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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 and th...
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 ...
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 to the...
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 keynote ...
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
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-WhatsComin...
The second CTP of PowerShell V2 (CTP2) introduces another new feature called PowerShell Eventing. PowerShell Eventing lets you respond to the asynchronous notifications that many objects support. We didn’t get a chance to fully document these cmdlets in the CTP2, though, so here’s a quick start and primer to help you explore the feature. Dis...
Windows PowerShell Sessions Breakout Sessions MGT253 Introduction to Windows PowerShell Tuesday, June 10 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM, S220 C Speaker(s): Wassim Fayed Level: 200 - Intermediate MGT384 What’s Coming in Windows PowerShell V2? Wednesday, June 11 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, S320 C Spea...
PS C:\> $r = New-PSSessionPS C:\> icm $r {Get-PfxCertificate c:\monad\TestpfxFile.pfx}Enter password:Invoke-Command : The requested operation cannot be completed. The computer must be trusted for delegation and the current user account must be configured to allow delegation.At line:1 char:4+ icm <<<< $r {Get-PfxCertificate c...
Once again MOW proves what a clever guy he is. Check out his blog entry PowerShell V2 CTP2: making Custom Enums using Add-Type. He shows how you can make your own enums using a very simple function he wrote (Add-Enum) which leverages our new Add-Type cmdlet. Wonderful stuff. Add-Type is one of those huge game-changing features that we'v...