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May 2007 - PowerShell Team

Upcoming PowerShell Webcast

May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007 05/31/07
Steve Lee
TechNet Webcast: Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 (Level 200) Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 1:00 PM Pacific Time To register, please visit: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032342044&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Mark your calendars and register now. I've you are a old time PowerShell...

Tab Expansion by MOW

May 30, 2007 May 30, 2007 05/30/07
Steve Lee
Just when you think it can't get any better, MOW releases a new version of his Tab Expansion scripts and blows the top of your head off. It has been a while since I picked up his latest drops so I had quite a bit to catch up on. Mow (The PowerShell Guy) had been amazingly creative with this. I'm sooooo glad that we decided to make tabexpansion...

New Book: Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step

May 25, 2007 May 25, 2007 05/25/07
Steve Lee
Ed Wilson's book Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step is finally shipping. I ordered my copy a couple of day's ago and I can't wait for it to arrive. I've exchanged emails with Ed a number of times and then I finally got to meet him at a recent event. Ed does a lot of hands-on scripting training for Microsoft so I can't wait to read his ...

Opsware Announces PowerShell Support

May 25, 2007 May 25, 2007 05/25/07
Steve Lee
Opsware's Server Automation System 6.5 now supports PowerShell. Here is what they say: Microsoft Windows PowerShell integration. Server Automation System 6.5's powerful data model is now extended to integrate Microsoft Windows PowerShell, a command line shell and scripting language, to help Windows administrators achieve a higher level of ...

Ctrl-End it All

May 22, 2007 May 22, 2007 05/22/07
Steve Lee
Here's a great hint from one of our Windows PowerShell PMs. We all know that you can interrupt a command by typing Ctrl+C, but did you know that you can erase the end of a typed command line by pressing Ctrl+End, just like in Cmd.exe? The Ctrl+End sequence erases all characters at or after the cursor point on the command line. Try it...

Channel 9 Interview with Bruce Payette

May 22, 2007 May 22, 2007 05/22/07
Steve Lee
A while ago I interviewed Bruce Payette for Channel9. It was fun to do and despite that fact that I've been working with Bruce for years, I learned some new things about him (like – Bruce started out as a sparky!). You can view the interview HERE . I think you'll really enjoy it. Here is the writeup of the interview: Bruce Payette, one of ...

Shell or Scripting Language – It’s Shimmer!

May 22, 2007 May 22, 2007 05/22/07
Steve Lee
Michael has a blog entry HERE where he opines: Actually, you could also say, it is an introduction into Windows Powershell from Microsoft. When I skimmed over the document, I came once again to the conclusion that Powershell is not really a shell, but just another scripting language. He posits the following example from the book as a proof ...

CMD.exe compatibility

May 21, 2007 May 21, 2007 05/21/07
Steve Lee
A few weeks ago I was getting Mark Russinovich up and running on PowerShell. While he liked the power the new model afforded him, he was frustrated because a bunch of things that were simple in CMD.EXE where now either hard or not available. I forget what the specific was but I think he wanted to know how to do the CMD.EXE equivalent of "dir /...

Time Stamping Log Files

May 19, 2007 May 19, 2007 05/19/07
Steve Lee
Per Ostergaard has an interesting blog entry HERE where he discusses the pros/cons of various options for date/time formatting for time stamping log files. He concludes the following worked best for him: "$(Get-Date –f o) Start logging" Let's see what that gives us: [0]PS> "$(Get-Date -f o) Start logging" 2007-05-19T12:20:18.2343750-07:...