June 2010 | PowerShell

PowerShell V2.0 Book Available in Italian

PowerShell TeamJune 26, 2010Jun 26, 201006/26/10

Efran Cobisi has published a PowerShell V2 book in Italian. The title is “Windows PowerShell 2.0 – Guida completa” and is a 448 pages long. Efran describes it as “a collection of theory, insides and hints on the scripting environment, the programming language and the most used cmdlets.

Improving Parameter Set Design

PowerShell TeamJune 25, 2010Jun 25, 201006/25/10

Designing useable cmdlets is part engineering and part art. It’s not an easy task to define the conceptual boundaries of a cmdlet (where does one cmdlet end and the next begin) or to provide great feature control without inundating the user with parameters.

Using New-WebServiceProxy to get, modify, and add items to a list in SharePoint 2007

PowerShell TeamJune 24, 2010Jun 24, 201006/24/10

The motivation
Let’s say that you want to retrieve and modify a list in a SharePoint site, but you don’t have access to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. One possible solution is to try to search online or ask someone to let you copy the dll.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 on Windows Update

PowerShell TeamJune 22, 2010Jun 22, 201006/22/10

Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3.
Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 are also available as part of the Windows Management Framework (WMF) Core Package on the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs

PowerShell TeamJune 21, 2010Jun 21, 201006/21/10

[This isn’t only a PowerShell topic, but I’ve been asked a few times, so I thought I post the answer here.]
If you’ve visited TechNet or MSDN lately, you’ll notice that there are new view options for the pages. TechNet has a new ScriptFree view,

PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio

PowerShell TeamJune 21, 2010Jun 21, 201006/21/10

Quest has released a beta of PowerGUI Visual Studio (aka PowerGUI VSX).
Check out Kirk Munro’s blog entry HERE for more details. Check out this screenshot:

I can’t wait to install it and kick the tires!
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Kudos to NetApp for Data ONTAP PowerShell ToolKit

PowerShell TeamJune 15, 2010Jun 15, 201006/15/10

Kudos to NetApp for releasing the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit last week at TechEd.
I was monitoring the twitter feeds last week and saw a flurry of activity talking about NetApp’s broad adoption of PowerShell and release of the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit surfacing all of their management functionality through cmdlets.

Export and Import PowerShell ISE Opened Files

PowerShell TeamJune 4, 2010Jun 4, 201006/4/10

Unlike other tools, PowerShell ISE doesn’t have project files. Project files are a good way to set your environment up with a well known state.
Thanks to the ISE Object Model, it is possible to add some project functionality.
The script below has two main functions “Export-ISEState”

Save All PowerShell ISE files

PowerShell TeamJune 4, 2010Jun 4, 201006/4/10

PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files.
On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials like this one and many more.

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