The Surly Admin

Father, husband, IT Pro, cancer survivor

Discovery with Powershell – Script to Get Screenshots for VMs

In the IT world, Administrators love to debate which technology is better.  Mac vs. PC, Android vs iOS, you name it we’ve argued over it.  One that I’ve been seeing a lot of over the last few years is vbScript vs Powershell.  As you probably know, I stayed in the vbScript world for quite a while because it was a safe, known haven that suited me.  But then I came to Powershell, and learned how you can discover what’s going on in Powershell so easily.  This started with using a great Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) like PowerGUI or PowerShellPlus, but then I discovered a few other commands that helped me discover information about the objects I was working with.  Specifically Get-Member.  Read on to see how I recently used Get-Member to solve a problem.

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January 31, 2013 Posted by | PowerShell | , , , | 2 Comments