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June 2006 - PowerShell Team

Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs

June 29, 2006 Jun 29, 2006 06/29/06
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<edited 7/2/2006 to add categories and PSMDTAGs> Windows PowerShell allows you to program against COM automation.  The typical way to do this is : $x = new-ojbect -ComObject <PROGID> The question then is, how do I know what progids I can use.  Here are there 3 answers I'm lucky enough to be in category 3 so I'll ...

Finding the static methods of a class

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
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<Edited 7/2/2006 to add categories and tags> In the previous entry, it showed how you could use the static method GetHostAddresses of the [System.Net.Dns] class to resolve a hostname.  This begs the question, how do you find the static methods of a class.  There are 2 answers to this: 1) SDK documentation.  (remember the ...
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Windows PowerShell One Liner: Name to IP Address

June 26, 2006 Jun 26, 2006 06/26/06
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<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and category>Wei Wu provided a nice one liner in response to a query in our NewsGroup: Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell about how to resolve a hostname into an IP Address: PS> [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("www.msn.com") IPAddressToString : 207.68.173.76Address      &...
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Improved Support for WMI

June 25, 2006 Jun 25, 2006 06/25/06
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<Edited 7/2/2006 to add tags and categories>We have recently completed work on improved support for WMI including: Everyone that uses WMI owes a debt of gratitude to Greg Ramsey.  Greg did an MMS session and lab focused on Scripting SMS using VBscript and Windows PowerShell.  Jim Truher and I joined Greg to host a Birds...

BaseName for FileInfo objects

June 24, 2006 Jun 24, 2006 06/24/06
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<Edited to add categories>In our active, responsive, and useful newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell (SELL SELL SELL :-) ),  MVP Alex Angelopoulos recented posted the following: Although file extension changing is a common technique in administrative tasks, the System.IO.FileInfo class does not provide a direct ...

Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell

June 24, 2006 Jun 24, 2006 06/24/06
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MOW is now posting the details of his Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell demo that he performed at my TechEd talk.  This is worthwhile for everyone to review.  For the people at the talk, we covered a huge amount of data in a very short time so it would be worth while to walk through the details.  For ...

Cleaning up obsolete Windows PowerShell Aliases

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06
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Over the course of time, I've written a number of functions & cmdlets and then created aliases for those.  Many of those where Ad Hoc and I've since thrown them away but I still have the aliases sticking around.  Here is a quick and easy way to determine the validity of your aliases gal |%{if (!(gcm $_.Definition -ea ...

Leveraging Windows PowerShell Type Extensions to get documentation

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06
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After just a little use of Windows PowerShell, you quickly learn that you need to pipe objects in the GET-MEMBER utility to understand the capabilities of that object.  Get-Member reflects against the object and shows you all of its methods and properties (more as well but that will be a different blog).  Get-Member is getting that ...

Windows PowerShell documentation

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06
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I have recently noticed that a number of people have missed the fact that we have a Windows PowerShell Documenation Download (for RC1) at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2B0BBFCD-0797-4083-A817-5E6A054A85C9&displaylang=en Everyone should download this document and give it a read.  I think you'll be pleasantly...