Automating the world one-liner at a time…
August 30, 2008Aug 30, 200808/30/08Dan 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.
August 25, 2008Aug 25, 200808/25/08One 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 Professional Edition.
August 25, 2008Aug 25, 200808/25/08If you’re going to be in Sweden on Sept 16th, you have the opportunity to hear Richard Siddaway give 2 PowerShell talks covering:
PowerShell Overview
Learning Powershell
Using WMI
Break
Administering Active Directory
Administering IIS 7
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.
August 19, 2008Aug 19, 200808/19/08At 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.
August 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08Due 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): “You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.”
August 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08I’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:
August 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08Smart 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?”
I agree that the correct abstraction for users (admins, etc) is Cmdlets (and Providers [Don didn’t mention this but he should have]).
August 9, 2008Aug 9, 200808/9/08One 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:
Modules can be scripts with functions,
