Automating the world one-liner at a time…
April 30, 2009Apr 30, 200904/30/09I installed Win7 RC build yesterday and tried to enable PS Remoting. I launched PowerShell elevated, ran Enable-PsRemoting cmdlet but it gave an “access denied” error message
PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-PSRemoting -forceWinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine.Set-WSManQuickConfig : Access is denied.At line:50 char:33+
April 30, 2009Apr 30, 200904/30/09Slides and demos from the Monday introductory talk at MMS 2009.
PowerShell has been getting a lot of attention at MMS 2009. The community around PowerShell is also being noticed by folks and was even “singled-out” at the Keynote on Monday by Bob Kelly 🙂
-Hemant Mahawar [MSFT]Program Manager
MMS2009-SE05-Easy_Automation.zip
April 30, 2009Apr 30, 200904/30/09Slides and demos from the Wednesday talk at MMS 2009.
Momentum around PowerShell has been great here. Lots and lots of products are showcasing the automation through PowerShell.
-Hemant Mahawar [MSFT]Program Manager
MMS2009-SE06-Windows_PowerShellV2.zip
April 30, 2009Apr 30, 200904/30/09Attached are the slides and demos that I used today during my MMS talk.MMS is a great conference. It provides the opportunity to meet and talk to super smart people working on similar problems and learn from their scars.
Enjoy!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Distinguished EngineerVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:
April 22, 2009Apr 22, 200904/22/09One of the systems administration hurdles of the post-Vista world is figuring out how to make a script run as an administrator.
In PowerShell V2, using the Start-Process cmdlet, this is a one liner that will get the job done:
Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe"
April 22, 2009Apr 22, 200904/22/09With the recent changes in v2 to increase the visibility of the cmdlet design guidelines, we want to make sure we have a solid set of verbs on the approved verb list before we ship v2. We’ve already talked with a number of partners and customers and have made some recent changes to the verb list.
April 21, 2009Apr 21, 200904/21/09Jeffry Snover and many other have used Start-Demo in powershell.exehttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-powershell.aspx
Continuing the tradition, we now have ISEDemo.psm1
To use it, start ISE and runImport-Module ISEDemo.psm1 #(attached)Start-Demo c:\path\to\demofile.txt
Type enter to execute the command once its finished typing
You can escape to clear and type some other command
To get the next command again,
April 21, 2009Apr 21, 200904/21/09I just got a ping on our internal discussion list about how to get at the Performance counters in PowerShell. In V2, we’ve got some nifty cmdlets to help read performance counters.
Here are a few of quick one liners to get you started:
# List all of the performance counters you can monitor
Get-Counter –listSet * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Paths
# Get one sample of the processor time
Get-Counter ‘\Processor(*)\% Processor Time’
# Get a sample of the processor time until you press CTRL + C
Get-Counter ‘\Processor(*)\% Processor Time’ -Continuous
Hope this Helps,
April 20, 2009Apr 20, 200904/20/09ISE has an F1 help feature, where if you press F1 when your caret is over a cmdlet name, context sensitive help opens.
Shay Levy has a nice post on F1 help in the ISE herehttp://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/01/31/using-help-in-powershell-ise.aspxHe adds “I wanted to mimic the way ISE’s help works when you press F1 and allow an alias to be expanded to cmdlet name.” and he did it with calling hh.exe on the link
There is an alternative way;
April 20, 2009Apr 20, 200904/20/09If you’re a PowerShell fan, and in the Seattle area, then you should know that Andy Schneider (of Get-PowerShell.com) will be hosting a Script Club event at the Avanade offices.
Script Club is a great way to learn PowerShell. Ideally, you bring a laptop,
