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February 2007 - Posts

Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:16 PM

Pause

In the Newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell, BJ Stigall asked what the equivalent of the batch file PAUSE function was in PowerShell. There were lots of good answers that came close but I think the one below comes the closest (and a little bit
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:54 PM

Supporting -Whatif, -Confirm, -Verbose – In SCRIPTS!

<This is a super-important issue so you should definitely start using this in your scripts that you share with others (that have side effects on the system). Please try it out and blog about it to others so that it becomes a community norm. Thanks-jps>
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:45 PM

NetBeans IDE support for PowerShell

Apparently one of the main themes of NetBeans 6.0 is going to be support for scripting languages (yet another indication of the industry wide ascendency of Scripting. It is a VERY good time to embrace scripting or "learn PowerShell and increase your integrated
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 4 Comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:26 PM

Displaying USB Devices using WMI

Over on MyItForum.com , I came upon a VBScript in a forum to find all the PNP entities associated with a USBController. I rewrote it in PowerShell and was pretty happy with the results so I thought I would share them. The first thing you need to understand
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:37 AM

Extended Types and Types.XSD

I'd like to draw your attention to a really important blog entry that Jim Truher recently made: PowerShell Extended Types (Includes a TYPES.XSD) . In that entry, he talks about how powerful PowerShell's extended type system is. He is absolutely correct
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 2 Comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:32 AM

Time till we land …

<Today we have a guest blog entry from Ed Wilson – Author of the upcoming MSPRESS book, Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step> <2/16 fixed a bug pointed out by Richard Siddaway [use TotalMinutes instead of Minutes for the out-gauge]. Thanks
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Friday, February 23, 2007 1:26 PM

Why isn’t “New-Object” aliased to “New”

Alistair Young made a Note to Self : In a standard PowerShell installation, "new" is not an alias for "new-object". You added that. You should therefore know better that to make this kind of dumbass mistake. We talked about making "New" an alias to "New-Object"
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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:03 AM

Admin Development Model in Action

Ken Taylor has a PowerShell blog over on LiveSpaces. Today he posted a blog entry, Enabling RDP with PowerShell , that had me jumping for joy as a perfect example of the Admin Development Model in action. The whole point of the admin development model
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 5 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 5:47 AM

Leveraging PowerShell Semantics to do More with Less

Brad Wilson – the .NET Guy recently posted a set of scripts showing how to drive TortoiseSVN from PowerShell. I thought I would use one of these to highlight how you can leverage the PowerShell semantics to do more with less code. PowerShell is provides
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Monday, February 19, 2007 8:05 PM

“Windows PowerShell in Action” has been released…

Since a lot of people have been asking about it, yes - my book "Windows PowerShell in Action" is finally in stock and available on-line from http://amazon.com , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ as well as directly from the publisher http://manning.com/powershell
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:35 PM

Execution Policy and Vista

Some of you may be getting an error when trying to set the execution policy on a new install of Windows PowerShell in Vista: PS C:\Users\leonard> Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted Set-ExecutionPolicy : Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell'
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:09 AM

It’s All about Economics

There is a cool blog over on Windows Live Spaces called PowerShell for Testers . This has a bunch of great technical meat around script testing and testing using scripts. The most recent entry is on Lowering the Cost of Test Automation which makes the
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 1 Comments
Friday, February 09, 2007 4:28 AM

Port 25 interview with Bruce Payette

Port 25 recently interviewed Bruce Payette. Bruce is one of the founding members of the team, is the development lead responsible for the PowerShell language, and is the author if the soon to be released PowerShell in Action from Manning Press. I think
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:14 AM

PowerShell Tip: How to “shift” arrays…

It's fairly common in scripts to extract the first element out of an array then "shift" the remaining elements. Perl has a special shift operator for doing this as do many of the UNIX shells. PowerShell, however, doesn't have a shift operator built-in.
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 10 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 1:48 PM

Processing text, files and XML

Manning Press was generous enough to put another chapter of Bruce Payette's Book PowerShell in Action book online. Presumably you'll read it and become convinced that you must buy the book in its entirety. Whatever the motivation – we all get a great
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Friday, February 02, 2007 1:37 PM

Payette Podcast

Superstar Scott Hanselman interviewing superstar Bruce Payette – does it get any better? Bruce is a dev lead on PowerShell and author of Windows PowerShell in Action . Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows PowerShell/MMC Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell
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