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Windows PowerShell technology blog

Free English version of Windows PowerShell Course book

Frank Koch has translated his Windows PowerShell course book into English and made it available for...

Author: arulk Date: 05/10/2007

How Can I Delete All the Duplicates in a Set of Processes But Keep the Oldest Process?

This blog corresponds to the scripting guy column with the same title. I am posting the script for...

Author: arulk Date: 05/08/2007

How Can I Determine the Day of the Week?

Hey, PowerShell! I have a script that does certain management tasks based on the day of the week. I...

Author: arulk Date: 11/30/2006

How Can I Determine the Date for the Friday in a Given Week?

Hey, Powershell! Given a date, can a script tell me the date that the Friday for that week occurs?...

Author: arulk Date: 11/29/2006

How Can I Determine the Beginning and Ending Date of the Previous Month?

Hey, PowerShell! Given a specific date, how can I determine the beginning and ending date of the...

Author: arulk Date: 11/22/2006

Transcript of Solving Management Problems with Windows PowerShell

Along with Jeffrey, I presented Solving Management Problems with Windows PowerShell session at...

Author: arulk Date: 11/19/2006

Windows PowerShell 1.0 Launched

I am here at TechED-IT Forum at Barcelona, Spain. Today, in his keynote address Bob Muglia, Senior...

Author: arulk Date: 11/14/2006

Reading Attributes of Directory Service Objects

The previous blogs described how to create an OU, a user account, and a group, and set the...

Author: arulk Date: 08/24/2006

New community project created for Windows PowerShell Extensions

We have worked with CodePlex team to create a new Community Project for Windows PowerShell. Keith...

Author: arulk Date: 08/07/2006

Technorati Profile

Here is my Technorati profile information for this blog. Technorati Profile

Author: arulk Date: 08/04/2006

Modifying Directory Service Objects with Windows PowerShell

Modifying an object is equivalent to writing an attribute to an existing object in Active Directory....

Author: arulk Date: 07/29/2006

WindowsITPro article on Windows PowerShell

Windows IT Pro Magazine has an article on Windows PowerShell...

Author: arulk Date: 07/27/2006

ADSI Scripting with Windows PowerShell.

We have made significant improvements in ADSI support in the upcoming release of Windows PowerShell...

Author: arulk Date: 07/25/2006

Windows PowerShell blog for French users

Jacques Barathon has created a new Windows PowerShell blog. What is unique about this blog is that...

Author: arulk Date: 05/16/2006

Training course for Windows PowerShell from DesktopEngineer.com

I came across this recently,DesktopEngineer.com has acourse on Windows PowerShell for...

Author: arulk Date: 05/07/2006

New PowerShell Bloggers Jim Truher, Abhishek Agrawal

We have two new PowerShell Bloggers. Jim Truher is program manager in our team. He is one of...

Author: arulk Date: 05/05/2006

Development opportunities in Windows PowerShell Team

Windows PowerShell, previously codenamed Monad, is Microsoft’s next generation shell. It forms a...

Author: arulk Date: 05/04/2006

Welcome to Windows PowerShell (Monad)

In his keynot address at MMS 2006, Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, announced the product name for...

Author: arulk Date: 04/25/2006

Monad on Hanselminutes Show

Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman...

Author: arulk Date: 03/23/2006

COM support in Monad

I was reading Tony’s Blog MSHFORFUN about using Microsoft Text to Speech engine to output using...

Author: arulk Date: 03/17/2006

Monad cheat sheet for cmd.exe users

Many people in windows environment are cmd.exe users. This cheat sheet will help these users to move...

Author: arulk Date: 03/08/2006

Monad Beta3 available.

I wish everyone happy new year. We had a fantastic 2005 in Monad team. We delivered multiple betas...

Author: arulk Date: 01/10/2006

Monad portal in script center

Most scripters are familar with Microsoft script center. Script center now has a portal for...

Author: arulk Date: 12/13/2005

Announicing public availability of Monad Beta

Folks, Monad beta is now publicly available as part of WinFx beta release. You can get this beta at...

Author: arulk Date: 07/29/2005

Difference between $() and ()

Today, I was writing some script to play around hash declaration. My line of script to declare hash...

Author: arulk Date: 07/15/2005

Monad WebCast

Jeffrey Snover, our architect, is going to give a web cast on Monad. Please mark your calendars and...

Author: arulk Date: 06/27/2005

Monad Beta1 Released

After nearly nine months, the Monad team has released Beta 1 of the Microsoft Command Shell....

Author: arulk Date: 06/17/2005

Wait is Over. Monad beta available

Time has finally arrived for people to get their hands on new Microsoft Command Shell Code named...

Author: arulk Date: 06/13/2005

Where to get Monad?

Monad is currently in development. A preview is available for those who are interested. To get Monad...

Author: arulk Date: 05/12/2005

How to determine Monad version?

if you are running Monad and would like to determine the version of Monad you are running then you...

Author: arulk Date: 05/12/2005

Msh Language Quick Start

MSH LANGUAGE QUICK START Arithmetic Operators (also see Unary and String operators) + addition,...

Author: arulk Date: 02/24/2005

What is Monad ?

Monad is the new command line shell developed by Microsoft. Goal of Monad is to deliver an...

Author: arulk Date: 02/21/2005