Bruce Payette, one of the original designers of PowerShell, visited us in Charlotte this week. One slide in his PowerPoint deck showed a stack of PowerShell books as long as my arm. However, the only book I’ve seen so far that covers the features of PowerShell...

No, it isn't the Hydrometerological Prediction Center at NOAA (though they could certainly use it). It is High Performance Computing. You computer probably has 2 processors in it (not including the graphics processor) -- wouldn't you like to have thousands...

http://blogs.msdn.com/dsadsi/ is our team blog, and I have a post on it today, http://blogs.msdn.com/dsadsi/archive/2009/10/02/can-we-know-who-has-changed-an-attribute-in-active-directory.aspx . I'd like to thank Max Vaughn, Glenn Zuckermann, Bill Wesse...

The development team for iSCSI has released some more information about WMI and iSCSI devices . Getting this information should be very easy under Windows 2008.

I have been using the PowerGUI Script Editor, version 1.5.2.550, from our partners at Quest Software (download it here ). It gives me nice syntax highlighting, and a big button to run the script, just like in Visual Studio. Quest offers a number of...

The philosopher Leibniz placed the windowless monad at the core of his philosophy -- we are such things, preprogrammed in such a way that everything will work out properly, and we will not run into puzzles arising from the interaction of mind and matter...

I've been helping out my old colleagues on the identity team these past few weeks (so that people could take a well-deserved summer vacation, and I haven't had a bit of spare time. I have newfound respect for the work of Anaïs Nin . Good news -- our...

I needed a program that could do layers and web graphics. I found this: http://www.getpaint.net/ -- Paint.net, a Microsoft mentored senior design project. It is open source. It is very fast. And I think I'm going to like it more than Photoshop. Of course...

I have determined my topic for my first training triage: "Writing a WMI Instance Provider". Since everyone in the training will be on a corporate network, I have a wide variety of tools available to make the presentation an interesting one. Notably...

Suppose you have an application running on a customer's machine. They inform you that the application has been unable to create something, or unable to read something. You suspect some kind of issue with the permissions the program has to read or write...

From the earliest days of Windows NT, even before Active Directory was on the scene, every process has an associated security token. To see the information contained in the token, if you are using the windbg debugger, you can use the !token meta-command...

WMI, or Windows Management Instrumentation, is the standard method used by Windows to monitor and control services on network computers. Perhaps the first place to go to learn about WMI is the Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation...

Noticed that people are already seeing this blog ... that is certainly interesting. Different people learn in different ways. Some people learn by experimenting with a technology. Some learn by formulating different search queries to their favorite...

My name is Drew Arrowood, and I am the newest engineer on the ADSI/WMI/Cluster Services/Powershell team. I'm located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Microsoft's largest East Coast location, which happens to be off Arrowood road. This isn't my first team...