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PowerShell announcement/demo available on the Web

May 2, 2006 May 2, 2006 05/2/06
PowerShell Team
You can now view Bob Muglia's MMS keynote address on the Web at:  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/material.mspx .  Starting around minut 29:00, he makes the PowerShell announcement and brings superstar Vivek Sharma on stage to demo Exchange 2007 and PowerShell.  This is a great demo so if you haven't ...

em dash, en dash, dash, dash, dash…

May 2, 2006 May 2, 2006 05/2/06
PowerShell Team
Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code in the interpreter that takes each of the possible characters and maps it into the ...

Chewy WMI example

May 1, 2006 May 1, 2006 05/1/06
PowerShell Team
MOW has done it again with an excellent example of a PowerShell script which does some chewy WMI processing and takes advantage of the PowerShell capabilities.   http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/05/powershell-export-shares-and-security.html Quite a few of the current WMI examples are really trivial VBScripts using PowerShell ...

How PowerShell Formatting and Outputting REALLY works

April 29, 2006 Apr 29, 2006 04/29/06
PowerShell Team
<WIZARD WARNING> Dreeschkind posted a question in the Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting newsgroup about how PowerShell formatting worked with Select.  He saw some behavior that he thought was a bug.  Here is what he saw: PoSh C:\>gps | sort starttime | select name,starttimeSort-Object : Exception getting "StartTime...

Use of Wildcards in PowerShell Formating

April 29, 2006 Apr 29, 2006 04/29/06
PowerShell Team
MMS in San Diego was a great conference!  I met lots of customers that asked lots of great questions.  I was demonstrating PowerShell's WMI support when a customer asked about controlling the output.  The problem was that PowerShell was showing all the WMI System properties as well as the Object properties and that this wasn't ...

PowerShell interview on Tom's Hardware

April 28, 2006 Apr 28, 2006 04/28/06
PowerShell Team
Check out the interview that Scott Ottaway and I did with Scott Fulton of Tom's Hardware:  http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/25/powershell_windows_command_line_to_ship_q4/ Tom's has consistently been a source of good information about this project - going beyond the cut-n-copy herd to ask interesting questions and forming their own opinion.&...

Bruce Payette is writing a book: PowerShell in Action

April 28, 2006 Apr 28, 2006 04/28/06
PowerShell Team
Superstar Bruce Payette is writing a book focused on the whats and whys of the language called PowerShell in Action.  Bruce is the dev lead on the language and is a walking encyclopedia of computer languages.  I have the honor of being a technical reviewer of the book and it has me jumping out of my chair with excitement (seriously, ...

IDE for PowerShell and a new book

April 28, 2006 Apr 28, 2006 04/28/06
PowerShell Team
PowerShell is a great interactive shell and a great scripting language.  That said, the feedback from the scripting community has been very clear: they want/need a PowerShell Scripting IDE.  As such, I was very happy to finally have something to say about this at my MMS talks this week.  I was able to show an Alpha version...

The new TabExpansion feature…

April 26, 2006 Apr 26, 2006 04/26/06
PowerShell Team
One of the nicest new features in the latest drop of Windows PowerShell is enhanced tab-completion. We now tab-complete properties on variables and parameters on cmdlets in addition to the old filename completion. But that's not the interesting part. The cool bit is that it's done through a user-definable function. In the same way that you can...

Exposing the Power of .NET in a Admin-friendly way

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
One of our primary goals for Monad was to:  "Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way".  The challenges of systems administration are large and growing at the same time organizations are under ever more pressure to reduce costs and do more with less.  That was true 10 years ago, it is true now, it will be true 10 years...