Last weekend I installed the super-awesome W7 Ultimate on all the machines at home. This weekend I decided to install the XP Virtual mode download . I started to do this and noticed that it was 500MB. That is large and is going to take a long time FOR...

On October 15th I released a large collection of scripts called the PowerShellPack .  The PowerShellPack has tons of PowerShell V2 scripts that can be used to do all sorts of fun and practical things.  Today, we’ll show how to use a module in...

Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, was officially released to the world this morning. By providing a consistent management interface across the various flavors of Windows, we are making our platform...

Tonight is the night!  I was super happy when we shipped V1 of PowerShell.  It started the journey.  That said, V2 is the release that we really wanted to release.  Today Windows 7 is publicly available and every version has PowerShell...

I’ll be joining Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz (hosts of the PowerScripting Podcast ) in a PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party this Thursday, Oct 22nd, 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-4).  For more details and info on how to join us go HERE . Hmmm, I wonder if...

http://www.codeplex.com/CmdletDesigner During the development of Windows 7, most cmdlet design and help authoring in Microsoft went through an internal tool called the “Cmdlet Designer.” The Cmdlet Designer makes it much easier for teams to concentrate...

Since I work on the PowerShell team, I’ve been lucky enough to get a couple of years jump start on producing PowerShell V2 scripts and modules. With every new script I write in V2 I get more and more amazed by the possibilities in PowerShell. I’ve discovered...