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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 product...

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. ...

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 the orig...

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 point:...

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 /q". T...

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" 2007-05-19T12:20:18.2343750-07:00 Star...

Scott Fulton has an interesting PowerShell article over at Betanews: Why Can't PowerShell Be the Windows Command Prompt? He has a number of great quotes from Ian McDonald. Here are a couple of my favorites: In five years' time, McDonald believes, we'll all be able to look back and identify the "inflection point" where manageability of remote serv...

I recently did an interview with Thomas Caywood of Redmond Developer Magazine about how .NET developers where finding PowerShell to be a useful tool for their development environments. I was pleased to see that he contacted a number of developers to get their stories and he included them in the article (HERE). If you think about the typical Unix d...

Today the Compute Cluster group announced the release of their Tool Pack HERE. This includes a monitoring tool, a ping/pong diagnostic tool and (drum roll please……) a PowerShell Snap-in which provides a provider and a set of commands. I really like what they have done. I've include the text of their about file so that you can see for yourself. Her...

The Microsoft Command Line Standard is now published HERE. I wrote the draft of this document (Dean Tsaltas did the editing) to define the operational standard for any command line tool independent of the technology that is implemented in. Clearly the preferred implementation is Windows PowerShell. There is no cheaper way to implement the standard ...