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Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:22 PM

PowerShell's Script Center problem

Fellow Scripters, We’ve heard that some of you think our PowerShell sample scripts on the TechNet Script Center stink. Do you have any idea how much that hurts? We slave over hot keyboards day in and day out trying to help you ungrateful scoundrels learn
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:15 AM

Programmatic way to get valid string values for a parameter

<WIZARD WARNING> ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter to
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:51 AM

PowerShell Grammar

A number of people have asked about the PowerShell grammar. Here is a draft write up (I've also included it as an attachement) that George Xie and Bruce Payette are working on. Grammar of PowerShell (formerly known as Monad) is separated into parsing
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 8 Comments
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:36 AM

Filing Bugs

How to file bugs for Windows PowerShell
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Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:35 PM

Invoking PowerShell with complex expressions using Scriptblocks

<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder: when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN PROCESS PS>
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:42 PM

PowerShell Training is now available!

I was delighted to discover that DesktopEngineer.Com is now offering Windows PowerShell training: http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 . This is the first (and therefore BEST :-) ) commercial training available for PowerShell (formally known as Monad). I
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 14 Comments
Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:44 AM

RC1 Update Available

After releasing RC1, internal testing discovered two issues that we feel warrant an update to our RC1: One issue affects the digital signature verification on some file types (such as .msi, and .vbs.) For the affected file types, signed files will appear
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:58 PM

Development opportunities in Windows PowerShell Team

Windows PowerShell, previously codenamed Monad, is Microsoft’s next generation shell. It forms a large part of the Windows Server Division’s future, and we are hiring! We have two openings in our development team for strong individual contributors to
Posted by arulk | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:28 PM

PowerShell announcement/demo available on the Web

You can now view Bob Muglia's MMS keynote address on the Web at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/material.mspx . Starting around minut 29:00, he makes the PowerShell announcement and brings superstar Vivek Sharma on stage to demo
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:04 AM

em dash, en dash, dash, dash, dash...

Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:29 AM

Chewy WMI example

MOW has done it again with an excellent example of a PowerShell script which does some chewy WMI processing and takes advantage of the PowerShell capabilities. http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/05/powershell-export-shares-and-security.html Quite a few of
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