Automating the world one-liner at a time…
February 25, 2007Feb 25, 200702/25/07In the Newsgroup Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell, BJ Stigall asked what the equivalent of the batch file PAUSE function was in PowerShell.
There were lots of good answers that came close but I think the one below comes the closest (and a little bit better).
February 25, 2007Feb 25, 200702/25/07<This is a super-important issue so you should definitely start using this in your scripts that you share with others (that have side effects on the system). Please try it out and blog about it to others so that it becomes a community norm.
February 25, 2007Feb 25, 200702/25/07Apparently one of the main themes of NetBeans 6.0 is going to be support for scripting languages (yet another indication of the industry wide ascendency of Scripting. It is a VERY good time to embrace scripting or “learn PowerShell and increase your integrated lifetime earnings”
February 24, 2007Feb 24, 200702/24/07Over on MyItForum.com, I came upon a VBScript in a forum to find all the PNP entities associated with a USBController. I rewrote it in PowerShell and was pretty happy with the results so I thought I would share them. The first thing you need to understand is that the WMI class WIN32_USBControllerDevice describes the connection between USB controllers (The Antecedent) and their logical devices [CIM_LOGICALDEVICE] (the Dependent).
February 24, 2007Feb 24, 200702/24/07I’d like to draw your attention to a really important blog entry that Jim Truher recently made: PowerShell Extended Types (Includes a TYPES.XSD). In that entry, he talks about how powerful PowerShell’s extended type system is. He is absolutely correct on this point,
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07<Today we have a guest blog entry from Ed Wilson – Author of the upcoming MSPRESS book, Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step>
<2/16 fixed a bug pointed out by Richard Siddaway [use TotalMinutes instead of Minutes for the out-gauge]. Thanks Richard!
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07Alistair Young made a Note to Self :
In a standard PowerShell installation, “new” is not an alias for “new-object”. You added that. You should therefore know better that to make this kind of dumbass mistake.
We talked about making “New”
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07Ken Taylor has a PowerShell blog over on LiveSpaces. Today he posted a blog entry, Enabling RDP with PowerShell, that had me jumping for joy as a perfect example of the Admin Development Model in action. The whole point of the admin development model is that you use tools to quickly investigate the system and manage it.
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07Brad Wilson – the .NET Guy recently posted a set of scripts showing how to drive TortoiseSVN from PowerShell. I thought I would use one of these to highlight how you can leverage the PowerShell semantics to do more with less code.
February 19, 2007Feb 19, 200702/19/07Since a lot of people have been asking about it, yes – my book “Windows PowerShell in Action” is finally in stock and available on-line from http://amazon.com , http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ as well as directly from the publisher http://manning.com/powershell . It should be available in the store at Barnes and Noble and Borders later this week.
