My germs!

I have introduced ac’tivAid on this blog and am about to publish my first scripts/extensions.

The only thing missing is a quick guide on how to install an extension. Would be helpful, uh?

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A while back – January, if I am not mistaken – a colleague of mine saw some of my AHK scripts. Upon seeing this, he showed me a little portable app he uses to get the same results.

That’s how I learned about ac’tivAid. It is a framework for AHK scripts created by Wolfgang Reszel
for the german PC magazine c’t. The official article is on their website; where you can download the app (here is the direct link for non german speaks: link).

This framework comes by default with quite a lot of extensions (scripts). And some pretty neat ones for that matter. I have running right now: Read more

Good news: The Microsoft Scripting Games for 2013 have been announced

There have been some changes: The community has taken over the organization; The Judging and Scoring is different; among other things. You can read all about it at powershell.org Scripting Games Announcements.

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Quite some time ago (2008, if I am not mistaken) derRaphael, a well-known scripter on the german AHK forum, wrote a script inspired by the Firefox addon Ubiquity. He named it dR’s OCM (OmniContextMenu).

Unfortuantly his original code is no longer available on the internet.
But in October I remembered this code of his and found a backup somewhere in my storage.
I took a look at it and decided to use it again. Since this meant some updates in the APIs and his code, I made a version 2.0.
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Recently I had an idea:
I was using Ed Wilson’s Code Snippets (which he introduced in his article Add Code Snippets to Your Script by Using the PowerShell ISE) a lot for powershell when writing scripts in PowerShell ISE. However I missed this when writing other things (i.e.: AHK scripts, ABAP reports, e-mails, a.s.o.).

I remembered Lexikos’ AHKControl back from 2008 and thought I could combine both ideas.

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Wow. It’s been a year????

I can’t believe it took me this long to post something again.
I didn’t really have anything to share lately; I’ve been busy with work and did little scripting in the last year.

But I am aiming for a change.
The Scripting Games will start this month. You can get more infos about theme at powershell.org.

I will be posting more on the games shortly.
Stay tuned

The 2012 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games are just around the corner. I have participated in the last 2 Scripting Games and had a lot of fun.

I have been invited to be a judge for the second time, along with a lot of MVPs and PowerShell veterans. It will be a lot of work (a lot of scripts to grade) but I am sure it will be worth it. Read more

Here is a little function i wrote a while back.
I have been using it a lot lately to send myself (and coworkers) status updates and logs. I also use it to let me know when a job (that kind of job that takes forever to complete) is finished.

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Today Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy) published my secound guest entry on the Hey Scripting Guy blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/20/use-powershell-to-work-with-any-ini-file.aspx

Hope you enjoy

It has been a while since I last posted here.

I wanted to finish my module project for my next post, but I didn’t have that much time to work on it. This module allows you to manage Active Directories and Domain Controllers.

Microsoft introduced a built-in PowerShell module for managing Active Directory in Windows 2008R2. However, I have two problems with this module:

1. It is only available on the server and I want to be able to run stuff (most of all Get-* commands) from my local computer
2. It doesn’t work with Windows 2008 and 2003 ADs and DCs

So I decided to write my own set of functions, which soon turned into a complete module. Since it is supposed to be a tool to work mainly with older servers, it’s time to finally publish it (Although it is not 100% yet). Read more