Comments for Posh Tips

Comment on The Number One Best PowerShell Script on this site by Sami

Sami — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:46:38 +0000

Sorry, found it in your script

Thanks

Comment on Run External Commands through PowerShell by Sami

Sami — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:53:09 +0000

Is that a backtick before the number 80 ?? What is it needed for ?

TIA

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by xb90

xb90 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:15:17 +0000

I’m guessing that your DNS infrastructure will determine whether you get ipV6 or ipV4 results from the GetHostEntry method call. If anyone else is more savvy on this, feel free to post a comment.

Thanks!

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:09:37 +0000

Is there any way to force the -DNSLookUp piece to use IPv4 when writing the IP address instead of writing MAC address?

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by Mikhail

Mikhail — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:16:56 +0000

Hello, Tom.

Here’s, I think the solution

$hostlist = (Get-ADComputer -Searchbase “OU=Computers, dc=domainname, dc=com” -f * |% {$_.name}) | select -skip $offset -first $batchsize

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by Tom

Tom — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:50:37 +0000

The problem were the spaces that were written to the textfile created with the out-file command (I don’t have a clue why). If you delete them after creating the hosts file BgPing works.

Comment on Kill a hung process with PowerShell by Robin Kay

Robin Kay — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Also, these will work:

ps iex* | kill

kill -name ie*

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by xb90

xb90 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:35:10 +0000

I am not at all familiar with powergui cmdlets, but I’ll bet that the list you are generating is not in a standard text format. I suggest that you generate your host list with output to a text file so that you can inspect the contents and make sure that you have only host names (1 per line) and no extraneous characters.

Hope this helps…

Comment on BgPing – A High Performance Bulk Ping Utility by Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:10:14 +0000

I can’t get this script to work with a list I create with the Get-QADComputer Commandlet. (All failed with 99999)
Can any of the readers give me a working example of this approach?

Comment on How to Parse CSV data by xb90

xb90 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:32:07 +0000

Let’s say that your file is named “names.txt”

Here’s how you can reformat the data as First Letter of First Name + Last Name :

gc names.txt | % {$_.split(“,”)[1][0] + $_.split(“,”)[0]}

here’s the output:

BSmith
RChicken
ACar

Explanation:

gc = get-content from the file

then pipe to the split method (parsed by comma)
$_.split(“,”)[1][0] = get first letter of the first name
$_.split(“,”)[0] = get the entire last name

use the plus “+” operator to concatenate the two name elements

hopefully this makes sense

good luck!