Steve Lee

Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell.
Here I will provide more details of areas we’ll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release.
When will I get it?!
Today, we’re releasing our first preview of PowerShell 7.

Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we’ve already begun work on the next iteration!
We’re calling the next release PowerShell 7, the reasons for which will be explained in this blog post.

If you were thinking about attending a PowerShell talk at LISA (Large Installation System Administration conference), the answer is NO. Someone suggested that the attendee’s of this conference would love a PowerShell talk so I submitted my Monad Manifesto as a draft with the thinking was that I would bring that paper up to date,

That got your attention didn’t it?
The guys over at PowerGadgets have introduced a PowerGadgets MVP Program. It sounds like it is modeled a bit after the Microsoft MVP program where if you are influential within the community, you get treated really nice (read free software).

Sebastien posted a cool simple script HERE which effectively does a reverse lookup on aliases. Here is the code:
function Get-AliasShortcut([string]$CommandName) {
ls Alias: | ?{ $_.Definition -eq $CommandName }
}
Set-Alias gas Get-AliasShortcut
Notice that he used –EQ. Whenever you find yourself using –EQ,

JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. It now provides full PowerShell support. What does that mean? They say that they support PowerShell in three ways:
JAMS-specific PowerShell host to tightly control scripts under JAMs.

JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. It now provides full PowerShell support. What does that mean? They say that they support PowerShell in three ways:
JAMS-specific PowerShell host to tightly control scripts under JAMs.

Did you realize that you can Join-Path can work on multiple items?
PSGet-Help Join-Path -parameter *path
-path
Specifies the main path (or paths) to which the child-path is appended.
Wildcards are permitted.
The value of Path determines which provider joins the paths and adds th
e path delimiters.

David Aiken is at it again. In his latest segment of the DFO show – Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 2, he converts the code he produced in Part 1 to use strong types by casting the PSObject.BaseObject. From there, he add the ability to select one the SERVICEs he displays and then to Stop it using the Stop-Service cmdlet.

I spend a lot of my time in the command line (surprised?). That said, I also spend a lot of time surfing the web. Here is a script that I wrote that lets me surf the web from PowerShell:
UrlTemplateMap = @{
“bs”