Automating the world one-liner at a time…
September 30, 2009Sep 30, 200909/30/09During the development of any product, the vision for the upcoming release is driven by the desire to help as many customers in the most effective way possible.
One of the interesting aspects of a release is balancing the effort you spend on different aspects of that project:
New features and broad changes designed to address significantly new customer scenarios.
September 20, 2009Sep 20, 200909/20/09We like to say that PowerShell uses Verb-Noun naming. If we were accurate, we would say that PowerShell uses Verb-PrefixNoun naming. For instance: Get-WinEvent . WIN is a prefix for Windows. Every now and again people look at this and ask “what’s up with command prefixes ?!?”.
September 19, 2009Sep 19, 200909/19/09Per Østergaard has a great blog entry with all the steps for enabling this HERE. You’ll want to bookmark this one. 🙂
Enjoy!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:
September 13, 2009Sep 13, 200909/13/09Most of us are familiar with the traditional use of Select –ExpandProperty <propertyname>. This takes a the value of an incoming object, enumerates its values and outputs each of those values as a single record on the output stream after adding any properties specified by the –PROPERTIES <propertyname[]>
September 12, 2009Sep 12, 200909/12/09One of the things I want us to consider doing in the future is to leverage our Universal Code Execution infrastructure to execute any kind of code. For example, imagine that I have some script foo.vbs, I’d like to do the following:
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September 11, 2009Sep 11, 200909/11/09PowerShell MVP Jaykul gave a presentation to the NY PowerShell user group and was kind enough to post the text of his slides HERE. One of the problems I have in talking about V2 is that there is SO much good stuff that I often get the levelling wrong – spending too much time on one area and then needing to skip over others.
September 11, 2009Sep 11, 200909/11/09Someone just tweeted a link to Scott Hanselman’s 2007 blog (an oldie but goodie) about how he used PowerShell to analyze the WebLog data from his podcasts. He provides a beautiful example of I like to call the “Admin Development model”.
September 10, 2009Sep 10, 200909/10/09Good things come to those who wait. Please download these bits and let us know if you have any problems with them.
https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads
Just to be clear, this download contains the latest version of both PowerShell and WINRM.
SNOOPY DANCE!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Distinguished EngineerVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:
September 9, 2009Sep 9, 200909/9/09We have made changes to PowerShell connect site last month with the goal of making it easier for users to submit and share feedback. We also changed the page layout to make it more user friendly.
Take a look at our new site https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell
September 8, 2009Sep 8, 200909/8/09After WMF (Windows Management Framework ), i.e., the combined download package of Powershell, WsMan and BITS, for Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to the Web on Aug. 13th, we can feel the high expectation for the final WMF releases from our customers.
