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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...