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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...

MSH LANGUAGE QUICK START Arithmetic Operators (also see Unary and String operators) + addition, concatenation - subtraction * multiplication, string repetition / division % modulus Array Comparison Return all elements equal to 3: 1,2,3,5,3,2 –eq 3 Return...

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...

After nearly nine months, the Monad team has released Beta 1 of the Microsoft Command Shell. Although initially promised for release at the end of the month, the Monad team has worked hard to release Beta1 to BetaPlace ahead of schedule! To download the...

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...

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...

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...

Monad is currently in development. A preview is available for those who are interested. To get Monad Preview 1. go to http://beta.microsoft.com 2. login using guestid mshPDC 3. You will get information to download the monad bits.

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...

Monad is the new command line shell developed by Microsoft. Goal of Monad is to deliver an extensible scripting environment that is secure,interactive, programmable and production-ready to enable consistent and reliable automation of administrative tasks...

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...

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.

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...

if you are running Monad and would like to determine the version of Monad you are running then you can determing the version by doing the following MSH>$host.version Major Minor Build Revision ----- ----- ----- -------- 1 0 224 0 This...

Jeffrey Snover, our architect, is going to give a web cast on Monad. Please mark your calendars and attend these events. You will get tons of information on Monad TechNet Webcast: Next Generation Command Line Scripting using Monad (Part 1 of 2)...

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...

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

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...

Time has finally arrived for people to get their hands on new Microsoft Command Shell Code named Monad. We will be releasing a beta version of Monad at our betaplace and it will be available for download on June 21st. Please see my blog Where to get...

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...

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 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.

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...

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...

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...