A lot of people have asked whegther Windows PowerShell can do UNIX job handling.  The paraphrase an old management salesperson joke, "YES - YOU can do UNIX job handling with Windows PowerShell" (which means you have to do it yourself).  Jim Truher shows you how in his latest blog entry: http://jtruher.spaces.live.com/Perso...

MOW has done it again.  Checkout his blog entry which shows how to leverage Windows PowerShell to automate determining which of the Dell laptops in your enterprise need to have their batteries replaced. http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/08/powershell-has-my-dell-dangerous.html Totally cool.  Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/Asp...

A summary of the Namespaces PowerShell defines and uses.   System.Management.Automation System.Management.Automation serves as the root namespace for PowerShell.  The namespace contains the types a developer would use to implement a Cmdlet.   Sub-namespaces are defined for specific sections of the API that are used by specific types ...

Josh Maher has an exchange oriented blog at http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/ .  He is running a contest to for the best Exchange 2007 script ( http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/powershell-scripting-for-exchange-2007/ ) and I offered to donate the prize of a copy of Bruce Payette's book PowerShell in Action ( http://www.ma...

We are finishing up work on Windows PowerShell RC2.  While I can't announce an availability date at this point, I know that a lot of you are eager to see what is coming.  I think you'll be pleased.  Here are our draft release notes for RC2.  Note that this documents the major changes and not the bugfixes.   Jeffrey Snover ...

I was investigating a localization test failure today and ran into the following error message:   'actual error is 慌爠捡湩⁥敤氠捥整牵긠䗿尺꿿渠攧楸瑳⁥慰⁳畯渠攧瑳瀠獡甠潤獳敩⹲਍, expected '   Since it was failing in the French locale, getting what appeared to be a Chinese error message didn’t make a lot of sense. A coworker confirmed that it was garbage. My next gue...

Superstar MOW is at it again with his 7th! blog on using Windows PowerShell and Active Directory.  Check it out at: http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/08/powershell-and-active-directory-part-7.html Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/Aspen ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVi...

Don Jones, of ScriptingAnswers.com, is holding two two-day classes on Windows administrative scripting in Chicago and Seattle this September. While the first day of each class will focus on advanced VBScript techniques, the second day will be entirely devoted to Windows PowerShell. No prior PowerShell experience is necessary—Don plans to start from...

Updated Aug. 5th, 2006: The Microsoft security folks have finished their full technical analysis of the worm. You can read their analysis in the Malicious Software Encyclopedia.   A “PowerShell Worm” has recently been reported by several antivirus companies and some news organizations. There has been some confusion and concern around...

Joel Spolsky of Joel-On-Software fame, just posted a blog, "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html In this article, he drives home the point that when it comes to code: Maintainability, Readability, Abstraction == Good!  He then points out how languages can help or hinder this and goes on to...