Automating the world one-liner at a time…
June 30, 2008Jun 30, 200806/30/08Quest is holding a PowerGUI scripting contest starting tomorrow July 1. If you are not familar with PowerGUI, it is a PowerShell scripting and execution GUI. If you aren’t already a PowerGUI user, here is a great opportunity to kick the tires. If you are already a PowerGUI user,
June 26, 2008Jun 26, 200806/26/08Rod Trent from MyITForum.com has the details 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/hubs/msh.mspx
June 26, 2008Jun 26, 200806/26/08Check out what EWeek has declared to be the #7 Best Microsoft Product:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-Best-and-Worst-Microsoft-Products/8/
And that is Version 1 – wait until they see Version 2!
SNOOPY DANCE!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:
June 22, 2008Jun 22, 200806/22/08The SQL team has been receiving a lot of bashing lately over some of the decisions they made integrating PowerShell into SQL 2008. I thought I would take a couple minutes to clarify a few things, eat some sin and talk about a constructive engagement model between the community and the feature teams implementing PowerShell cmdlets.
June 20, 2008Jun 20, 200806/20/08When you use the Get-Credential cmdlet, you get a GUI dialog box to enter the credentials. This is the “Common Criteria Certified” way of handling credentials. It is also a pain in the butt at times. If you are an admin, you can alter this and request credentials via the command line as follows:
June 19, 2008Jun 19, 200806/19/08SDMSoftware has just released a Group Policy Health Cmdlet HERE.
They have a great, high-quality, 9 minute DEMO VIDEO showing what the cmdlet does and how to work it.
Nice stuff.
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:
June 19, 2008Jun 19, 200806/19/08Marco Shaw is hosting the 6th PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting on June 24th. (See http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html for details and sign-up). He has graciously allowed Wassim and I to present some of the new post-CTP2 things that the PowerShell team is working on.
June 19, 2008Jun 19, 200806/19/08We looked at a lot of CLI models when designing PowerShell. One of them was netsh. One of the things I had a love/hate relationship with was netsh’s use of context. In netsh, you can set context via navigation and then you don’t need to provide that context on the command line.
June 18, 2008Jun 18, 200806/18/08Yup- that’s right. Check it out at superstar Karl Prosser’s blog HERE. He even has a video of it working.
The blog is somewhat of a tease in that he is going to wait till tomorrow to tell us how he did it.
June 17, 2008Jun 17, 200806/17/08By far, the most frequently asked question at TechEd 2008 was, “When will PowerShell V2 Ship?”. We are expressly prohibited from answering that question and I know that that can be frustrating. I can say this:
We are now feature complete with V2.
