PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalScope 2009 prepare for beta launch
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PrimalScope 2009 now also includes a debugger and syntax coloring for PowerShell, making it an even better auxiliary debugger for your remote machines, if things don’t turn out the way you expect them to work.
PrimalScript 2009 contains quite a variety of new features, enhancements and changes. We can’t really go into too much detail here in the newsletter, but we do have a screenshot and a brief overview for you. We will publish quite a number of articles on the new items on our blog at http://blog.sapien.com. These blog posts will also detail information about pricing, upgrading etc., so please make sure to keep an eye on the blog. And of course you are always welcome to post in our support forum at http://support.sapien.com if you have any concerns or questions.
- A new COM - WMI - PowerShell and .NET object browser provides a central location to discover and explore the objects you need.
- SQL PrimalSense makes editing SQL files and stored procedures easier and less error prone.
- A new integrated file difference tool provides more information and syntax colored displays allow for faster review of individual modifications.
- The new integrated shell window allows ad-hoc commands to evaluate individual commands.
- Object browser connection to the MSDN library and Google make it simple and easy to access documentation and sample code from the internet.
- Automatic brace matching allows you to visually verify correct parenthesis placement.
- The Live SQL query window enables ad-hoc query testing and live data manipulation.
- A new WMI query window integrates easy testing and discovery of WQL statements and WMI class properties.
- The new enhanced start page distinguishes between edited and simply opened files, so your current work gets not pushed "off the list" as easily.
- Enable / Disable code commands on the context menu make it simple and quick to comment and fold or re-activate diagnostic code in your scripts.
- Improved type library caching improves speed when opening ASP, HTML or HTA pages.
- The new Quantum Script Host allows you to run your scripts (VBScript, JScript, PowerShell) with elevation on Windows Vista and above.
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This month's PowerShell one-liner uses WMI to query event logs on remote
computers. Specifically it is searching for logs that record when the
Event Log service has started. This is another way you can, determine
when a computer has started. It's not foolproof of course but the
one-liner should serve as an example of querying WMI on multiple machines.
Get-WmiObject win32_ntlogevent -filter "logfile='system' AND
EventCode=6005 AND TimeWritten >
'$((get-date).AddDays(-30).toShortDateString())'" -computername
(get-content computers.txt) |Select
@{name="Computername";Expression={$_.__Server}},@{name="StartUp";Expression={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.timewritten)}}
This expression queries a list of computers and finds the specific event
records written in the last 30 days.
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