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January 2009 - PowerShell Team

Managing Windows Update From PowerShell

January 31, 2009 Jan 31, 2009 01/31/09
PowerShell Team
James O’Neil just posted how to manage Windows Update with Windows PowerShell Here’s a quick sample of what he can do: Add-WindowsUpdate –Auto to download updates and reboot if needed, Set-WindowsUpdateConfig –n 4 –i to schedule updates (Including the merely recommended)  and Get-WindowsUpdateConfig Check it out: ...

Rename-Drive : Renaming Drives with PowerShell & WMI

January 27, 2009 Jan 27, 2009 01/27/09
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Managing Server Features with PowerShell Cmdlets on Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta

January 26, 2009 Jan 26, 2009 01/26/09
PowerShell Team
If you have used Windows Server 2008, probably you had experience with managing server features. Server Manager is a traditional way to install/uninstall server features. On Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta, Windows PowerShell provides a new approach to managing server features via Server Manager PowerShell cmdlets. This blog will walk through ...

Design of Script Friendly APIs, lessons from $psISE

January 26, 2009 Jan 26, 2009 01/26/09
PowerShell Team
Cmdlets are high level, task-oriented abstractions.  The implementation of cmdlets can talk to anything:  Web services, COM objects, WMI objects, .NET objects – anything.   Depending upon how developers design their API, they can make it easier or harder to write cmdlets.  Now that you can write cmdlets in PowerShell...

PowerShell Wizard

January 25, 2009 Jan 25, 2009 01/25/09
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Ye110wbeard did it again. Check THIS out.  Loads of fun.   Experiment! Enjoy! Engage! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet...

A Bit More On BITS

January 23, 2009 Jan 23, 2009 01/23/09
PowerShell Team
I was in a meeting yesterday talking about BITS and what an awesome service it was.  I described what it did and how it allowed people to avoid a wide range of low-class, pain in the butt problems.  The question then became, "why isn't everyone using it?"  That's a darn good question.  The answer is that we have ...

Why Should I Test With PowerShell?

January 19, 2009 Jan 19, 2009 01/19/09
PowerShell Team
Today, on our internal discussion list, someone asked if there were any advantages to testing with PowerShell versus testing with C#. I was able to come up with 10 quick reasons to test with PowerShell: I hope these reasons help convince other software testers to use PowerShell. It can really make ...