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Advanced Debugging in PowerShell

July 13, 2009 Jul 13, 2009 07/13/09
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Here is a collection of tips and tricks to debug PowerShell Read UpThere is a 7-part series of “Debugging Monad Scripts” that Jon Newman wrote a few years ago that covers a lot of tips, including error handling, traps, tracing, and covers a lot of V1 stuff. Clean codeThe best route, is to make sure code is clean, and common errors are ...

Function Help Cannot Share a Cmdlet Help File

July 9, 2009 Jul 9, 2009 07/9/09
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In Windows PowerShell 2.0, you can write help topics for functions, scripts, and modules, just as you do for cmdlets and providers. In fact, as a best practice, you should always include help topics for all shared PowerShell items.  And we make it easy. For functions and scripts, you can write comment-based help topics right in the ...

PowerScripting Podcast update

July 2, 2009 Jul 2, 2009 07/2/09
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PowerScripting Podcast hosted by MVP Hal Rottenberg will have MVPs Joel Bennett & Oisin Grehan. They will talk about PoshCode See it live tonight at 9pm EDT http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast    Next week: MVP Don Jones will talk about security in PowerShell.   Thanks Osama...

Assigning the Output of a SWITCH Statement

July 1, 2009 Jul 1, 2009 07/1/09
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I was just reading the whitepaper Automating Citrix XenApp on XenServer deployments on HP ProLiant servers.  The reason why this works well for them is that the HP Insight Rapid Deployment (RDP) software has the ability to launch scripts at various points.  Citrix has a wide range of cmdlets so they are able to put together a pretty ...

WMI Performance

June 26, 2009 Jun 26, 2009 06/26/09
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Andy 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/...

Detection logic for PowerShell installation

June 25, 2009 Jun 25, 2009 06/25/09
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"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, it is pertinent to have the right ...

New Powershell Survey on Connect

June 24, 2009 Jun 24, 2009 06/24/09
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PowerShell 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? How it should be made better? Please answer these questions by completing this online survey https://...

PowerShell Remoting Protocol Documentation Available

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09
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William 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.  Apparently that is the case.  William found them and put 2 & ...

PowerShell trainings

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09
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PowerShell 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, Program ...

PowerBoots 0.2 is Now Available

June 18, 2009 Jun 18, 2009 06/18/09
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Joel '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, it is a great example of the ...