We get this question fairly frequently when it comes to slow network connections. The performance of directory listings (especially on a laggy network) are limited by the .NET APIs we call to retrieve the directory information. There are two limitations...

Introduction While I was fixing bugs, I came across an interesting bug ( https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=382818 ) that seemed to have a very simple fix upon first glance. However, after doing some more research...

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...

During the development of any product, the vision for the upcoming release is driven by the desire to help as many customers in the most effective way possible. One of the interesting aspects of a release is balancing the effort you spend on different...

We like to say that PowerShell uses Verb-Noun naming.  If we were accurate, we would say that PowerShell uses Verb- Prefix Noun naming.  For instance: Get-WinEvent .  WIN is a prefix for Windows.  Every now and again people look at...

Per Østergaard has a great blog entry with all the steps for enabling this HERE .  You’ll want to bookmark this one.  :-)   Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:   ...

Most of us are familiar with the traditional use of Select –ExpandProperty <propertyname>.  This takes a the value of an incoming object, enumerates its values and outputs each of those values as a single record on the output stream after adding...

One of the things I want us to consider doing in the future is to leverage our Universal Code Execution infrastructure to execute any kind of code. For example, imagine that I have some script foo.vbs, I’d like to do the following: PS>  Invoke...

PowerShell MVP Jaykul gave a presentation to the NY PowerShell user group and was kind enough to post the text of his slides HERE .  One of the problems I have in talking about V2 is that there is SO much good stuff that I often get the levelling...

Someone just tweeted a link to Scott Hanselman’s 2007 blog (an oldie but goodie) about how he used PowerShell to analyze the WebLog data from his podcasts.  He provides a beautiful example of I like to call the “Admin Development model”.  The...

Good things come to those who wait. Please download these bits and let us know if you have any problems with them. https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads Just to be clear, this download contains the latest version of both PowerShell...

We have made changes to PowerShell connect site last month with the goal of making it easier for users to submit and share feedback. We also changed the page layout to make it more user friendly. Take a look at our new site https://connect.microsoft...

After WMF (Windows Management Framework ), i.e., the combined download package of Powershell, WsMan and BITS, for Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to the Web on Aug. 13th , we can feel the high expectation for the final WMF releases from our...

PowerGUI has a cool way to get you started with PowerShell 2.0 features.. 'Code Snippets' . Take a at this video to know more. http://poshoholic.com/2009/08/28/learn-powershell-v2-features-using-powershell-code-snippets/ Thanks Osama Sajid, Program...

Tonight is the second meeting of Script Club in Seattle at Avanade. If you're in the area tonight between 7:15 and 8:30, feel free to stop by to get help learning or using PowerShell. Tonight's meeting is at: Avanade, 818 Stewart St, Seattle, WA at...

I was messing around with my son’s computer today trying to figure out why one of his programs wouldn’t work.  I was going to use ProcMon to monitor the processes but wasn’t sure what the processes where.  So first I had to figure out what processes...

I recently did a pretty wide ranging interview for TechNet with Osama Sajid.  They broke it up into 3 sections.  You can find the first section (along with pointers to the others) HERE .  In part 3 I talk about the idea of Integrated Lifetime...

PowerShellCommunity.org has announced that they have a got a new sponsor, Pragma Systems . SSH and Telnet folks know Pragma very well. For Powershell users they provide the capability to access Windows PowerShell from any client that runs a ssh or telnet...

On one of our internal discussion aliases, someone asked why do we need a plus (+) the class name for FTP? Typically, you would expect this to work [Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp], but it doesn’t. The solution is [Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp] and it has...