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August 2006 - PowerShell Team

Tip of the Day

August 31, 2006 Aug 31, 2006 08/31/06
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Exchange 2007 has implemented a Get-Tip cmdlet which emits a tip of the day.  Flaphead has written a small script which gets them all and has published them on: http://blog.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2006/08/17/3514.aspx.  There are a number of general tips along with the Exchange tips.  Here is an example: Tip of the day #29...

Background "jobs" and PowerShell

August 30, 2006 Aug 30, 2006 08/30/06
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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 you how in his latest blog entry: http://jtruher.spaces.live.com/...

Automating Dell Battery Replacement Discovery

August 30, 2006 Aug 30, 2006 08/30/06
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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 Totally cool.  Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows ...

PowerShell Namespsaces

August 30, 2006 Aug 30, 2006 08/30/06
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A summary of the Namespaces PowerShell defines and uses.   System.Management.Automation System.Management.Automation serves as the root namespace for PowerShell.  The namespace contains the types a developer would use to implement a Cmdlet.   Sub-namespaces are defined for specific sections of the API that are used by specific ...

Exchange 2007 Windows PowerShell Script Contest

August 28, 2006 Aug 28, 2006 08/28/06
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Josh Maher has an exchange oriented blog at http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/ .  He is running a contest to for the best Exchange 2007 script ( http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/powershell-scripting-for-exchange-2007/ ) and I offered to donate the prize of a copy of Bruce Payette's book PowerShell in Action ( http://...

Windows PowerShell RC2 Release Notes (DRAFT)

August 25, 2006 Aug 25, 2006 08/25/06
PowerShell Team
We are finishing up work on Windows PowerShell RC2.  While I can't announce an availability date at this point, I know that a lot of you are eager to see what is coming.  I think you'll be pleased.  Here are our draft release notes for RC2.  Note that this documents the major changes and not the bugfixes.   Jeffrey ...

Fun with PowerShell – character manipulation…

August 21, 2006 Aug 21, 2006 08/21/06
PowerShell Team
I was investigating a localization test failure today and ran into the following error message:   'actual error is 慌爠捡湩⁥敤氠捥整牵긠䗿尺꿿渠攧楸瑳⁥慰⁳畯渠攧瑳瀠獡甠潤獳敩⹲਍, expected '   Since it was failing in the French locale, getting what appeared to be a Chinese error message didn’t...

More Windows PowerShell and Active Directory

August 10, 2006 Aug 10, 2006 08/10/06
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Superstar MOW is at it again with his 7th! blog on using Windows PowerShell and Active Directory.  Check it out at: http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/08/powershell-and-active-directory-part-7.html Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/Aspen ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/...