Attached is a zip file containing all the demo files I've used at IT Forum. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter...

I'm doing this as seperate posts because I'm having trouble doing it as a single ZIP file. Attached is a PDF of my presentation. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn...

Attached is my presentation. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter...

Finally the information is public!!! You can't image how difficult it has been to know this information but not be able to tell anyone. It's so cool you just want to stop people on the street and tell them. Check out this eweek article: Microsoft Releases...

I just saw a cool article by Don Brown who has written a set of SMS Cmdlets for Windows PowerShell . These work with SMS 2003 and are well worth a look-see if you are an SMS customer. (Btw – I wrote Get-XXX to mean GET-(any nounname) but now that I look...

If you are interested in my presentation: TECHED: What's New for Developers in PowerShell V2 , you might be interested in this BLOG ENTRY by Sebastien Lambla over on http://serialseb.blogspot.com/ . He took very good notes during my session and posted...

Attached is the Deck I just presented at TechEd. I've provided it in PPT and PDF formats Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell...

Below is the content of the Update-GAC.ps1 script that I run whenever I install a new version of PowerShell. Our installation is supposed to ngen the assemblies in the background. If that works, it doesn't work fast enough for me. Also I've seen lots...

I'm really enjoying the book Windows PowerShell Cookbook by Lee Holmes. It has lots of neat scripts. I decided to grab one and re-write it to highlight some of the features in the PowerShell V2 CTP. Below is the content for Get-AliasSuggestion.PS1...

Check out Dmitry Sotnikov's blog Out-vCard: Exporting Outlook Address Book . It lets you do things like: Get-QADGroupMember DL.ProjectA | Out-vCard To create a Vcard file for every member of a distribution list. This made my day (and I was already...

The PowerShell ecosystem is once again proving itself to be super smart and agile. Superstar's Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks are once again demonstrating why they are MVPs for PowerShell. On Nov 12 th , they (and Sapien Press) will release an electronic...

As you start to play with the CTP bits of Windows PowerShell 2.0 , it would be wise to tell what's new in this CTP release. First thing to know is that this release is compatible with and replaces Windows PowerShell 1.0. You must un-install PowerShell...

The Windows PowerShell Team is pleased to release the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell 2.0! This release provides a “sneak peak” into the future, including key features that empower Windows administrators to: Run commands...

Next week we'll be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell V2.0. This release will not be for everyone. This morning I wrote 3 blog entries that set your expectation about the CTP. I decided to blog them BEFORE the CTP...

Next week we'll be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell V2.0. I'm going to hold off saying what is in it until next week. The purpose of this email is to set your expectations about the CTP. Versioning The PowerShell...

Next week we'll be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell V2.0. I'm going to hold off saying what is in it until next week. The purpose of this email is to set your expectations about the CTP. Platform Requirements The...

Next week we'll be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows PowerShell V2.0. I'm going to hold off saying what is in it until next week. The purpose of this email is to set your expectations about the CTP. CTP -NE BETA ! The first...

Lee Holmes' book "PowerShell CookBook" is now available. If you've been following PowerShell for any time now, I'm sure that you have Lee's Website as a favorite just as I do. Lee has a wonderful way to explain things and provide exactly the example you...

WINRM is the CLI interface to our WS-MGMT protocol. The neat thing about this is that you can call it from PowerShell to manage remote systems that don't have PowerShell installed on them (including Server Core systems and Raw hardware). I was trying...

We've seen a couple requests for this on our internal mailing lists so I thought other people would be interested. There are times when you want to do something like: $d = [DateTime] [$d]"12/25/2007" Or (using a STRING instead of a TYPE): $d...

Apologizes for going "radio-silent" on the blog here. We have all been very busy getting some very exciting things ready. I'm going to leave out the details until next week but clever people will notice that we are coming up on our 1 year anniversary...

Microsoft’s Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have intermediate to advanced skills with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of PowerShell version...