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Request For Comment One of our partners asked what the guidance was for a product that releases a cmdlet and then decides that they need to deprecate one or more of the parameters in a future release. We don't currently have guidance on this topic so I thought I would tell you what we were thinking of saying and then you can comment about whether...

Lee Holmes' book is now complete and a "rough cut" is available HERE from O'Reilly. This is an early access program where you get access to the book in electronic format before it is completed all the editing passes. The nice thing about this book is that Lee takes a very task-oriented approach to the subject matter (seems appropriate for a tas...

ENJOY! http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-05-10-019-35-OS-SW-DV "Those that don't understand Windows are doomed to recreate it?"  :-) Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter...

Check out Tom Yager's article on TUI (Text User Interface) HERE. People from every corner of the industry are beginning to figure it out.  TEXT (CLI [Command Line Interface]) is your friend. I'm strongly believe that this is a GUI AND CLI issue not a GUI OR CLI issue.  It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, co...

I had an interview with Joe Wilcox from Microsoft Watch.  The podcast is available at: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/podcasts/microsofts_power_play.html Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell Scri...

Don 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 Wind...

Hi, 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: Thanks Wassim [MSFT] <Updated to correct PUSH/POP definitions and capitalize Search - jps>

Intoducing 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.   By re...

During 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. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/06/improved-start-demo-script.aspx http://blogs.msdn.co...

Over 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. While scripts from...