November, 2006

Today at the keynote at ITForum in Barcelona, we announced the official release of Windows PowerShell 1.0! For those of you unfamiliar with Windows PowerShell, it is a best of breed next-generation commandline shell designed from the ground up to be...

We've had many questions about when Windows PowerShell will be released for Windows Vista. We plan to release Windows PowerShell 1.0 by January 31st, 2007. Cheers! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell/MMC Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell...

What to learn about Windows PowerShell without installing it? Download our Windows PowerShell 1.0 Documentation Pack Overview The documents included are: The "Getting Started Guide", a 32-page introduction to using the shell and the Powerscript...

A log It turns out that having it available on a particular day means different things to different people. After all, a day has 24 hours in it. Add the fact that we announced in Barcelona which is 9 hours off Redmond time and you've got 33 hours of...

Windows PowerShell Scripting Contest on TechNet ScriptCenter (Nov 1 – Dec 15 2006) Want a chance to win one of over 150 prizes, including one of two, all-expenses paid trips to Redmond , WA to meet the Windows PowerShell team? Or maybe one of...

I thought you might enjoy my blog entry on the Windows Vista blog. Those guys have a much cooler background than we have. :-) http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/14/it-forum-day-one-windows-vista-and-windows-powershell.aspx...

"Brandon Shell" asked: > I have seen adding psbase to alot of things "fixes" problems... What is this > psbase (thingy) and why do I have to use it? > There are lots of different object & data technologies in the world, each with their own...

Let me take a minute to tell you about 2 of my favorite things in Windows PowerShell: -ErrorAction and –ErrorVariable You may have heard me talk about being maniacal about doing a great job with error handling ... this is one the cornerstones of our...

PowerShell and SMO are getting together like chocolate and peanut butter. Yesterday I blogged about Bob Beauchemin's TechEd talk about the today and today I see Dan Sullivan's PowerSMO blog entry: http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dan/archive/2006/11/07/41936...

I had the great honor of demoing PowerShell and IIS7 during BobMu's keynote address at IT Forum in Barcelona. It is awesome what these two technologies can deliver when used together. You can find out more about this at the following link: http://www...

I recently did an interview with Sam Ramji of Port25. I must say that I really enjoyed this talk. Sam is a a really smart guy and we had a blast exploring a wide range of topics. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/11/14/powershell-released-an-interview...

If you are writing scripts that accept input from users - you need to be aware of the potential dangers of Malicious Code-Injection. Below is a good good article on this topic: http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Website-Development/Malicious-Code...

In our newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell, Steve Foster asked whether PowerShell could help him with a bunch of emails in .EML format. Here was his query: Got a bunch of emails (.EML) that have been copied around various places with the...

In my blog post Processing .EML files using Select-String and SetCreationTIme ( ) ( http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/23/processing-eml-files-with-select-string-and-setcreationtime.aspx ), I showed you could do some incredibly powerful...

Don Jones is going to give a TechNet Webcast about PowerShell. Don is a very good speaker and has great ways of explaining things so it should be well worth your time. BTW, Don is the author of the upcoming book Windows PowerShell: TFM (as in the TFM...

During my IT Forum Chalk and Talk on PowerShell Utilities, I created a transcript and promised to post it. The talk was really free form with me responding to the various questions from the audience so that transcript does not follow any particular storyline...

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'm finally here at day one of TechEd Developers in Barcelona. The trip from Seattle is long and hard. So long and hard that my bags couldn't make it. They decided to hang out in Coppenhagen for a while. That explains why I'm walking around looking like...

ScriptCenter has a couple chapters of Bruce Payette's awesome book: Windows PowerShell in Action. You can (and should) read chapter 10 at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/payette1.mspx Here what ScriptCenter says about it...

DesktopEngineer.com is offering a 3-day PowerShell training course. Check out the details at: http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell/MMC Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com...

Hot on the heels of the last announcement, AddOn is providing a PowerShell Training class in Germany AD435 -- Systemadministration mit Microsoft PowerShell Enjoy Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell/MMC Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell...

ScriptCenter has a couple chapters of Bruce Payette's awesome book: Windows PowerShell in Action. You can (and should) read part 2 of chapter 10 at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/payette2.mspx Part 2 focuses on file...

ScriptCenter has a couple chapters of Bruce Payette's awesome book: Windows PowerShell in Action. You can (and should) read part 3 of chapter 10 at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/payette3.mspx Part 3 focuses on XML...

Richard Siddaway and Thomas Lee are trying to get a PowerShell Users Group started in the UK. If you are interested, let them know at: http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2006/11/uk-powershell-user-group-anyone.html Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell...

Rodney Buike recently interviewed Bruce Payette (our Language Dev Lead) at: http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2006/11/20/podcast-powershell-with-bruce-payette.aspx Bruce and Jim Turher did a super job designing the language (they exceeded...