August 2008

PowerShell vs TSQL & Why Learn PowerShell

August 30, 2008 Aug 30, 2008 08/30/08

PowerShell Team

Dan Jones has a great blog HERE explaining why the SQL team decided to support PowerShell when they already had T-SQL. It originally started as an email thread responding to the question posed by an MVP. This was a great question to ask. In many ways, PowerShell is merely trying catch up to what the SQL team has been doing ...

PowerShellPlus V2.0

August 25, 2008 Aug 25, 2008 08/25/08

PowerShell Team

One of the highlights of my IT Forum talks last year came when I had Tobias Weltner demo PowerShellPlus V1.0. It rocked the house. The power and thoughtfullness of the tool was very clear. Since then, Tobias has teamed up with the folks over at Idera to launch a new version of PowersShellPlus they are calling PowerShellPlus ...

Richard Siddaway's talk in Sweden Sept 16th

August 25, 2008 Aug 25, 2008 08/25/08

PowerShell Team

If you're going to be in Sweden on Sept 16th, you have the opportunity to hear Richard Siddaway give 2 PowerShell talks covering: Richard is the founder of the world's first Powershell User Group in the UK and the author of a great blog (that I monitor regularly) HERE. Following the talk will be the first...

V2 Interview: Universal Code Execution Model

August 19, 2008 Aug 19, 2008 08/19/08

PowerShell Team

At TechEd, I did an interview with Kevin Remde where I discussed the V2 Universal Code Execution model in detail. You can see it at: Universal Code Execution Model (UCEM)—a vision of how PowerShell scripts can run anywhere, anytime in just the right semantics. You can access the entire library of interviews HERE. Jeffrey Snover...

Some WMI instances can have their first method call fail and get-member not work in PowerShell V1

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08

PowerShell Team

Due to a problem retrieving the available methods in V1 that we have worked around for the upcoming version of PowerShell, you might experience that the first method call to a WMI object fails with a message that mentions: Exception calling GetType() with “0” argument(s): “...

When NOT To Use "WHERE"

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08

PowerShell Team

I've seen a number of scripts that look like this: GET-XXXX | Where {$_.name -eq "foo"} or GET-XXXX | Where {$_.name -like "A*"} Whenever you see code like this, it is a sign that the GET-XXXX is not designed correctly. (NOTE: GET-XXXX is NOT a porn retrieval cmdlet - it is a standin for any GET-<...

PowerShell Abstractions & the Community

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08

PowerShell Team

Smart guy Don Jones has a good blog entry where he discusses ABSTRACTIONs with the question, "Do I need .NET, WMI, COM, and all that to use PowerShell?" ERGO: PS V2 enables the community to create and share the correct user abstractions so you don't have to wait for MSFT. NOTE: Even when MSFT provides full cmdlet ...

All About Modules

August 9, 2008 Aug 9, 2008 08/9/08

PowerShell Team

One of the coolest new features of Windows PowerShell is PowerShell modules. I've just written a tutorial about how to use them on my personal blog. You can check out the full post for more details, but here are some easy things to remember about modules: The module examples also include a few PowerShell ...

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August 2008 - PowerShell Team

PowerShell vs TSQL & Why Learn PowerShell

PowerShellPlus V2.0

Richard Siddaway's talk in Sweden Sept 16th

V2 Interview: Universal Code Execution Model

Some WMI instances can have their first method call fail and get-member not work in PowerShell V1

When NOT To Use "WHERE"

PowerShell Abstractions & the Community

All About Modules

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