Automating the world one-liner at a time…
May 9, 2007May 9, 200705/9/07Don Jones is running a survey regarding online training for PowerShell and Vbscript.
Please help move the community forward by spending ~ 5 minutes to answer 10 questions at:
http://blog.sapien.com/current/2007/5/9/online-training-what-do-you-think.html
Cheers!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:
May 8, 2007May 8, 200705/8/07Hi,
The PowerShell team is planning on adding the following verbs to the standard PowerShell verbs’ list. Please review and send us any feedback you might have:
Invoke
To introduce or put into operation (This verb has been a standard verb but was never officially added to the list)
Pop
To remove something from the top of a stack.
May 8, 2007May 8, 200705/8/07Intoducing the Cmdlet Help Editor V1.0
Cmdlet Help Editor enables you to create help topics for Windows PowerShell cmdlets in the XML format that Windows PowerShell reads. Help text created in Cmdlet Help Editor can be displayed immediately by a Windows PowerShell get-help command without any additional transforms or formatting.
May 6, 2007May 6, 200705/6/07During my webcast on 5/3/2007 I used jeffrey’s start-demo script to run my powershell demos. Lot of folks asked if we could share it. Jeffrey has already shared out the script in the following blogs. See the links below if you missed it earlier.
May 5, 2007May 5, 200705/5/07Over on the Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell newsgroup Stefan had a number of questions about the following scenario:
I want to start ps1 scripts over UNC paths or mapped network shares. I tried to change the execution policy to unrestricted but I always get the following prompt:
Security WarningRun only scripts that you trust.
May 4, 2007May 4, 200705/4/07This month’s TechNet Magazine has an article: Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell. They are good enough to include all the code as a download.
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:
May 3, 2007May 3, 200705/3/07Following Slashdot’s review of Bruce’s book (PowerShell in Action ), a ton of people chimed in with comments. One of the most interesting as this one from nacturation:
Imagine someone gave you some library code, but to use the code you couldn’t pass in variables,
May 2, 2007May 2, 200705/2/07Slashdot has a review of Bruce’s book at: http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/1345254
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
May 2, 2007May 2, 200705/2/07As part of Longhorn Server Beta3 release, we are doing a series of webcasts discussing new features in Longhorn Server. This Thursday we will be giving a combined talk that gives an Overview of Server Manager and Windows PowerShell. Hope you all can join in.
May 1, 2007May 1, 200705/1/07Filing Bugs
We need your help to make sure PowerShell isn’t just a great product, but a very high-quality product! If you run into any bug or usability issue, please file a bug, even if you see a typo in the documentation.
