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Free English version of Windows PowerShell Course book
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over 5 years ago
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Frank Koch has translated his Windows PowerShell course book into English and made it available for free. You can get the free book here Arul Kumaravel Windows PowerShell Development Manager Microsoft Corporation.
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How Can I Delete All the Duplicates in a Set of Processes But Keep the Oldest Process?
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over 5 years ago
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This blog corresponds to the scripting guy column with the same title. I am posting the script for doing the same with PowerShell 1: $processes = get-wmiobject -query "Select * from win32_process where name = 'notepad.exe'" 2: 3: if ($processes.count...
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How Can I Determine the Day of the Week?
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over 6 years ago
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Hey, PowerShell! I have a script that does certain management tasks based on the day of the week. I know how get the date in a script, but how can I tell whether it’s a Monday or a Tuesday or whatever? This is very easy to do with Syste.Datetime class...
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How Can I Determine the Date for the Friday in a Given Week?
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over 6 years ago
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Hey, Powershell! Given a date, can a script tell me the date that the Friday for that week occurs? Here’s a script that – given a date – will report back the date that the Friday of that week falls on: param ([system.datetime]$date = $([system.datetime...
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How Can I Determine the Beginning and Ending Date of the Previous Month?
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over 6 years ago
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Hey, PowerShell! Given a specific date, how can I determine the beginning and ending date of the previous month? In other words, given 8/11/2005, I need to get back 7/1/2005 and 7/31/2005. Powershell provides access to .Net framework. We can use .Net...
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Transcript of Solving Management Problems with Windows PowerShell
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over 6 years ago
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Along with Jeffrey, I presented Solving Management Problems with Windows PowerShell session at TechEd Barcelona. Many people asked for the script examples I used during the presentation. Attached zip file contains transcript as well as input files used...
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Windows PowerShell 1.0 Launched
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over 6 years ago
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I am here at TechED-IT Forum at Barcelona, Spain. Today, in his keynote address Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corporation, officially launched Windows PowerShell 1.0. Jeffrey Snover showed an awesome demo of using PowerShell to manage IIS...
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Reading Attributes of Directory Service Objects
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over 6 years ago
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The previous blogs described how to create an OU, a user account, and a group, and set the description attribute on each of these objects. The next common task is to read an attribute of each object. Reading an Active Directory object’s attributes involves...
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New community project created for Windows PowerShell Extensions
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over 6 years ago
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We have worked with CodePlex team to create a new Community Project for Windows PowerShell. Keith Hill, MVP for Windows PowerShell, will be the project coordinator. Microsoft employees won't be able to participate in the community projects directly due...
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Technorati Profile
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over 6 years ago
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Here is my Technorati profile information for this blog. Technorati Profile
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Modifying Directory Service Objects with Windows PowerShell
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over 6 years ago
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Modifying an object is equivalent to writing an attribute to an existing object in Active Directory. If an attribute contains a value, modifying it will clear the existing value and replace it with a different value. Typically, the type of modification...
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WindowsITPro article on Windows PowerShell
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over 6 years ago
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Windows IT Pro Magazine has an article on Windows PowerShell http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/50565/50565.html Check it out. Arul Kumaravel Development Manager Windows PowerShell Microsoft Corporation
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ADSI Scripting with Windows PowerShell.
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over 6 years ago
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We have made significant improvements in ADSI support in the upcoming release of Windows PowerShell RC2. In this and future blogs, I will talk about how to use Windows PowerShell for ADSI Scripting. Windows Scripting Guide 2000 provided scripting examples...
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Windows PowerShell blog for French users
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over 6 years ago
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Jacques Barathon has created a new Windows PowerShell blog . What is unique about this blog is that it is entirely in French. If you are on the French speaking administrator who is reluctant to try out Windows PowerShell due to lack of documentation then...
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Training course for Windows PowerShell from DesktopEngineer.com
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over 6 years ago
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I came across this recently,DesktopEngineer.com has acourse on Windows PowerShell for Administrators. You can visit their website at http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 for more details.
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New PowerShell Bloggers Jim Truher, Abhishek Agrawal
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over 6 years ago
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We have two new PowerShell Bloggers. Jim Truher is program manager in our team. He is one of co-designer of PowerShell scripting language. You can read his blog at http://spaces.msn.com/jtruher Abhishek Agrawal is test lead in our team. He...
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Development opportunities in Windows PowerShell Team
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over 6 years ago
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Windows PowerShell, previously codenamed Monad, is Microsoft’s next generation shell. It forms a large part of the Windows Server Division’s future, and we are hiring! We have two openings in our development team for strong individual contributors to...
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Welcome to Windows PowerShell (Monad)
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over 6 years ago
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In his keynot address at MMS 2006, Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, announced the product name for Monad. Monad will be called Windows PowerShell . We are also announcing the public availability of our RC1 drop in the download center. You can get...
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Monad on Hanselminutes Show
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over 6 years ago
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Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. In this week’s radio show, Hanselman talk about Monad. Click here to listen to the show. He has also written a blog on Monad...
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COM support in Monad
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over 6 years ago
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I was reading Tony’s Blog MSHFORFUN about using Microsoft Text to Speech engine to output using voice. He created an Interop assembly for Microsoft TTS com object and used the resulting .Net assembly to do voice output. Monad provides great support for...
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Monad cheat sheet for cmd.exe users
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over 6 years ago
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Many people in windows environment are cmd.exe users. This cheat sheet will help these users to move to Monad shell easily by showing cmd.exe equivalents in Monad. I will keep this blog uptodate as I discover commands for which users are struggling...
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Monad Beta3 available.
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over 6 years ago
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I wish everyone happy new year. We had a fantastic 2005 in Monad team. We delivered multiple betas to our customers and we finished the year with our feature complete milestone. Monad beta3 which contains our feature complete bits is ready. You...
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Monad portal in script center
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over 7 years ago
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Most scripters are familar with Microsoft script center. Script center now has a portal for Microsoft Command Shell. You can access the portal at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx -Arul
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Announicing public availability of Monad Beta
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over 7 years ago
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Folks, Monad beta is now publicly available as part of WinFx beta release. You can get this beta at the following location http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=23a22468-5807-4ff7-a363-ce6fe69b8f04&DisplayLang=en
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Difference between $() and ()
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over 7 years ago
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Today, I was writing some script to play around hash declaration. My line of script to declare hash was MSH>$a = @{(‘foo’ + ‘bar’) = 5)} MSH>$a.foobar 5 MSH> Then, I tried MSH>$a = @{$(‘foo’ + ‘bar’)=5} MSH>$a...
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