I’m always impressed by the level of creativity of the people in the PowerShell community. I remember having my socks knocked off the first time I saw what SoftwareFX did with PowerGadgets. I could not believe the things that they were doing. In fact I couldn’t even figure out how they were doing some of them! Well the sup...
Instead of piping unstructured text, Windows PowerShell pipes objects between commands in a pipeline. As a consequence PowerShell remoting also deals with objects when passing data to and from remote sessions. This post explains how remote objects are serialized and which types of objects can be sent with full fidelity. You might ...
“To ship is the choose.” That is the sad reality behind a number of the things that we regretted about V1. When we first started the project (a LONG time ago) we knew that we wanted to close the semantic gap between what admins thought and what they had to type. Imagine that you wanted to find all the processes that had greater th...
“To ship is the choose.” That is the sad reality behind a number of the things that we regretted about V1. When we first started the project (a LONG time ago) we knew that we wanted to close the semantic gap between what admins thought and what they had to type. Imagine that you wanted to find all the processes that had greater th...
Introduction Recently, we came across an interesting bug that had been around for awhile (http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=315875). If you do the following: Start-Transcript ipconfig Stop-Transcript If you look at the transcript, you’ll see that the output of ipconfig was not captured. Why is t...
A year ago I broke my habit and made a set of News Years resolutions and then published them on the team blog HERE. Lee Holmes suggested I go back and review how I did on those. Glug! Let’s give it a go: ...
