Best posts made by Rob Dunn

It does work really well, especially for form building. It's a trial thing, so it'll expire after a period of time. Porbably worth it if you're doing a lot of PowerShell work, tho'.

@scottalanmiller Thanks!

I know you had responded in the other thread too..., so double-thanks!

I wanted to plug (pun intended) my stuff so I can get some feedback - and, I'm kinda proud of the thing...

Maybe someone can talk about Linux management, ala Puppet or something else (my Linux-fu is not so good)?

Discuss what's keeping people from using it, and why should you not be afraid of it.

Stupid Internet of "things" what the hell.

Now that we're at the point where my refrigerator gets hacked and ruins my pot pie...what a shitty time to be alive.

Has anyone suggested MangoEd?

"I got Mango'Ed!"

By the way - the latest update adds subcategories to custom forms!

I know someone who would be willing to help out with the Powershell stuff

In all seriousness, we'd have to find out what level of skill to cater toward, and then work from there. In the other thread, SAM talked about the flow of problem discovery to tool creation and implementation, what's the thought process, how to approach the solution, etc. That'd be a good session, I think.

Yeah, Faildesk got compromised late last week and Dreamhost killed it on Saturday. Had to restore from backup and didn't get to the WP update until today. Had various files in my wp-content and main site directories this AM. Annoying.

Here's hoping the new release will stop the shenanigans.

I just want to know when he logs off.

Can we get email notifications...hmmmm...?

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

That makes sense, but I was thinking traction.

Traction is what kills people Front wheel drive using traction to cause the car to spin and all wheel drive losing traction from the wheels pulling against each other...

This is why tire places will often put the new tires on the rear of front wheel drive cars. It helps to prevent the rear from overtaking the front of the car.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Rob-Dunn said:

We use Websense (unfortunately) - is something that is done from the Websense software or would we submit it another way?

If you have a Websense account, you should be able to email in MangoLassi's URL to the email address listed higher up in the thread. It's just an email address, nothing more. It only accepts from customers though, hence the issue. Give it a try, at worst you get a rejection email.

Submitted - got an actual case # (seems tedious), let's see what happens next.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham but reviews are hard unless you know a specific product you are looking for. Its not like there is a list of them that I know of. Like with new topics they are easy to find and answer. That's why I have stayed away from reviewing products.

Ah, but there is:

http://community.spiceworks.com/reviews

I was on my phone; Martin sent me a PM over at SW

I had responded to this question over there in the Powershell forum, but chutestrate's account is in moderation for some reason.

Anyway - I'll try to take a stab at this.

As mentioned, when you run a script or a function, powershell has a built-in mechanism that will interpret anything passed after that script or function (that are not named parameters) and places them into an $arg *object.' It's kind of like a basket that catches the other stuff passed that hasn't been explicitly handled in the script/function. Since someone could feasibly pass more than one argument to the script, Powershell needs to have a way to handle more than one argument...just in case. With that being said, there's always an $arg object, whether you've passed arguments or not. It's just there to handle anything that fall outside named parameters during execution.

Remember, everything is an object in Powershell. It can represent one thing or many things. In this case, $arg is an object that represents many things; i.e an array. $arg is a representation of that array.

So, you might run a script like this:

test.ps1 -ComputerName <COMPUTER_NAME> -ProcessName <PROCESS_NAME> more arguments

or even like this:

test.ps1 -ComputerName <COMPUTER_NAME> -ProcessName  more <PROCESS_NAME> arguments

Since we've specified -ComputerName and -ProcessName, those are named parameters (as denoted by the dash '-' followed by the name of the parameter you are passing.), so anything that is passed outside of those named parameters will be placed into the $arg object. In either of the above examples, $arg[0] would be 'more' and $arg[1] would be 'arguments.' Like Scott and Martin said, $arg is an array, and in the script/function, the [0] and [1] just helps identify which item in the array we want to return.

@Reid-Cooper said:

ConMango via Convention.... with mango by convention, ha ha.

Much wow.

@ajstringham

@ajstringham said:

@Rob-Dunn , you should totally up your posting here once you hit PC over there. We could use someone of your caliber here.

Will do!

I'm trying to start to use the term 'item' or 'element' when referring to the things contained in an array (in general). In Powershell, you can start to refer to these things as 'objects,' but within the terminology of array, I'm going to try to use 'item' or 'element' for the sake of consistency.

...in short, lots of terms get thrown around interchangeably.

Single dimensional arrays are a grouping of single elements - like an egg carton, each spot in the array can hold one thing. This is what $args is.
Multi dimensional arrays are a grouping of groupings of items - like a shipping container. A large box that contains smaller boxes of things.

Watch this video up to 2:05 to get a basic understanding of arrays - - it sounds like you don't grasp this concept at all

Youtube Video – [01:26..]

@IRJ

Sophos SafeGuard works pretty well and is centrally managed.

@Joyfano said:

@thanksaj said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Joy was born two decades too late.

Something like that...LOL

haha but admit it guys
Michael Bolton
Steve Perry
Byan Adams

are great

Youtube Video

Even if you can't get into the 'admin' bits of Powershell what with your network systems, you can still delve into it with the file-level stuff. Script actions against files based on content, output to HTML/CSV, etc. send them to email. Even by doing that, you'll be on the right track when it comes to working with your networked systems!