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Windows, PowerShell and WMI – Unveiling Microsoft's Best Kept Secret

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
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I mentioned that one of my favorite TechEd 2008 talks was Ben Pearce's talk, "Windows, PowerShell and WMI - Unveiling Microsoft's Best Kept Secret".  Attached is Ben's presentation.  You can get his demos at the following locations: http://blogs.technet.com/benp/archive/2008/06/12/tech-ed-2008-demo-1-administering-windows.aspx http...

Explaining Objects To Non-Programmers

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
PowerShell Team
One of my favorite TechEd 2008 talks was Ben Pearce's talk, "Windows, PowerShell and WMI - Unveiling Microsoft's Best Kept Secret".  It was a great talk all up but the one thing I walked away saying, "I've got to steal that", was Ben's explaining of Objects. Anyone that has every tried to explain PowerShell to friends or co-workers will ...

Working With Web Services (Post CTP2 V2 Feature)

June 14, 2008 Jun 14, 2008 06/14/08
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Let me start by first apologizing for sharing some information that you are not going to be able to go out and try right away.  During one of the interactive Q&A sessions at TechEd, people asked about working with Web Services.  I referred to a feature that we were working on and then Hal Rottenberg asked me to blog about some of...

Block Comments in V2

June 14, 2008 Jun 14, 2008 06/14/08
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Smith Catar was looking at my Tech Ed demos and noticed that I used block comments.  These are not in the CTP that you have so I guess I sorta let this one leak out.  Yes - V2 will have BLOCK COMMENTS!!! Block comments start with "<# and end with "#>".  e.g. <#  This isablock comment#> Happy happy.  Block ...

Get-OSSku.ps1

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
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Nitin Bhat the WMI PM recently pointed HERE to answer the question, how do know what OS SKU a machine is running? You can run the expression $((gwmi win32_operatingsystem).OperatingSystemSKU) to the the value and then look it up on that table. I decided to turn it into a script you can use.  It is rock-simple but it saves you the typing ...

Best of Tech Ed: Breakthrough Product of the year => PowerGUI

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
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The Best of Tech Ed 2008 were awarded and PowerGUI won Breakthrouth Product of the Year.  WOW what an honor and acknowledgement of great work! Congratulations to Dmitry, Kirk and the rest of that team!  You guys have brought a lot of great visibility to Quest Software.  Your bosses should be fetching you cups of coffee and...

PowerShell & OpenXML

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
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Eric White just posted an amazing set of Cmdlets on CodePlex.  They allow you to use PowerShell to manipulate OpenXML documents to do all sorts of fun things, like create graphs from the output of PowerShell, automatically generate documents from XML, and extract comments from a document.  Below is an 8-minute video introducing you ...

Yes, But What About The FLAVOR?

June 13, 2008 Jun 13, 2008 06/13/08
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 Kirk Munro posted a blog entry HERE saying how thrilled he was at level of presence PowerShell had at TechEd 2008. It was a VERY good TechEd for PowerShell.  There were lots of breakout sessions, lots of hands on labs and interactive Q&A, lots of vendor support in the exhibit, lots of books, quite a few mentions in ...

TechEd: MGT384 What's Coming In PowerShell V2 – DEMOs

June 12, 2008 Jun 12, 2008 06/12/08
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Attached are the demos I used in that talk. 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 WhatsComingInV2Demos.zip...

TechEd: MGT384 What's Coming In PowerShell V2

June 12, 2008 Jun 12, 2008 06/12/08
PowerShell Team
Attached are the slides I presented at TechEd yesterday.  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 Mgt384-Jsnover-...