Automating the world one-liner at a time…
May 28, 2009May 28, 200905/28/09Oisin Grehan, PowerShell MVP has done a diff between Powershell 2.0 that shipped with Win7 Beta and Win RC… very useful if you have moved to RC build (or planning to do so)
http://www.nivot.org/2009/05/22/PowerShellV20DifferencesBetweenCTP3Win7BetaAndWin7RC.aspx.
PowerShell team thanks Oisin for this useful blog post.
May 28, 2009May 28, 200905/28/09A new feature of Windows PowerShell 2.0 lets you write custom cmdlet help for Windows PowerShell providers. This blog explains how to do it. (The topic will also be covered in excruciating detail in MSDN, but we don’t want you to wait.)
May 26, 2009May 26, 200905/26/09There were quite a few name changes in the ISE Object Model from CTP3 to RC
Using Update-TypeData, we can achieve some parity between the two
We can add aliases to the CTP3 version to make it look like the RC Version
For example,
May 25, 2009May 25, 200905/25/09PowerShell MVPs Hal Rottenberg and Kirk Munro were interviewed for HanselMinutes audio talk show during TechEd 09 – good overview of Powershell
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=180
Osama Sajid, Program Manager
May 22, 2009May 22, 200905/22/09I do this so frequently that I finally put it into a script called Get-WindowTitle.ps1 .
Get-Process |where {$_.mainWindowTItle} |format-table id,name,mainwindowtitle –AutoSize
Here is what it does:
[4696:0]PS> Get-WindowTitle
Id Name MainWindowTitle — —- ————— 2448 mmc Server Manager 4696 powershell
May 21, 2009May 21, 200905/21/09PowerShell V2 ships with two sets of cmdlets for processing event logs, one is *-EventLog set and other is Get-WinEvent.
PS > gcm *EventLog -CommandType cmdlet
CommandType Name Definition
———– —- ———-
Cmdlet Clear-EventLog Clear-EventLog [-LogName] <String[]> [[-Computer…
May 20, 2009May 20, 200905/20/09One of the nifty features of functions in PowerShell is that they can return as many results from as many places as you’d like. In fact, any method or cmdlet that would give you an output if you try it on the command line will also return values from a function.
May 18, 2009May 18, 200905/18/09Ibrahim and I presented session WSV402 at TechEd last week with great attendance. Attached are the slides and demos from the talk.
Dan Harman, Program Manager
Dan Harman
Program Manager
TechEd2009-WSV402-Demos.zip
May 16, 2009May 16, 200905/16/09
Scripting is fun .. and it gets better when you do it as part of Scripting Games hosted by Microsoft Script Center . But wait there is more – this year Scripting Center is hosting Summer Scripting Games in collaboration with PowerShellCommunity.org and PoshCode.org .This announcement comes straight from Tech.Ed 2009.
May 13, 2009May 13, 200905/13/09
I am not attending Tech.Ed but I am getting updates from my friends. PowerShell team is very excited about the offering we have for Tech.Ed this year… frankly, what is the best way to save money on your IT Infrastructure…
