Automating the world one-liner at a time…
June 26, 2009Jun 26, 200906/26/09Andy Cheung wrote a very good blog on WMI performance HERE. Check it out.
Enjoy!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
June 25, 2009Jun 25, 200906/25/09“How do we programmatically detect that PowerShell is installed ?” – This question has started coming up frequently as more folks (both internally and externally) have started to build applications with PowerShell support. As we approach Win7/W2K8-R2 release, which will include PowerShell 2.0 in-box,
June 24, 2009Jun 24, 200906/24/09PowerShell team wants to hear from you.
How easy or difficult it is for you to search PowerShell stuff like learning materials, help , samples, scripts etc? how often do you search for these? and what are your best bets to find information?
June 23, 2009Jun 23, 200906/23/09William Vambenepe has a great blog entry Native “SSH” on Windows via WS-Management that is well worth a read. I know that we’ve been busting our butts documenting our protocols but I hadn’t realized that we actually were posting them where people could get them.
June 23, 2009Jun 23, 200906/23/09PowerShell FAQ : Where I can find useful trainings to learn Poweshell?
Answer: Thanks to PowerShell MVPs, we have this very useful page http://www.powershellcommunity.org/LearningResources.aspx
And this online videos series from Don Jones is very good as well. http://www.idera.com/Promo/Practical-PowerShell/
Thanks
Osama Sajid,
June 18, 2009Jun 18, 200906/18/09Joel ‘Jaykul’ Bennett has just published the 0.2 version of PowerBoots on CodePlex. PowerBoots is a library which allows you to write WPF GUIs in PowerShell. He has a great tutorial HERE that you should definitely check out. In fact, you should check it out even if you aren’t interest in GUIs,
June 17, 2009Jun 17, 200906/17/09Someone as asking about Traps vs Try/Catch and Jason Shirk (PowerShell developer) gave a nice concise and precise answer that I thought I would share with you:
Trap:
Designed for admins
V1 and V2
Introduces a new scope
Is “global”, meaning it applies to all code in the same scope,
June 16, 2009Jun 16, 200906/16/09The 2009 Summer Scripting Games have officially begun. For the last few days the Scripting Guys have been revealing the events one day at a time. For more information on the events, you can refer to this post from ScriptingGuys. This year’s scripting games are partnered with the Microsoft PowerShell MVP’s at PoshCode.org.
June 14, 2009Jun 14, 200906/14/09Have you ever had problems connecting to a network and gotten one of those dialog boxes that offers to repair it? Mostly the networking just works but every now again one of the 10,000 moving parts required to make networking function gets misaligned and I get this dialog box.
June 11, 2009Jun 11, 200906/11/09
Windows Server Site Visits in July 09 (Open to US and Canada participants only)
The Windows Server User Research team wants to conduct site visits to learn from people who are involved in any and all aspects of managing servers!
