The PowerShell team is excited to announce that starting today we are licensing the language specification for Windows PowerShell 2.0 under the Microsoft Community Promise. This means that now anyone can implement PowerShell on any platform they want to.  We know some of our most passionate customers sometimes work on platforms that can’...

Introduction Windows Events can be extremely useful for debugging. Administrators often use events to diagnose problems in complex systems. However, Event Viewer is time-consuming and difficult to automate. Luckily, there is a simple way to fully automate the process. The FilterXml Parameter The FilterXml parameter allows you use a simple XML d...

A couple of months ago I had asked the PowerShell MVPs for suggestions on blog topics. Karl Prosser, one of our awesome MVPs, brought up the topic of scaling and queuing background jobs. The scenario is familiar: You have a file containing a bunch of input that you want to process and you don’t want to overburden your computer by starting up ...

There are still a few seats open for the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive Conference and tomorrow is the last day of cheap registration! In case you haven’t already been doing it, now would be a good time to start camping out in your boss’ office begging him/her for the money and time off. Register today or tomorrow for only $850. The pr...

  Seats are filling up for the PowerShell Deep Dive and cheap registration is almost over. Remember: Registration during the month of March is only $850, but quickly jumps to the full conference price of $1825 on April 1. To register, follow this link to create your profile and use code “ATGNJR6E”. Just a few more names of people t...

Videos from the PowerShell team and Don Jones… Jeffrey Snover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6SrEpSfVs Don Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev3mexiAw1k Dan Harman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbmXYd8VRM Hemant Mahawar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bpOFicYMOg Travis Jones [MSFT] Windows PowerShell PM Microsoft Corporation

  We received a lot of session proposals for the PowerShell Deep Dive conference. Thank you to everyone who sent one or more in. I wanted to share the abstracts for a handful of the sessions that have already been selected. Stay tuned, details on more sessions will be available soon… Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows...

Hi, I have updated the Cmdlet Help Editor tool to support Modules. The V1.0 version of this tool only supported PsSnapins. The original post can be found here  Cmdlet Help Editor enables you to create help topics for Windows PowerShell cmdlets in the XML format that Windows PowerShell supports. Help text created in Cmdlet Help Edito...

April 18-19 2011 – Las Vegas We’re very excited with the positive reaction we’ve seen towards the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive! There’ll be lots of talented & smart people hanging out with us for a couple days. To mention just a few: There are only a few days left to get the cheapest registration rate of $700....

The Lync PowerShell Blog recently posted a fairly chewy piece that described how to enable users in bulk when given an XLS file as input. Jason Helmick responded, saying: Instead of your incredible code that no admin would even begin to understand or even be able to write, let’s do the same thing, in one line. (Note: This is an educated PowerS...