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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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Automating Dell Battery Replacement Discovery

MOW has done it again. Checkout his blog entry which shows how to leverage Windows PowerShell to automate determining which of the Dell laptops in your enterprise need to have their batteries replaced. http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/08/powershell-has-my-dell-dangerous.html
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Encoding Operations Knowledge

One of the primary goals of Windows PowerShell is to encode operations knowledge. Consider the example of finding out what domain role a computer plays. If you look at the WMI class WIN32_COMPUTERSYSTEM, you'll see that it tells you this information:

Revisiting: Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs

In the blog entry Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/29/650913.aspx . I showed how you could use the registry to get all the progids that you can use for COM automation. Here is a way to do the same
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Improved Support for WMI

<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and categories> We have recently completed work on improved support for WMI including: Improved Adapters for WMI objects and classes Most notably the ability to easily invoke methods on both Direct language support for
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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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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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Use of Wildcards in PowerShell Formating

MMS in San Diego was a great conference! I met lots of customers that asked lots of great questions. I was demonstrating PowerShell's WMI support when a customer asked about controlling the output. The problem was that PowerShell was showing all the WMI

Finding out what determines which properties are displayed

MoW, a Monad newsgroup regular, asked why only the Caption, Name and PeakUsage properties were displayed from the command “get-WMIObject Win32_PageFileUsage” while the output object had a lot more properties. I think it is worth it to explain in details
 
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