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New and Improved PowerShell Connect Site

September 9, 2009 Sep 9, 2009 09/9/09
PowerShell Team
We 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   Details of the changes made:  A.     ...

Help Us Improve Microsoft Windows Management Framework

September 8, 2009 Sep 8, 2009 09/8/09
PowerShell Team
After 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. We would like you know your feedbacks are also crucial to help us...

Learn Windows PowerShell 2.0 with PowerGUI

September 7, 2009 Sep 7, 2009 09/7/09
PowerShell Team
PowerGUI has a cool way to get you started with PowerShell 2.0 features.. 'Code Snippets'. Take a at this video to know more. http://poshoholic.com/2009/08/28/learn-powershell-v2-features-using-powershell-code-snippets/ Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manager  ...

Seatle Script Club – Tonight (9/3/2009)

September 3, 2009 Sep 3, 2009 09/3/09
PowerShell Team
Tonight is the second meeting of Script Club in Seattle at Avanade.  If you're in the area tonight between 7:15 and 8:30, feel free to stop by to get help learning or using PowerShell. Tonight's meeting is at: Avanade, 818 Stewart St, Seattle, WA at 7:15 PM More info is below.  Hope to see you there: James Brundage [MSFT] ...

Exploring WMI with PowerShell V2

August 30, 2009 Aug 30, 2009 08/30/09
PowerShell Team
I was messing around with my son’s computer today trying to figure out why one of his programs wouldn’t work.  I was going to use ProcMon to monitor the processes but wasn’t sure what the processes where.  So first I had to figure out what processes were getting started when I ran his program.  I guessed that there was a ...

PowerShell Interview

August 30, 2009 Aug 30, 2009 08/30/09
PowerShell Team
I recently did a pretty wide ranging interview for TechNet with Osama Sajid.  They broke it up into 3 sections.  You can find the first section (along with pointers to the others) HERE.  In part 3 I talk about the idea of Integrated Lifetime Earnings and how this is affected by PowerShell.  I think this is a pretty ...

Plus (+) in .NET Class Names

August 26, 2009 Aug 26, 2009 08/26/09
PowerShell Team
On one of our internal discussion aliases, someone asked why do we need a plus (+) the class name for FTP? Typically, you would expect this to work [Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp], but it doesn’t. The solution is [Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp] and it has something to do with nested classes In C#, a nested class looks something like public class ...