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 functions ...
On Monday VMWare offically released their PowerShell cmdlets in a ship vehicle called the VMWare Infrastructure (VI) Toolkit. What could be better than that? Yup - you guessed it - it's FREE!! Check out the details HERE. Download the free toolkit HERE. Free! What could be better than that? Well they could pay you to us...
There are a number of scenarios where you might want to call PowerShell from VBScript. You might already have an VBScript that does some function and you want to update it to include some PowerShell operation but don't want to convert the entire script to PowerShell. You might have some people on your staff that are very comf...
Recently a product team asked me what entries they should put into their Program Groups folder. They need an entry to launch their admin GUI and to launch PowerShell with their snapin (they could do this by launching a Minishell which is a non-extensible version of PowerShell that has that products snapins baked in or they could do this...
The Windows SDK team would like your feedback on what features you would like most in a future Windows SDK. One of your choices is a PowerShell Build Environment. If this is something that would be useful to you, go HERE and take the survey and let them know. Cheers! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner Archit...
I think I've blogged about this in the past but I keep getting asked about the cool PowerShell sticker I have on my laptop so I'll mention it again. The superstars at Nsoftware are giving away free PowerShell stickers HERE. No laptop is complete without one! :-)Hmmmm there's a thought: "PowerShell Inside". J...
Klaus Graefensteiner has a great blog entry HERE where he publishes a great function called Shift-FileIndex. He was scanning files which created names with indexes (e.g. Vacation_0021.jpg ). Being the real world - things went wrong and he had duplicated pages which he then deleted which then left holes in the numbering and so on. ...
For the longest time, people have been asking me when they'll be able to use PowerShell in ASP. It makes perfect sense - PowerShell is a great language that let's you do amazing things quickly. Sadly, my answer has always been: At Microsoft, to ship is to choose. We are trying to solve the problem of administrating and automating Windo...
Windows PowerShell comes with a lot of help files and documents, but, somehow, my favorite and most-frequently-used help is the help that I get by typing "Get-Help" in the console. And I have always wondered why this help is not readily available as a single document, ready to be viewed, searched, and printed. Well, now it is, w...
I has a blast talking to a group of customers in Atlanta today about where PowerShell is and where it is going. Attached is the deck I presented. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&nb...
