This isn’t what I want to be writing about. But a recent discovery compels me to do so. So, I’ve decided to make this an experiment, and beg your apologies that this will not have much technical merit despite the title.

After the last post, Set the Priority of a Process By Name Automatically, in Vista (which probably could have been named a lot better), I discovered that the post had made its way to some other sites. These sites appear to pull content from all over the web, package it up as their own, and toss ads all over it. One is lucky if the site even references the original author or links back to the original location of the post. It’s frustrating, to say the least. I’m all for distribution of knowledge and the like, but that’s taking it too far. Maybe I shouldn’t feel this way, but I (like others) put brain sweat and time into the work I do, and it would be nice if the source of the information would at least be cited if they’re going to republish it without the author’s consent.

So I visited two of these sites (which I have

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Check out this new Powershell Cmdlet from Darren Mar-Elia:

We have had the capability with other tools/script - but using PS is new, great stuff!

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The other day I was playing around with the Image File Execution Options and Sysinternals’ Process Monitor, in Vista. I saw an interesting query take place. Using notepad.exe as an example, I saw a query for a key called “PerfOptions” in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\notepad.exe] when I ran notepad. The result was NAME NOT FOUND, so I decided to rectify that. After adding a key named “PerfOptions”, I ran notepad again. In Process Monitor, I saw queries for four values:

• IoPriority
• PagePriority
• CpuPriorityClass
• WorkingSetLimitInKB

Because of recent explorations with process priorities*, CpuPriorityClass grabbed me right away. Looking at the SetPriorityClass function, one can see the different values for the dwPriorityClass parameter. I created a REG_DWORD named CpuPriorityClass in PerfOptions, and set the value to 0×80 in the hopes that notepad would launch with “HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS”. Instead, it launched with a priority of NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS (8) - the setting had not made any impact. Then, I set the value to 8 and launched notepad. Notepad launched with a priority of 8. I changed the value to 4, and that had no impact. I changed the value to 0 - no impact. I tried 10 - no impact. I couldn’t see any

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This is my first screencast (ever!), and I am hoping to do more on PowerShell, and anything related to PowerShell. In this first screencast, I’m going to do a demo of JAMS: JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. As of a few months ago, it now provides full PowerShell support

The idea of doing a screencast came to me a few months back, Jeffrey Snover blogged about JAMS on the Windows PowerShell team blog.  He mentioned that he would like to see some kind of video demo of how JAMS worked.  Since nothing was available, I decided to do a screencast on it, and here it is in Flash format: JAMS screencast. 

If there’s anything in particular related to PowerShell that you’d like to see a screencast on, leave a comment here or post something in the scripting forum, and I’ll add it to my list of things I’d like to cover in the future.

I hope you enjoy it!

I think Windows PowerShell is one of the greatest things to have been released recently (yes, I am a poshoholic).

At TechEd 2007 last June in Orlando, a lot of people were talking about PowerShell.  Ben Pearce put together a list of the top 5 questions he was asked while doing demos.  I will leave it up to you to check out the questions, which have pretty detailed answers. I am going to start blogging on TLA about Windows PowerShell, and how it can make *your* world a lazier better place.  I am hoping that, along the way, I can help you understand and appreciate the POWER of PowerShell, and help you automate your environment or even just help with your regular daily stuff.  At any time, please post in the scripting forum, if you have any questions or comments on PowerShell.  You can even post your own scripts in other languages, and ask “how do I do this in PowerShell?”.  I will help you find the answers…

I want you to be as excited as I am about this new technology.

Exchange 2007 was basically *built on* PowerShell, and as of Windows Server 2008 beta 3, it can

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The following example opens a URL every 5 minutes, tests the content, and measures the time it took to download the HTML for the page. Notice that all the HTML is dumped into a big fat string. The string is then searched for specific text that is known to be in the requested page. Note that this script runs forever and can be stopped with a Ctrl-C.

Example PowerShell script:

$webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$webClient.Headers.Add(”user-agent”, “PowerShell Script”)

while (1 -eq 1) {
$output = “”

$startTime = get-date
$output = $webClient.DownloadString(”http://www.sysinternals.com/“)
$endTime = get-date

if ($output -like “*Mark Russinovich*”) {
“Success`t`t” + $startTime.DateTime + “`t`t” + ($endTime - $startTime).TotalSeconds + ” seconds”
} else {
“Fail`t`t” + $startTime.DateTime + “`t`t” + ($endTime - $startTime).TotalSeconds + ” seconds”
}

sleep(300)
}

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