui	Graphical editor	Quest Software	http://www.quest.com/powergui-freeware/	Free
Power Gui Pro	Graphical Editor	Quest Software	http://www.quest.com/powerguipro/	$199.00
ActiveRoles Management Shell	Active Directory Command add-on	Quest Software	http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx	Free
Powershell WMI Explorer	WMI tool	MoW	http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/pages/powershell-wmi-explorer.aspx	Free
PSHyperV	Hyper-V command Add-on	Jamesone	http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/	Free
Power Prompt Here	Context menu ad-on	Scott Hanselman	http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingPowerShellPromptHere.aspx	Free
Powershell tools for IT admins	Misc Tools add-on	Christophe Cremon	http://powershell.codeplex.com/	Free

PoSh Tip: Powershell remoteing

have you ever run into a situation where you needed to run some quick code on a remote system but were to lazy to use mstsc.Exe to remote to the system. will with powershell v2 Lazy admin can becom more productive with Invoke-Command cmdlet, and if your like me and hate typing the alias for this command is ICM. It allows you to Invoke a block of code on a remote system. Awasome !!! here is a quick example of who this cam be used to check the status of an Edge server in your perimeter network

Function Status-Edge01{

imc Edge01 {

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin -ea 0 

test-servicehealth

get-queue

}

}

GeekTip: Shutdown Networked computers

Ever wonder how System administrators restart IT assets on there network so quickly after a Microsoft Patch Tuesday? Well here is one of the tricks of the trade. Open up your command line interpreter such as command prompt or Powershell. you can also use the windows run command to run "shutdown.exe /i" this opens the shutdown executable in interactive mode allowing you to restart or shutdown any system you have access to on your network! How bad ass is that.