We’re proud to announce the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive conference! This event will take place at TEC 2011 in Las Vegas, April 18-19. PowerShell Deep Dive is meant to provide a deep technical and strategic engagement within the PowerShell Community.  Attendees will interact one-on-one with presenters, team members and other key me...

The great folks that provide documentation and guidance for Windows Server are looking for your feedback! First off, there’s a survey: http://vp-nri.com/take?i=162411&h=u7DzLZkqQEbm6e5zylI38A – primarily about PowerShell. This should take about ten minutes, and will help us better understand the issues you face every day. Whether you are into ...

The PowerShell community lost a great member last night. Carrying out one of his final wishes, his family posted this on Twitter last night: We are sad to tell you, Andy "the most passionate Powersheller" passed away on 12th Jan 2011, and wanted us to say goodbye to you all. Andy https://twitter.com/AndyTearle/status/254147838261...

My command seems to behave differently depending on how many items were returned. This is something that the PowerShell Team hears from the community or our internal partners every couple of weeks. This blog post will explain when a Windows PowerShell command returns different types and offer some reasons for why it is done this way. In general,...

No, I’m not talking about our newest rap single. I’m talking about PowerShell’s most hidden gem. The one you can show to most members of even the PowerShell team, and have them gasp – “oh, that’s cool! I gotta remember that!” And it’s not even for lack of documentation! Here are the first few lines of Get-Help about_automatic_variables: PS>...

One of the best ways to learn a technology or take your understanding to the next level is to challenge yourself by entering a contest.   Well, here is your opportunity.  The Quest Software PowerGUI Challenge contest is currently ongoing and finishes on November 15th, 2010.  This contest gives you an opportunity to win a gift ce...

While attending JAOO, I had the great pleasure to meet and talk with Martin Fowler and Neil Ford on the topic of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs).  Channel 9 videotaped that discussion and you can watch it HERE. I'm quite passionate about DSLs - both FOR them and AGAINST them.  The details matter! I have this concept called, "Beer Cardi...

The Buddha once said that, “A jug fills drop by drop”.  In this case, the jug is universal PowerShell cmdlet coverage which is a really large jug!  We’ve never been confused on this point – I’ve often referred to it as the “30 year hole” that we needed to dig ourselves out of.  When PowerShel...

We often get the question of what to do about a cmdlet that has lots of parameters.  Do you break it up into multiple commands or just have a single cmdlet with lots of parameters.  Here is the way I think about it: If you have to enter 100 things to get a job done, it doesn’t really matter whether you enter those 100 things via 1 cmdlet...

Intel has released version 1.0 of their Intel Core vPro PowerShell Module.  This set of cmdlets do Out-of-Band hardware management of devices that are equipped with the vPro chip.  What that means is that you can do a certain amount of management on devices that don’t have an OS or whose OS is hung (if you are using one of our competitor’s OSes .. ...