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Windows PowerShell Help – Live on TechNet
Updated Windows PowerShell Help topics are now live in the TechNet library at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526.aspx. We'll be updating weekly, so keep it bookmarked and check back frequently. If you misplace this easy-to-recall URL, you can find us anyway: 1. Go to TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com). 2. Click the Library tab. 3. In the TOC, click Windows PowerShell. And, of course: Function Get-LiveHelp { (new-object -com shell.application).Open("http://technet.mi...
out-gridview
One of the new feature areas for PowerShell V2 CTP is support for rich output. The out-gridview cmdlet allows you to send the output of any PowerShell command into a fully interactive grid window. This feature is available from standard PowerShell and Graphical PowerShell. Out-GridView can be very useful if the output of your command is long or you need to perform a deeper analysis on that data. Here is an example of how to use the out-gridview to display the running processes. Out-GridView also supports the following aliases grid and ogv After issuing the command, a new window ...
Installing Windows PowerShell V2 (CTP)
We released Windows PowerShell V2 (CTP) a while back. We have introduced remoting and Graphical PowerShell in the CTP and these place some additional set of dependencies on PowerShell installation. The earlier dependency on .Net 2.0 still holds good. 1. WS-Management v1.1 is required for PowerShell remoting as the remoting infrastructure uses it for connecting to remote computers 2. .Net 3.0 is required for using Graphical PowerShell This modifies the behavior of the installer a bit. 1. Any previous versio...
IBM Releases PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage WebSphere MQ
Dale Lane from IBM posted a blog entry HERE describing a set of PowerShell Cmdlets to manage WebSphere MQ. You can download the PDF documentation and bits from the IBM website HERE. The ZIP file contains a PDF called PowerShellCookBook which has a bunch of examples of how to use the cmdlets. Let me be quick to so that they did a very good job on their cmdlets in terms of using the naming guidelines. I can't tell you how thrilled I am at the great job they did. That said, I'm not at all surprised. A lot of people are quick to say how much PowerShell looked to Unix for inspiration.&...
Distributed PowerShell Available Today Via Specops Command
When I worked in the CTO office at Tivoli, I identified the fact that there were just a handful of design patterns for distributed applications and distributed management in particular. We then started a management framework project to support those design patterns which we would then build all our products on top of. Then one day I got this call from Microsoft... Anyway, with PowerShell V2, we are working to deliver one of those distributed management design patterns: Transient One to Many Command execution. (By "Transient", I mean that we issue the commands and get ...
RedMonk On System Center, Virtualization, IBM, and PowerShell
Michael Cote and James Governor of RedMonk have a good video on their view of the state of Microsoft as of IT Forum 2007 HERE. These guys are both smart and fun and their perspective is always enjoyable. I thought these guys were wicked smart before I saw this video but then around the 9:15 mark James says, "PowerShell ... is the most important technology Microsoft has ever introduced in system management. That is, to me, what makes it a serious player in systems management." In my book, they are now formally upgraded to geniuses. :-) The think I like about these guys so m...
Learning PowerShell
John Sheehan has blogged his experiences learning PowerShell over his Thanksgiving holiday. You can read about them HERE. I found it a fun read. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
New-HashTable
John Sheehan the architect for Microsoft Application Virtualization (aka SoftGrid) recently jumped on the PowerShell bandwagon and was nice enough to write up his experiences. At one point he wrote himself a process monitor which involved putting all the processes into a hashtable indexed by ProcessID. This is a fairly trivial piece of code to write but I always thought that we ought to provide it for people so I decided to blast one out and share it. This is the code for New-HashTable.ps1 # FILE: New-HashTable.ps1 # Author: Jeffrey Snover # Versi...
PowerShell Plus Beta Available
I just got mail from Tobias Weltner letting me know that they are making PowerShell Plus free for non-commercial use. If you have not checked this tool out - you should. PowerShell Plus is like what you'd get if the Console spent a year with a 24x7 IV drip of steriods. It is in beta now but is it appears to be in reasonable shape. Check out details HERE. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/t...