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PowerGadgets News & Reviews
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"While I wouldn't go so far as to say that PowerGadgets is the greatest thing in
the history of history, it is easily my favorite tool for Windows PowerShell..."
- Carter Shanklin, VMware Product Manager
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PowerGadgets is featured in Wrox Press' latest PowerShell book, 'Professional Windows
PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007'. Author Joezer Cookey-Gam uses PowerGadgets
to visually monitor Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 data.
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"I urge you, if you haven't checked it out already, to give PowerGadgets a try.
You just might make your job of monitoring servers and applications much easier."
- Joe Brinkman, Microsoft MVP
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"This is one power pack that belongs to every PowerShell user's toolbox."
- Lee Desmond, Microsoft Certified Trainer
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"I am proud to announce a new PowerShell user group. This user group will have its
meetings done via Live Meeting with the help of Microsoft. The intent for the first
few meetings is to invite international 'PowerShell superstars' to give some brief
talks on what they are doing with PowerShell." - Marco Shaw, PowerGadgets
MVP
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"Combined with a visualization toolkit such as PowerGadgets... PowerShell can be
a real boon to administrators of application server farms." - Dino
Chiesa, Microsoft Director of Application Platform Marketing
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"The licensing costs for Power Gadgets are very reasonable. Even a small business
should be able to justify the cost, given the value. There's no need to spend a
ton of money on a high-end solution." - Jeffery Hicks
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"So what could you really use these tools for? Hundreds of options come to mind.
Since the tools can query Web services, you could monitor your HR department's data,
getting automatic notification on your desktop when a new employee is hired." - Greg Steen
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"I still feel like what I saw was a kind of magic. I just installed two products
from different teams and they simply worked with one another providing great UI
experience on top of PowerShell." - Dimitry Sotnikov, Quest Software
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"This tool for creating real-time charts, gauges, and graphs for Windows Vista and
XP is nothing short of amazing. You can choose any kind of data you like, and a
wizard walks you through every step of the way. Using some simple tricks, you can
also incorporate these dashboard components into Web pages and other applications."
- Sean McCown
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Cool PowerShell Scripts
Reading a Remote CSV
Posted by ivang
Create a script called ImportCsvWeb.ps1 with the following:
$url = $args[0]
$tempFile = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName()
$webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$webClient.DownloadFile($url,$tempFile)
$data = import-csv $tempFile
[System.IO.File]::Delete($tempFile)
$data
Invoke it in a powershell session (or script) as follows:
.\importcsvweb.ps1 "http://<your csv file URL>"
| out-chart -values <ValueColumns> -label <LabelColumn>
Note that in this case we let importcsvweb return the data without any "casting"
to allow reuse of this script with multiple CSV files. You tell the out-chart cmdlet
which fields should be plotted through the
-values
parameter (which must contain only numbers).
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