Read the previous post on implict remoting to learn how the Import-PSSession cmdlet makes it easier to work with remote commands by presenting them as if they were local commands. This user experience saves you the trouble of typing long Invoke-Command...

How can you manage multiple technologies installed on separate machines that expose their management surface through cmdlets?  One approach would be to open remote desktop connection to each of those machines, another approach would be to send commands...

When invoking remote commands, one often wants to use local values as arguments to the remote command. This post explains how to do that. Hardcoded values Let's start with a simple example. Below you can see how Get-Process is invoked in a remote session...

Alexey Martseniuk posted a blog entry in the PowerShell NewsGroup announcing a new version (V1.2) of the PowerShell Help Reader.  My first reaction is WOW! Start your wow experience by going to http://PowershellTools.Com and checking out the Silverlight...

Merry Christmas.  To celebrate the holiday, here’s a quick Christmas tree written in WPK (the WPF PowerShell Kit).  You can get WPK as part of the PowerShellPack ( http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack ). Here’s a screenshot: and Here...

Just before the release of Windows 7, the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack was released.  Today, it hit 10,000 downloads. It contains 10 useful modules that help you do more with Windows PowerShell.  It has modules that can help every...

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available for download . This SDK contains sample code and reference assemblies that allow you to build applications based on Windows PowerShell. The samples demonstrate how to use the Windows...

Let me start of by suggesting you take a few minutes and read Laerte Junior’s excellent blog entry Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt1 Orphaned Users . Laerte does a great job describing the scenario, the approach he took to solving it and then he included...