Automating the world one-liner at a time…
June 23, 2007Jun 23, 200706/23/07The 2 day course PYGPOWER – PowerShell for Administrators is being offered in London by Pygmalion.
I’ve been told by a couple of sources that the European demand for PowerShell training is huge – even more so than in the US.
June 23, 2007Jun 23, 200706/23/07Keith Hill reports in his blog HERE , that the PowerShell Community Extensions project has release Version 1.1.1.
If you aren’t already turned on to PSCX, this is a good time to start. This is a maintenance release which resolves 30 issues but it also adds 5 new features.
June 21, 2007Jun 21, 200706/21/07You’ve just got to stop and take 4 minutes to watch David Aiken’s demonstration of how easy it is to host PowerShell in a GUI. Seriously, it is a 4 minute video! Even if you aren’t a developer, it is worth looking at so you understand the concept and the work involved and then you can use that to demand your vendors provide you this function!
June 20, 2007Jun 20, 200706/20/07In my last blog entry, I showed how a script can get the directory it resides in. Jvierra commented:
So being a team member doesn’t make one know everything.
Sad but true!
The interesting thing about this is that at some point I knew this information but then I forgot it so I had to figure it out again.
June 20, 2007Jun 20, 200706/20/07Karl Prosser has been doing great things with PowerShell Analyzer for quite some time now and has finally decided to join forces with Dr. Tobias Weltner and go commercial with it. Given the amazing amount of time and creative thinking that Karl has put into this,
June 20, 2007Jun 20, 200706/20/07Hi,
Attached is the code we used today in the Web cast for the SQL demo provider. Please note this is not a SQL management provider. It simply allows you to query data from a SQL server directly from the cmd line.
June 17, 2007Jun 17, 200706/17/07A while back, Jeffrey posted an article on how to use string expansion and XML casts to build XML documents in-line in a PowerShell script:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/05/29/using-powershell-to-generate-xml-documents.aspx
The overall feel of the approach that Jeffrey described is very much like that of ASP,
June 13, 2007Jun 13, 200706/13/07< Kapil Mathur is in the process of learning PowerShell to work with WMI and wrote up his findings to date – jps>
Automating admin scenarios using PowerShell
The preferred scripting language for the WMI world has been vbscript. But if you are a windows administrator writing WMI scripts, chances are that you have been hearing another name lately- PowerShell.
To compare the scripting experience in between the two,
June 12, 2007Jun 12, 200706/12/07In Dmitry’s PowerBlog, he said that one of the biggest complaints they got about their FREE AD Cmdlets was that you had to register to download them. Now you can download them directly without having to register.
I must say that I’ve got mixed feelings about this.
June 11, 2007Jun 11, 200706/11/07Last week Don Jones gave a great talk at TechEd: Microsoft Windows PowerShell: The Future of Server Administration. Here is the abstract:
Windows PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation command line scripting solution which combines the interactivity of KSH or BASH, the programmability of Perl or Ruby and the production-orientation of AS400 CL or VMS DCL.
