August, 2008

Due to a problem retrieving the available methods in V1 that we have worked around for the upcoming version of PowerShell, you might experience that the first method call to a WMI object fails with a message that mentions: Exception calling GetType...

One of the highlights of my IT Forum talks last year came when I had Tobias Weltner demo PowerShellPlus V1.0. It rocked the house. The power and thoughtfullness of the tool was very clear. Since then, Tobias has teamed up with the folks over at Idera...

Smart guy Don Jones has a good blog entry where he discusses ABSTRACTIONs with the question, " Do I need .NET, WMI, COM, and all that to use PowerShell?" I agree that the correct abstraction for users (admins, etc) is Cmdlets (and Providers [Don...

I've seen a number of scripts that look like this: GET-XXXX | Where {$_.name -eq "foo"} or GET-XXXX | Where {$_.name -like "A*"} Whenever you see code like this, it is a sign that the GET-XXXX is not designed correctly. (NOTE: GET-XXXX...

Dan Jones has a great blog HERE explaining why the SQL team decided to support PowerShell when they already had T-SQL.  It originally started as an email thread responding to the question posed by an MVP.  This was a great question to ask. ...

One of the coolest new features of Windows PowerShell is PowerShell modules.  I've just written a tutorial about how to use them on my personal blog . You can check out the full post for more details, but here are some easy things to remember about...

At TechEd, I did an interview with Kevin Remde where I discussed the V2 Universal Code Execution model in detail. You can see it at : Universal Code Execution Model (UCEM)—a vision of how PowerShell scripts can run anywhere, anytime in just the right...

If you're going to be in Sweden on Sept 16th, you have the opportunity to hear Richard Siddaway give 2 PowerShell talks covering: PowerShell Overview Learning Powershell Using WMI Break Administering Active Directory Administering...