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Last Thursday, we had our first meeting of PowerShell Script Club on the Microsoft Campus. Script Clubs are really cool. They're kind of like a hands on lab with no set topic or teacher. You bring an idea for a script, and ask your fellow PowerShell users about help getting the script written.  Leave a comment if you’d like to set up a local s...

Want a couple hundred new cmdlets?  Download the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 and check out all the cmdlets that we've been dying to talk about but have not been able to.  Also, take a look at what is missing and complain early, often and loudly.  And of course -don't forget to blog about what you find. Download details HE...

Sylvain Galineau just sent me a pointer to a cool site which has reference information for multiple shells:  CMD, PS, BASH, ORACLE, and SQLSERVER.  It's not complete but it is a nice reference point.  Enjoy it HERE.   Thanks Sylvain! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell ...

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that the Beta release of Windows server 2008 R2 supports managing Remote Desktop services using PowerShell.  You can now configure and manage all RDS role services and components using PowerShell.  For example, below are few management tasks that you can now do with PowerShell 1.   ...

This VIDEO explains the real reason why PowerShell is case-insensitive.  (just joking - the video is deadly funny!). 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.m...

PowerShell remoting is built on top of Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management protocol. You can use winrm.cmd command line tool to query and manage winrm settings. PowerShell V2 CTP3 contains a wsman provider for you to manage winrm settings with the standard *-Item cmdlets . Let’s try it out: PS C:\...

Joel (Jaykul) Bennett has a cool post HERE where he is experimenting with some GUI scripting toolkits and a utility Out-WPF.  You can also checkout a Screencast of Out-WPF working HERE.  It is very cool and very short so give it a look-see. Scripting GUIs with PowerShell is going to be a REALLY BIG DEAL going forward. Jeffrey Snover [MS...

You can have a lot of fun with PowerShell.  Makes sense right - we're busting our butts off and we get to define it so why wouldn't we make it fun? Your busting your butts off at your job as well so why shouldn't your tools be fun?  Right? In particular, our late binding of names allows you to do some really cool, really powerful stuf...

Scott Herold has published the first of a three part series called Getting Started With PowerShell and PowerGUI in your Virtual Infrastructure.  I believe that MOST admins should spend time getting  PowerGUI in focus and especially those admins that are intimidated by the command line interface.  Scott only has part 1 of his series a...

A number of PowerShell MVPs and PowerShell team members are helping me to compile a table of contents for our blog, which basically means that I’m getting to go back and revisit all of the fun stuff posted to the PowerShell blog over the past few years.  It’s a fun an educational process, and, hopefully, when we’re done the blog will be a much...