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Designing Cmdlets That Have Lots of Parameters
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Fri, Sep 3 2010
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We often get the question of what to do about a cmdlet that has lots of parameters. Do you break it up into multiple commands or just have a single cmdlet with lots of parameters. Here is the way I think about it: If you have to enter 100...
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Intel vPro PowerShell Module
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Tue, Jul 20 2010
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Intel has released version 1.0 of their Intel Core vPro PowerShell Module. This set of cmdlets do Out-of-Band hardware management of devices that are equipped with the vPro chip. What that means is that you can do a certain amount of management...
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PowerShell V2.0 Book Available in Italian
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Sat, Jun 26 2010
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Efran Cobisi has published a PowerShell V2 book in Italian. The title is “Windows PowerShell 2.0 – Guida completa” and is a 448 pages long. Efran describes it as “a collection of theory, insides and hints on the scripting environment, the...
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Improving Parameter Set Design
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Fri, Jun 25 2010
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Designing useable cmdlets is part engineering and part art. It’s not an easy task to define the conceptual boundaries of a cmdlet (where does one cmdlet end and the next begin) or to provide great feature control without inundating the user with...
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Using New-WebServiceProxy to get, modify, and add items to a list in SharePoint 2007
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Thu, Jun 24 2010
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The motivation Let’s say that you want to retrieve and modify a list in a SharePoint site, but you don’t have access to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. One possible solution is to try to search online or ask someone to let you copy the dll. If you are able...
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Windows PowerShell 2.0 on Windows Update
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Tue, Jun 22 2010
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Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3....
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Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs
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Mon, Jun 21 2010
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[This isn't only a PowerShell topic, but I've been asked a few times, so I thought I post the answer here.] If you've visited TechNet or MSDN lately, you'll notice that there are new view options for the pages. TechNet has a new ScriptFree view, in addition...
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PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio
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Mon, Jun 21 2010
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Quest has released a beta of PowerGUI Visual Studio (aka PowerGUI VSX). Check out Kirk Munro’s blog entry HERE for more details. Check out this screenshot: I can’t wait to install it and kick the tires! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished...
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Kudos to NetApp for Data ONTAP PowerShell ToolKit
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Tue, Jun 15 2010
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Kudos to NetApp for releasing the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit last week at TechEd. I was monitoring the twitter feeds last week and saw a flurry of activity talking about NetApp’s broad adoption of PowerShell and release of the Data ONTAP PowerShell...
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Export and Import PowerShell ISE Opened Files
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Fri, Jun 4 2010
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Unlike other tools, PowerShell ISE doesn’t have project files. Project files are a good way to set your environment up with a well known state. Thanks to the ISE Object Model, it is possible to add some project functionality. The script below has...
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Save All PowerShell ISE files
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Fri, Jun 4 2010
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PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files. On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials...
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Renaming Tabs in the ISE
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Tue, May 25 2010
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When you have multiple PowerShell tabs open in the ISE, it may be handy to rename them, so you can tell which is which. This is especially useful when using Remoting with Enter-PSSession. The problem when using Enter-PSSession is that you have no access...
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PowerShell V2 IS Available
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Fri, May 14 2010
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Superstar Tobias Weltner (of PowerShell.com and Powershell Plus fame) sent me some mail today pointing to this May 14th article Three Essential PowerShell 2.0 Remote Management Features . It is a very good article except for this part: “PowerShell...
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PowerShell Resource Page at Windows IT Pro
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Wed, May 12 2010
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Windows IT Pro magazine has created a PowerShell Resource Page HERE . It provides a nice easy way to get at all of Don Jones’ articles. Don is a superstar explainer of all things PowerShell so if you aren’t already following him, do yourself...
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Smiling, Crying, and Scripting
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Thu, May 6 2010
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I once heard that everyone in the world smiles and cries the same way - that language and culture had no effect on these. I thought of that when I navigated to: http://www.computerworld.jp/topics/mws/180709.html I have ABSOLUTELY no clue what they are...
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Select-String -Context
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Thu, May 6 2010
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A lot of people use Select-String but I haven’t seen much discussion of the –Context parameter. This is an awesome feature that we added in V2. If you haven’t tried it, you should spend a few minutes experimenting. I can guarantee...
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Configuring WSMAN Limits
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Sun, May 2 2010
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As you probably know by now, all of PowerShell remoting is done via streaming extensions to WSMAN. WSMAN is the SOAP-based DMTF standard protocol for managing everything. As you explore the limits of what you can do with WSMAN or PowerShell remoting,...
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A PowerShell Wander: ToolBox Mindset, –ExpandProperty, DMZs and Remote Profiles
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Sat, May 1 2010
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I was reading PowerShell remoting in Windows Server 2008 R2 . The great thing about this article is that it documents how to use Group Policy to enable PSRemoting on lots of machines automatically. In the article there was the following heads up: Warning...
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MMS Partner Presentation: Windows Management Framework
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Fri, Apr 23 2010
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MMS Partner Day focuses on ISVs that produce products for Windows and System Center. I talked to them about the Windows Management Framework (WMF) and encouraged them all to check it out and begin using it to build their products. WMF is a download which...
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Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search
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Mon, Apr 19 2010
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Beginning today, there's a new way to look at Windows PowerShell cmdlets. You're used to looking at them this way: Or, perhaps, this way: But would you like to look at them this way? What if getting a list of the remoting cmdlets was as easy as clicking...
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PowerShell V2 Open Panel Discussion Tonight
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Thu, Apr 8 2010
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Tonight’s version of the PowerScripting Podcast is going to be an Open Panel discussing PowerShell V2 including the following topics: PowerShell 2.0 adoption Are you happy with version 2? Favorite v2 resources: books, bloggers, tools, etc. PS v2 Remoting...
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Announcing Scripting games 2010
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Mon, Apr 5 2010
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Scripting Guys have set the ball rolling for another fun filled and intresting edition of Scripting Games. You can see details here http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/04/05/2010-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx Grab this badge...
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Testing cmdlets with FxCop
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Tue, Mar 30 2010
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Windows PowerShell wouldn’t be very useful without all the great cmdlets that actually manage specific technologies. We want to help cmdlet developers to create high-quality cmdlets. Today we announce availability of FxCop rules that can be...
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“Falling is Learning – Just Focus on Having Fun”
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Tue, Mar 9 2010
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Back in the days when our hair was on fire with security issues, we brought in a number of industry experts to educate us on developing secure software. This resulted in the Security Development Lifecycle which all our products now use. One...
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Fun – Is W7 Too Good?
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Sun, Mar 7 2010
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Sean Kearney (aka Ye110beard of Highway to PowersHell fame ) sent me a pointer to a fun video which posits that maybe W7 is TOO good. Just maybe it is so good that it will put IT Pros out of business. I think the exact opposite is true - I...
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