January, 2009

Check out Don Jones’ TechNet article Windows Powershell Best Inventory Tool Ever!   He as a streaming video demo at that location as well.  Cool stuff.  I really enjoy the way Don explains things.  It is well worth a view and worth...

Last Thursday, we had our first meeting of PowerShell Script Club on the Microsoft Campus. Script Clubs are really cool. They're kind of like a hands on lab with no set topic or teacher. You bring an idea for a script, and ask your fellow PowerShell users...

Want a couple hundred new cmdlets?  Download the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 and check out all the cmdlets that we've been dying to talk about but have not been able to.  Also, take a look at what is missing and complain early, often...

Sylvain Galineau just sent me a pointer to a cool site which has reference information for multiple shells:  CMD, PS, BASH, ORACLE, and SQLSERVER.  It's not complete but it is a nice reference point.  Enjoy it HERE .   Thanks Sylvain...

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that the Beta release of Windows server 2008 R2 supports managing Remote Desktop services using PowerShell. You can now configure and manage all RDS role services and components using PowerShell. For example...

This VIDEO explains the real reason why PowerShell is case-insensitive.  (just joking - the video is deadly funny!). Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs...

PowerShell remoting is built on top of Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management protocol. You can use winrm.cmd command line tool to query and manage winrm settings. PowerShell V2 CTP3 contains a wsman provider...

Joel (Jaykul) Bennett has a cool post HERE where he is experimenting with some GUI scripting toolkits and a utility Out-WPF.  You can also checkout a Screencast of Out-WPF working HERE .  It is very cool and very short so give it a look-see...

You can have a lot of fun with PowerShell.  Makes sense right - we're busting our butts off and we get to define it so why wouldn't we make it fun? Your busting your butts off at your job as well so why shouldn't your tools be fun?  Right? In...

Scott Herold has published the first of a three part series called Getting Started With PowerShell and PowerGUI in your Virtual Infrastructure .  I believe that MOST admins should spend time getting  PowerGUI in focus and especially those admins...

A number of PowerShell MVPs and PowerShell team members are helping me to compile a table of contents for our blog, which basically means that I’m getting to go back and revisit all of the fun stuff posted to the PowerShell blog over the past few years...

I decided to experiment with a screencast. This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks. I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better...

There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin. This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet...

I recently wrote a blog Powershell_Ise Can Do a Lot More Than You Think where I described the ability to program it to do new stuff.  Karl Prosser has picked up the baton and written some cool scripts programming the PowerShell_ISE to make it do...

James Brundage posted a blog entry How To Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type which used a here-string.   One user (lcr) copied and pasted the text and got the following error: Unrecognized token in source text. At line:1...

Windows PowerShell CTP3 has a lot of very cool things.  CTP2 introduced the Add-Type cmdlet, which allowed you to dynamically compile C# in PowerShell.  It was actually possible to use the CompilerParameters to Add-Type to make a console application...

When I write a PowerShell function, I try to ensure that it follows the PowerShell standard verbs. These verbs actually exist as static properties in a few different types in PowerShell, so I thought I'd make a quick advanced function so I can get all...

On our internal discussion list, someone just asked about how to pass switch parameters from one function to another.  This person asked this as "Why can't [switch] parameters be passed as parameters?". My short answer was simple: "They...

[1/3/09 Update - the original link to the attachment containing this code was broken but is now fixed. Sorry. jps] It is hard to overstate how important Modules and Advanced Functions are. If you are a PowerShell user - you need to take the time to...

I was just reading a blog post where they were showing al the SCVVM commands in a list.  I was going to refer them to my blog which shows how the display that list of commands in a really nice format.  I have no idea where that blog post is...