Automating the world one-liner at a time…
April 29, 2006Apr 29, 200604/29/06<WIZARD WARNING>
Dreeschkind posted a question in the Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting newsgroup about how PowerShell formatting worked with Select. He saw some behavior that he thought was a bug. Here is what he saw:
PoSh C:\>gps | sort starttime | select name,starttimeSort-Object : Exception getting “StartTime”: “Zugriff verweigert”At line:1 char:11+ gps | sort
April 29, 2006Apr 29, 200604/29/06MMS 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 System properties as well as the Object properties and that this wasn’t what they wanted.
April 28, 2006Apr 28, 200604/28/06Check out the interview that Scott Ottaway and I did with Scott Fulton of Tom’s Hardware: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/25/powershell_windows_command_line_to_ship_q4/
Tom’s has consistently been a source of good information about this project – going beyond the cut-n-copy herd to ask interesting questions and forming their own opinion.
April 28, 2006Apr 28, 200604/28/06Superstar Bruce Payette is writing a book focused on the whats and whys of the language called PowerShell in Action. Bruce is the dev lead on the language and is a walking encyclopedia of computer languages. I have the honor of being a technical reviewer of the book and it has me jumping out of my chair with excitement (seriously,
April 28, 2006Apr 28, 200604/28/06PowerShell is a great interactive shell and a great scripting language. That said, the feedback from the scripting community has been very clear: they want/need a PowerShell Scripting IDE.
As such, I was very happy to finally have something to say about this at my MMS talks this week.
April 26, 2006Apr 26, 200604/26/06One of the nicest new features in the latest drop of Windows PowerShell is enhanced tab-completion. We now tab-complete properties on variables and parameters on cmdlets in addition to the old filename completion. But that’s not the interesting part. The cool bit is that it’s done through a user-definable function.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06One of our primary goals for Monad was to: “Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way”.
The challenges of systems administration are large and growing at the same time organizations are under ever more pressure to reduce costs and do more with less.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06In Monad, mshsnapins can be installed in a different directory from the Monad executables. At runtime, the Monad engine will load the mshsnapin assembly and its referenced assemblies based on application base information provided during mshsnapin installation.
If an mshsnapin itself dynamically loads an assembly through an assembly name or a relative path,
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06So how come we have three ways to filter a path in most of the core cmdlets such as in the get-item cmdlet. It is important to understand that exclude, include, and filter offer different levels of filtering.
So let’s give a few examples of how get-item cmdlet works with these parameters individually and then in conjunction.
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06Some applications launch themselves whenever you start your computer and load Windows. In most cases, this is the desired behavior. However in some instances, malicious programs such as spyware, Trojans, worms, viruses load in this manner and hijack your computer. It is important to stay vigilant and periodically monitor your startup registry keys and delete keys that are unwarranted.
