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Object Serialization Directives

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

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Longhorn Server TAP presentation

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

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A few weeks ago, Kenneth Hansen gave a presentation at the Longhorn Server TAP meeting here in Redmond. Attached are his slides and demo scripts.  These are pretty useful if you want to give an overview presentation about PowerShell.   BTW - Some people have asked about this so I thought I would make it clear - please ...

Fun with Paths

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07

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Jeffrey wrote a great post for wizards about the scope of variables in PowerShell, so to maintain balance, I thought I'd weigh in with one for newbies. (Although, to be honest, Jeffrey's description is clear enough for the rest of us.)   There are some newbies here, right?   In a thread about Move-Item on Microsoft.Public.Windows....

How to tell if you are driving behind Snover

April 26, 2007 Apr 26, 2007 04/26/07

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See attached  I told you I loved PowerShell... :-)  Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx ...

Feedback Request: What language do you use to write Cmdlets?

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07

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Hello everyone. I’m the programming writer for the PowerShell developer audience and I would like to know what language you use to write cmdlets. This is a very unscientific survey, yet getting your replies will help me decide how to add VB.NET and C++ sample code in the documentation. The content that I’m writing is the Programmer’s ...

PowerShell Training

April 15, 2007 Apr 15, 2007 04/15/07

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PowerShell had a really big presence at MMS2007. There was a good presence at the exhibition center with a number of vendors demonstrating their PowerShell support. We had a good number of dedicated sessions and it was include in quite a few of the other sessions. Any why not, with PowerShell, teams can do a little bit of work and then ...

PowerShell Integrated with Windows WorkFlow

April 13, 2007 Apr 13, 2007 04/13/07

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Danny Kim, the CTO of Full Armor, has a great 7 minute demo of PowerShell integrated into Windows Workflow up on the DFO Show HERE. He then creates and runs a workflow which takes a CSV file containing a set of WebSites that he wants to create of a set of machines and provisions them. I just spent a few minutes describing what it does and ...

Windows Installer Cmdlets

April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07

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Heath Stewart as recently released a beta of some very cool and useful cmdlets to access WIndows Installer information.  It is a very small number of commands that are easy to get your head around and it is quite useful so you should take sometime and try them out.  In his blog introducing the Cmdlets, Heath states: The ...

MMS 2007: BOF Transcript

April 10, 2007 Apr 10, 2007 04/10/07

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<Sorry for the delay on this one> Greg Ramsey and I did a BOF session on scripting and we created a transcript of the demo session which I have attached to this entry.  Please note that we forgot to start the transcript at the beginnning of the demo so the first couple of entries are me trying to figure out how to re-run the ...