Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/13
How bad is the Windows command line really?
The Windows command line is bad. Very bad.
But it took until recently for old Windows versions – that out of the box had either no or poor PowerShell versions – to have slowly died.
So only now PowerShell finally has become an option that really works across all Windows versions I use. Go PowerShell!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/09
Lets start with the second problem: There are various ways to redirect PowerShell output to a file.
>) to create/overwrite output or two greater than signs (>>) to append output.-FilePath (default, similar to >) or -Append (similar >>).I write “similar” as they are not fully equivalent. That’s where Format-Table [WayBack] with the -AutoSize parameter comes in (with or without a -Wrap parameter).
Apart from Format-Table displaying only 10 columns by default (see below), the -AutoSize will change columns presentation depending not just on the -Wrap parameter but also to the total width it thinks it has available.
Format-Table parametersFirst the representation:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03
I got a bit fed-up with the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight reappearing as KB3056819 in each Windows Update within minutes of hiding it (I’m not alone on this, it does this when you have configured to favour the Microsoft Update Servers – that also update Office – in favour of the Windows Update Servers).
Two really odd things:
So I wanted a script that every minute could check for a Microsoft Silverlight update, then hide it.
That appeared a lot more cumbersome than I anticipated, hence this blog post.
The reason is that unlike many other operating systems, Windows does not come with a build-in package manager that you can script (there is Windows Installer, but is’s not easily scriptable).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/15
Need to research this a bit further as this works:
powershell gwmi -Query 'Select LocalName, RemoteName, UserName from Win32_NetworkConnection'
__GENUS : 2
__CLASS : Win32_NetworkConnection
__SUPERCLASS :
__DYNASTY :
__RELPATH :
__PROPERTY_COUNT : 3
__DERIVATION : {}
__SERVER :
__NAMESPACE :
__PATH :
LocalName :
RemoteName : \\w701ujpl\IPC$
UserName : EN81ENTx64SCAN\jeroenp
PSComputerName :
But this fails for some Powershell versions:
powershell
gwmi -Query 'Select * from Win32_NetworkConnection' | Select-Object LocalName, RemoteName, UserName, ConnectionState | Sort-Object LocalName | ft -auto
–jeroen
Source: user – Determine Domain and username used to map a network drive – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/24
I’ve posted an update to List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 that:
For the first two: Phry for helping me to force Format-Table to show more than 10 columns and pointing me how find out how to do this with Out-String so it doesn’t truncate fields; blog post about it will follow.
Now – as I can display more than 10 columns- I can start working in integrating all the other info about various BDS versions.
A text dump of the current output is below.
–jeroen
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