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I recently had the pleasure to do an analyst briefing with Michael Cote' of RedMonk.  I really enjoyed it because until recently Michael was working at BMC so we had a number of shared contacts and he had a deep understanding of mgmt issues so I could have a really technically dense conversation with him.  What was humorous was that there...

PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I display large numbers with commas?PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I use .NET formatting strings? As scripters, we often spend tons of times trying to get our data formated just the right way.  Often this is an error-prone, frustrating experience.  Windows PowerShell leverages .NET objects to make this task a ton simpler.  I...

Before my TechEd sessions, I ran a Windows PowerShell script which used animated figures to inform the users how long it would be until the session would start.  It threw out some wisecracks along the way to keep things light and maintain their attention.   A number of people asked me to post the script in the blog.  I'm a littl...

Boy did I have a great time at TechEd!  On Sunday, I got to finally meet Mark Van Orsouw (MOW of  http://mow001.blogspot.com/ fame) and we both ran into Scott Hanselman ( of http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ fame).  It was a blast to spend a couple hours sharing scripts, tips and favorite features.  It really co...

Check out Scott Fulton's latest article about my Windows PowerShell talk at TechEd.  You can also see pictures of the only tie worn at TechEd Boston! :-) http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/14/teched2006_powershell_may_underlie_admin_guis/ For those of you who aren't already Tom's Hardware fans (it has long been one of my favorite sites), you ...

I'll be presenting 2 talks at TechEd in Boston: MGT306 -  Windows PowerShell: Solving Mgmt Problems  6/12 from 9-10:15 MGT308 - Windows PowerShell: Next Generation Command Line Scripting 6/13 10:15-11:30 I've given both these talks before but these are reworked decks so it will be largely new material.  I'll also be showing some feat...

Check out the amazing PowerShellIDE at http://PowerShell.com .   Many of you probably already know Dr Tobias Weltner from his product SystemScripter http://www.scriptinternals.com.  The PowerShell team has been talking to Tobias on and off for years now and those discussions have clearly paid off.  PowerShellIDE is a free "...

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 more about scripting. And how do you repay us? Nasty emails and smear campaigns, that’s how….j...

<WIZARD WARNING>  ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter to a cmdlet was.  The example was OUT-FILE -ENCODING xxx Out current help doesn't te...

A number of people have asked about the PowerShell grammar.  Here is a draft write up (I've also included it as an attachement) that George Xie and Bruce Payette are working on.   Grammar of PowerShell (formerly known as Monad)  is separated into parsing rules and tokenizing rules. Parsing rules in turn can be separated into 4 layers...