I haven't read their 2.0 book. The 1.0 book was pretty good. Manning publishing, who does Bruce Payette's "PowerShell in Action", had an ebook special on it for something ridiculous like $10 in November/December. That's the one I acquired.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace I just bought Windows Powershell 2.0 TFM, by Jones and Hicks. I'm putting it underneath my pillow tonight. Heh. Kurt On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:56, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > PowerShell v2, yes. It has a fairly robust remoting implementation. > > In v1, I still wrapped lots of scripts around psexec. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:53 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace > > psexec is a bit simple, but it does do an awful lot. > > Time to start gearing up for powershell, though. I think it can do all that > psexec does, and more. I'm going to find out... > > Kurt > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:48, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm waiting for somebody with more programing experience than myself to make >> a good frontend to SysInternals PSexec.exe (and their other tools.) Pushing >> scripts/silent .MSI installs is completely doable with that software without >> a client on the machine. >> >> >> --Matt Ross >> Ephrata School District >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Kurt Buff >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 >> 09:11:10 -0800 >> Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace >> >> >>> I'm not a big fan of software client installs. I do wish these >>> companies would figure out how to do more of this stuff without >>> loading extra software onto all of my machines. >>> >>> It's memory bloat and more software on the desktop means more >>> security risks as well. >>> >>> Blech. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:11, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I've been looking into getting a KBox as well. I currently use >>> > Microsoft Configuration Manager - a behemoth of a product - and am >>> > looking at alternatives. The KBox has a Dell Updates section >>> > which might be of use, >>> as >>> > we are a Dell shop as well. >>> > >>> > The Microsoft product is okay, but very cumbersome and don't get >>> > me >>> started >>> > on getting the blasted client installed...... (KBox client >>> > installs very easily). >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Tom Miller >>> > Engineer, Information Technology >>> > Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board >>> > 757-788-0528 >>> > >>> >>>> tony patton <[email protected]> 2/18/2010 6:05 AM >>> >>>> >>> >>> > Discovered that bit of info couple of weeks ago, but couldn't post it. >>> > >>> > We're waiting on the Finance director to sign off on the purchase >>> > of a KBOX 1100 for the past month. >>> > >>> > The Dell acquisition sort of throws a spanner in the works, as my >>> > boss is adamant that we'll get a better price from Dell on it. >>> > >>> > Hopefully we'll be the owner of one very shortly. >>> > >>> > They've changed their licensing structure last month, the >>> > different modules used to be licensed separately, now they are all >>> > included. >>> > It's worked out the same for us as we were looking for the >>> > Security Scanning and Asset modules. >>> > If you were just getting the basic box, it'll now work out a bit >>> > more expensive, but still a lot cheaper than most of the alternatives. >>> > >>> > The best thing about the purchase, is that they're now using Dell >>> > servers, pretty important factor for us as we're 100% dell, apart from >>> > the Netapps. >>> > >>> > Regards >>> > >>> > Tony Patton >>> > Desktop Operations Cavan >>> > Ext 8078 >>> > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 >>> > email: [email protected] >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > From: >>> > Kurt Buff <[email protected]> >>> > To: >>> > "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> >>> > Date: >>> > 17/02/2010 22:20 >>> > Subject: >>> > Dell Just Bought Kace >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Discussion warranted, I presume. >>> > >>> > Can you customise software installs? 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