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Friday, August 31, 2007 9:41 PM

Export-Demo

A while ago I wrote a script START-DEMO which I use to give demos (You can get the latest/greatest copy HERE . ) This script is also a great teaching tool. You can create your own demo.txt file with commands and explanations and then people can run it
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 3 Comments
Friday, August 31, 2007 6:06 PM

Monitoring with PowerShell and Appropriate Technology

Otto Helweg has a cool blog entry about how he uses PowerShell to monitor Web Sites HERE . This isn't a professional product but there are a couple of websites that he cares about and this quick and easy script tells him what he needs to know. It monitors
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 3 Comments
Friday, August 31, 2007 4:44 AM

Show-WmiClass

Here is a script that I use to show WMI classes. I think you'll find it useful. There is an example after the script: ############################################################################ # Show-WmiClass - Show WMI classes # Author: Microsoft #
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Attachment(s): Show-wmiclass.ps1
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:50 PM

Out-*/Format-*

Don Jones has graciously offered to share a slide he uses as part of his Windows PowerShell Fundamentals course ( http://www.scriptingtraining.com/ ) which shows the interaction between the pipeline, the out-* and format-* cmdlets. The attached slide
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 12 Comments

Attachment(s): Formatting process.pptx
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:30 PM

Making Applications Scriptable via PowerShell

OpenXtra has a blog entry PowerShell + Network Monitor = Powerfull Netman Tool which observes that if took a network manager tool and coupled it with PowerShell, you would have an awesome combination. A long time ago I was the architect for NetView so
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 5 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:40 AM

Emitting Objects verses Outputting Text to the Screen

Let's face it, PowerShell does a bunch of magic for you. If we've done our job right, this magic is exactly what you want 99 out of a 100 times. That said, if you are a power user, then at some point you'll encounter that 100 th case and you'll need to
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:00 PM

Another PowerShell UserGroup

Richard Siddaway founded the first PowerShell UserGroup in the UK Get-PSUGUK. Now a second UserGroup has been formed. This one covers Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Their web site is available at: www.powershell-ag.de www.powershell-ag.ch www.powershell-ag.at
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:16 AM

Shared Source PowerShell Projects

Someone has compiled a list of the 25 Most Active Projects in CodePlex . PowerShell has 2 entries in that list. Congratulations to: PowerShell Community Extensions - provides a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:55 PM

Preview of PowerShell Plus

The fine folks at Shell Tools just released a preview of their upcoming PowerShell Plus interactive shell – a 4 minute trailer to hint at things to come. http://www.powershell.com/plus In PowerShell V1, working within a decades-old console host is what
Posted by PowerShellTeam | 5 Comments
Friday, August 03, 2007 7:07 PM

Tower Of Power

PowerShell has a lot of books to choose from and more are coming. See attached. :-) Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter
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Attachment(s): Tower-Of-Power.jpg
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:55 PM

Get-WmiChildNameSpace

I got sick of fiddling around with WMI namespace so I produced a really simple script to cope with this. I call it Get-WmiNamespace: PS> cat .\Get-WMIChildNameSpace.ps1 param ($Namespace="root\cimv2", $Computer=".", $Column=4) Get-WmiObject -Computer:$Computer
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