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William Vambenepe has a great blog entry Native "SSH" on Windows via WS-Management that is well worth a read.  I know that we've been busting our butts documenting our protocols but I hadn't realized that we actually were posting them where people could get them.  Apparently that is the case.  William found them and put 2 & 2 tog...

PowerShell FAQ : Where I can find useful trainings to learn Poweshell? Answer: Thanks to PowerShell MVPs, we have this very useful page http://www.powershellcommunity.org/LearningResources.aspx And this online videos series from Don Jones is very good as well. http://www.idera.com/Promo/Practical-PowerShell/  Thanks Osama Sajid, Program Manage...

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett has just published the 0.2 version of PowerBoots on CodePlex.  PowerBoots is a library which allows you to write WPF GUIs in PowerShell.  He has a great tutorial HERE that you should definitely check out.  In fact, you should check it out even if you aren't interest in GUIs, it is a great example of the amazing ...

Someone as asking about Traps vs Try/Catch and Jason Shirk (PowerShell developer) gave a nice concise and precise answer that I thought I would share with you: Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:...

The 2009 Summer Scripting Games have officially begun. For the last few days the Scripting Guys have been revealing the events one day at a time. For more information on the events, you can refer to this post from ScriptingGuys. This year’s scripting games are partnered with the Microsoft PowerShell MVP’s at PoshCode.org. The new PoshCode allows yo...

Have you ever had problems connecting to a network and gotten one of those dialog boxes that offers to repair it?  Mostly the networking just works but every now again one of the 10,000 moving parts required to make networking function gets misaligned and I get this dialog box.  I always try and it has never worked for me.  This is ...

  Windows Server Site Visits in July 09 (Open to US and Canada participants only)   The Windows Server User Research team wants to conduct site visits to learn from people who are involved in any and all aspects of managing servers! We’re hitting the road in July to understand what needs to be improved in our server management software. I...

In part 1 of “Event logs in Powershell” we talked about differences between Get-EventLog and Get-WinEvent. In this second part we will dig deeper into Get-WinEvent.   Starting in Windows Vista, the Windows Event Log was updated to provide a more powerful event model which allows for events to be easily categorized into logs and for event...

  Scripting Games start on June 15th and the excitement is building up. Details about the events in the game are emerging. Beginner and Advanced 100 meter Dash Beginner and Advanced Long jump Scripts can be submitted/viewed at http://scriptinggames.poshcode.org/ . There is a TechNet Forum in case you have a question or want...

Scripting Guys have posted more details about the 2009 scripting games, read it here.  Stay tuned to their blog and Twitter for updates Thanks Osama Sajid