August 2008 | PowerShell

PowerShell vs TSQL & Why Learn PowerShell

PowerShell TeamAugust 30, 2008Aug 30, 200808/30/08

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 fo

PowerShellPlus V2.0

PowerShell TeamAugust 25, 2008Aug 25, 200808/25/08

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 Profes

Richard Siddaway's talk in Sweden Sept 16th

PowerShell TeamAugust 25, 2008Aug 25, 200808/25/08

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

PowerShell TeamAugust 19, 2008Aug 19, 200808/19/08

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

PowerShell TeamAugust 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08

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): “Yo

When NOT To Use "WHERE"

PowerShell TeamAugust 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08

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-<SOMETHI

PowerShell Abstractions & the Community

PowerShell TeamAugust 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08

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 coverag

All About Modules

PowerShell TeamAugust 9, 2008Aug 9, 200808/9/08

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 funct

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August 2008 | PowerShell

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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