HP Publish Server Scripting Tools For PowerShell

One thing I love to see is third party companies publishing PowerShell tools for their software and hardware products. The more companies do it, the more strategic, de facto, PowerShell becomes. I love it when a plan comes together as a great American Colonel once said.

HP has just published a set of PowerShell cmdlets that provide tools for IT pros to configure an HP Server. You can see the announcement here, and the full spec of what was released here. And for the brave, download the cmdlets here.

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Windows-based Format Utility for HP USB Stick

Some years ago, HP created a neat utility to format USB sticks – including formatting them using NTFS (something that XP/Server 2003 does not do). I first wrote  about this utility in May 2005, and again in late 2006. Originally released by HP for their USB  memory sticks, the utility appears to have been removed from the HP site. The name of the utility is: HPUSBFW.EXE, and a quick Google search yields several places you can download it from. I got the utility some years back from the HP site and it’s still working fine (just formatted a 2gb memory stick this morning to NTFS). No idea what the legalities of obtaining this HP utility form other non-HP sites, so tread carefully.

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