With the release of RC1 of PowerShell, we've closed down on doing much feature work and are primarily polishing the product. This means fixing bugs, cleaning up usability issues, and really making sure this is a quality product. For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft's milestone naming terminology, RC1 stands for Release Candidate 1. This means...
<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder: when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN PROCESSPS> get-process |where {$_.handles -ge 900} |sort handles Handles NPM(K) &n...
I was delighted to discover that DesktopEngineer.Com is now offering Windows PowerShell training: http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 . This is the first (and therefore BEST :-) ) commercial training available for PowerShell (formally known as Monad). I consider this a huge milestone for the project. One of my core beliefs is: ...
After releasing RC1, internal testing discovered two issues that we feel warrant an update to our RC1: If you’ve already installed the release candidate, please uninstall it, reboot, and install the updated version. The updated version is available on the Download Center, as before: X86 Windows PowerShell latest build: http://go.microsof...
Windows PowerShell, previously codenamed Monad, is Microsoft’s next generation shell. It forms a large part of the Windows Server Division’s future, and we are hiring! We have two openings in our development team for strong individual contributors to help us plan and deliver future releases. Do you want to help create an amazing Windows management...
You can now view Bob Muglia's MMS keynote address on the Web at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/material.mspx . Starting around minut 29:00, he makes the PowerShell announcement and brings superstar Vivek Sharma on stage to demo Exchange 2007 and PowerShell. This is a great demo so if you haven't seen it...
Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code in the interpreter that takes each of the possible characters and maps it into the canonical repre...
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 the current WMI examples are really trivial VBScripts using PowerShell constructs.&nb...
<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": "Zug...
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 System properties as well as the Object properties and that this wasn't what t...
