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Richard Siddaway founded the first PowerShell UserGroup in the UK Get-PSUGUK. Now a second UserGroup has been formed. This one covers Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Their web site is available at: www.powershell-ag.de www.powershell-ag.ch www.powershell-ag.at They are holding a kickoff meeting Sept 19th at the MS Campus in Unterschleiss...
Someone has compiled a list of the 25 Most Active Projects in CodePlex. PowerShell has 2 entries in that list. Congratulations to: PowerShell Community Extensions - provides a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions and scripts for Windows PowerShell that members of the community have expressed interest in ...
The fine folks at Shell Tools just released a preview of their upcoming PowerShell Plus interactive shell – a 4 minute trailer to hint at things to come. http://www.powershell.com/plus In PowerShell V1, working within a decades-old console host is what users find the most frustrating. That frustration doesn’t go unnoticed, and was even expect...
PowerShell has a lot of books to choose from and more are coming. See attached. :-) 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 Tower...
I got sick of fiddling around with WMI namespace so I produced a really simple script to cope with this. I call it Get-WmiNamespace: PS> cat .\Get-WMIChildNameSpace.ps1param ($Namespace="root\cimv2", $Computer=".", $Column=4)Get-WmiObject -Computer:$Computer -NameSpace:$NameSpace __NameSpace |Format-Wide -Column:$ColumnPS>PS> .\Get-WmiC...
(or How to Define the Help File Name in a Custom Windows PowerShell Snap-in) We've discovered an error in our instructions for creating a custom Windows PowerShell snap-in. This error prevents Get-Help from finding the help files for cmdlets in the snap-in. We'd like to come clean about our mistake and to warn you about the effects of copyin...
This post builds on Jeffrey's post on wmi events - http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/01/28/working-with-wmi-events.aspx Powershell V1 does not give a cmdlet to support WMI events, I have written a simple powershell script to help users who want to write monitoring with powershell for V1(Please see attached.) (A brief intro of WMI...
We just held a partner Conference in Denver. We give awards to recognize those partners that really "get it" and are able to take our technologies and use them to develop great customer solutions. Quest Software was awarded Global ISV Partner of the Year for their adoption and great use of PowerShell! Great things happen because of great people. ...
Ben Pearce has a posted a nice deck describing how to manage Virtual Server with PowerShell. Check it out HERE. Enjoy! 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/h...
Some people have asked the question, "Why Cmdlets?". If you already have a reasonable API, what is the value in writing Cmdlets? I'll provide a quick answer here but we should probably include a good write up of this in our documentation. The most important thing to realize about cmdlets is that it is all about mindset and attitude. The mindset of...