Managing Windows Deployment Services (WDS) using PowerShell – Part 1

September 2, 2010

I just can’t believe that I have not written anything here for a month. There were several things that happened last month and I did not really have any energy left to write some content here. There were several interesting things I learned and experimented. Now that I am done with quite a few things, [...]

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WMI Query Language (WQL) – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE

August 3, 2010

Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL.
1. WMI query language – An introduction
2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators
3. WMI query language – Data Queries: SELECT, FROM, and WHERE (This post)                  

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WMI Query Language (WQL) – Keywords and Operators

August 2, 2010

Here are the links to all articles in this series of posts on WQL.
1. WMI query language – An introduction
2. WMI query language – Keywords and Operators (this post)

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WMI Query Language (WQL) – An introduction

July 22, 2010

I have been using WMI a lot these days and got to play with WQL as well. In this series of posts, I want to write about how WMI Query Language (WQL) can be used to retrieve management data exposed by WMI. Yes, this has nothing to do with PowerShell but as a PowerShell lover [...]

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Search and download scripts from TechNet Script Center repository

July 7, 2010
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If you have ever used PoshCode, you can search & download scripts from PoshCode using PowerShell. They even have a module for that. PowerGUI provides features to search PoshCode and download/upload scripts to PoshCode from PowerGUI Script Editor. A similar script or an option does not exist for TechNet Script Center. So, this is my [...]

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Quick PowerShell Tip: Check if a given path is absolute or relative

July 1, 2010
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You may, sometimes, want to check if a user provided file/folder path is relative or absolute and run the appropriate action based on the result. The System.IO.Path name space provides a simple method to verify that. That method is IsPathRooted(). This method will return True if the path is absolute and False if it is [...]

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