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Friday, March 09, 2007 1:53 AM

Installing PowerShell on Vista/"Longhorn" Server

1. I am new to PowerShell and would like to install it on my Vista machine. The following page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx gives you links to various PowerShell downloads. Choose the one
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:24 AM

Why Can’t I Pipe Format-Table to Export-Csv (and get something useful)?

Ken's PowerShell blog has an entry Remote Services and PowerShell where he wrote a function to get services from a remote machine using WMI. He formatted the data using FT (format-table) and then went on to export the data to CSV. He pointed out that
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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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Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:43 AM

PowerShell Cheat Sheet Redux - the PDF version

Attached is a PDF version of Ben Pearce's PowerShell Cheat Sheet. In the past I've encouraged everyone to speak up and complain if we were messing up or not giving you what you needed. I'm pleased to see that you have taken this to heart (seriously).
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Attachment(s): Cheat Sheet V1.00.pdf
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:15 PM

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

Ben Pearce was gracious enough to put together a good looking PowerShell Cheat Sheet which I've included as an attachment to this blog post. By definition, a cheat sheet is incomplete so this contains the things that Ben has found to be the most import.
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Attachment(s): Cheat Sheet V1.00.docx
Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:10 PM

Windows PowerShell Exit Codes

Windows PowerShell Exit Codes PSMDTAG:FAQ: How can my script control the PowerShell exit code? Answers: 1. A normal termination will set the exitcode to 0 2. An uncaught THROW will set the exitcode to 1 3. The EXIT statement will stop the process and
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Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:21 AM

The Wonders of Date Math using Windows PowerShell

Larry Hayden posted a query about dates at: http://techtasks.com/bookmarks/powershell/2006/09/interview-with-a-scripter-jeffrey-snover/ He has a script which gets all the Application Events that happened TODAY: ———————————————————— $today = [DateTime]::Today
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Friday, September 15, 2006 5:04 AM

ErrorLevel equivalent

PSMDTAG:FAQ: ErrorLevel - what is the PowerShell equivalent? In Cmd.exe, %ErrorLevel% is a builtin variable which indicates the success or failure of the last executable run. In PowerShell, we support: $? Contains True if last operation succeeded and
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:21 PM

DateTime Utility Functions

I often want to find things that happened Today. For instance, which files got changed today. Windows PowerShell makes this easy to do but it can be a bit verbose and I do it a lot so I've added a function to my profile: IsToday. function isToday ([datetime]$date)
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Saturday, September 02, 2006 6:53 PM

BizTalk Server Applications: Get/Start/Stop

Tomas Restrepo has a nice script for getting/starting/stoping BizTalk Server Applications at: ht tp://www.winterdom.com/weblog/2006/09/02/BTSResetWithPowerShell.aspx I like how readable it the script is. It is completely obvious what is going on. Compare
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:17 AM

Writing and Reading info from Serial Ports

PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I read/write data from a Serial Port? Writing to a Serial Port PS> [System.IO.Ports.SerialPort]::getportnames() COM3 PS> $port= new-Object System.IO.Ports.SerialPort COM3,9600,None,8,one PS> $port.open() PS> $port.WriteLine("Hello
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:43 AM

Background "jobs" and PowerShell

A lot of people have asked whegther Windows PowerShell can do UNIX job handling. The paraphrase an old management salesperson joke, "YES - YOU can do UNIX job handling with Windows PowerShell" (which means you have to do it yourself). Jim Truher shows
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Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:06 AM

More Windows PowerShell Training Available

Don Jones, of ScriptingAnswers.com, is holding two two-day classes on Windows administrative scripting in Chicago and Seattle this September. While the first day of each class will focus on advanced VBScript techniques, the second day will be entirely
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:08 AM

Joel-On-Software on the power of a good language

Joel Spolsky of Joel-On-Software fame, just posted a blog, "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html In this article, he drives home the point that when it comes to code: Maintainability, Readability,
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:26 PM

ScriptCenter EventLog Article

ScriptCenter has a very good article exploring the use of Windows PowerShell to analyze your eventlogs. Check it out at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/get-eventlog.mspx PSMDTAG:CMDLET: Get-EventLog PSMDTAG:FAQ: EventLog
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