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Tonight is the Virtual Launch Party @ PowerScripting Podcast

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09

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Tonight is the night!  I was super happy when we shipped V1 of PowerShell.  It started the journey.  That said, V2 is the release that we really wanted to release.  Today Windows 7 is publicly available and every version has PowerShell V2 in it.  Tonight – we party! I’ll be cracking a beer with Hal ...

PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party

October 17, 2009 Oct 17, 2009 10/17/09

PowerShell Team

I’ll be joining Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz (hosts of the PowerScripting Podcast) in a PowerShell V2 Virtual Launch Party this Thursday, Oct 22nd, 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-4).  For more details and info on how to join us go HERE. Hmmm, I wonder if it is BYOB… :-) Experiment!  Enjoy!  Engage! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] ...

Announcing: Open Source PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer

October 16, 2009 Oct 16, 2009 10/16/09

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http://www.codeplex.com/CmdletDesigner During the development of Windows 7, most cmdlet design and help authoring in Microsoft went through an internal tool called the “Cmdlet Designer.” (image) The Cmdlet Designer makes it much easier for teams to concentrate on the design, naming, and consistency of their cmdlets, while also ...

What's Up With Command Prefixes?

September 20, 2009 Sep 20, 2009 09/20/09

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We 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 ?!?”.  Actually, the question usually ...

Remoting for non-Admins

September 19, 2009 Sep 19, 2009 09/19/09

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Per 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...

Select –ExpandProperty <PropertyName>

September 13, 2009 Sep 13, 2009 09/13/09

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Most 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[]> parameter.  ...

The Glory of Quick and Dirty Scripting

September 12, 2009 Sep 12, 2009 09/12/09

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One 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: PS>  Invoke-Command –FilePath foo.vbs –computer (cat servers.txt) I was about to file a record ...

What’s New in PowerShell V2 – By Joel “Jaykul” Bennett

September 11, 2009 Sep 11, 2009 09/11/09

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PowerShell 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.  ...

Analyzing Weblog Data Using the Admin Development Model

September 11, 2009 Sep 11, 2009 09/11/09

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Someone 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”.  The whole point of the Admin Development Model is that you use tools to quickly and ...