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Show-SnapinCmdlet
Shay Levy has a review of the latest/greatest IIS PowerShell provider CTP2 HERE. In that review, he shows how you can use Get-Command to show all the cmdlets in a snapin. That works great but produces a linear list of cmdlets. I think the following produces a easier way to digest the information: function Show-SnapinCmdlet ($snapin, $column=6){ Get-Command -PSSnapin $snapin | sort Noun,Verb | Format-Wide -GroupBy Noun -Property Verb -Column $Column } Give it a try and see if you like it. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team b...
IIS7 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 2
IIS team is happy to announce release of IIS7 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 2 Here is a quick overview: What’s new with TP2? · IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding) · Tech Preview 2 ships with 40 new cmdlets. All of these cmdlets are for day-to-day IIS tasks like creating web-sites, web-applications, enabled request tracing, adding a handler or a module. The complete list is at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/492/using-th...
Congratulations to the PowerGUI Team
Kirk Munro blog entry HERE says that PowerGUI has just it the 100,000 download milestone. This comes on the heels of them winning the Breakthrough Product Award at TechEd. These guys are on a roll! Congratulations to the entire team! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
PowerPack Challenge '08
Quest is holding a PowerGUI scripting contest starting tomorrow July 1. If you are not familar with PowerGUI, it is a PowerShell scripting and execution GUI. If you aren't already a PowerGUI user, here is a great opportunity to kick the tires. If you are already a PowerGUI user, here is an opportunity to turn that skill into prizes (winners recieve $250 and $500 gift certificates to Amazon.com). You can get more information about the contest HERE. Full Disclosure: I am one of the judges. Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows ...
New AD Cmdlets from Quest
Rod Trent from MyITForum.com has the details HERE Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
#7 Best all time Microsoft Product
Check out what EWeek has declared to be the #7 Best Microsoft Product: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-Best-and-Worst-Microsoft-Products/8/ And that is Version 1 - wait until they see Version 2! SNOOPY DANCE! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
SQL Use of MiniShells
The SQL team has been receiving a lot of bashing lately over some of the decisions they made integrating PowerShell into SQL 2008. I thought I would take a couple minutes to clarify a few things, eat some sin and talk about a constructive engagement model between the community and the feature teams implementing PowerShell cmdlets. First let me declare my long standing admiration for the SQL team. Those superstars have consistently been one of the teams that really GOT what it meant to release software for production environments. They have a great quality culture and process and they have top-sh...
Getting Credentials From The Command Line
When you use the Get-Credential cmdlet, you get a GUI dialog box to enter the credentials. This is the "Common Criteria Certified" way of handling credentials. It is also a pain in the butt at times. If you are an admin, you can alter this and request credentials via the command line as follows: PS> $key = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds"PS> Set-ItemProperty $key ConsolePrompting TruePS> Get-Credential cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1Supply values for the following parameters:CredentialUser: ntdev\jsnoverPassword for user ntdev\jsnover: **...
Group Policy Health Cmdlet
SDMSoftware has just released a Group Policy Health Cmdlet HERE. They have a great, high-quality, 9 minute DEMO VIDEO showing what the cmdlet does and how to work it. Nice stuff. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx