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New-Workflow –MakeItEasy: Authoring Workflows using PowerShell Extended Syntax

July 21, 2012 Jul 21, 2012 07/21/12
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Some time back, in his blog post, Jeffrey Snover introduced one of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature – Windows PowerShell Workflow. In that post, you saw a glimpse of how to author workflows using PowerShell syntax. This post dives into more details of authoring workflows using PowerShell syntax and various extensions to it. Why we ...

Cmdlet Help Editor is now released on CodePlex

September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11
PowerShell Team
I published the source code for the Cmdlet Help Editor on CodePlex here: http://cmdlethelpeditor.codeplex.com/ . Please feel free to contribute. for more information on the Cmdlet Help Editor, please check out the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/09/01/new-and-improved-cmdlet-help-editor-tool.aspx  ...

Howto: Invoking cmdlets from within a cmdlet…

September 26, 2007 Sep 26, 2007 09/26/07
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A fairly common question cmdlet developers have is "How do I invoke a cmdlet from within a cmdlet". This usually comes up when converting a script or function into a compiled cmdlet. Marco Shaw is writing a nice series of blog posts covering this topic using the PowerGadgets  cmdlets as examples. Check it out at:  http://...

Active Directory Cmdlets

April 12, 2007 Apr 12, 2007 04/12/07
PowerShell Team
More great cmdlets from our partners. Quest Software, known for its ActiveRoles Server and PowerGUI, is offering its new Active Directory cmdlets to the community free of charge.   To get them, click: PowerShell Cmdlets for Active Directory.   The ZIP file includes a Setup.exe executable that registers the PsSnapin and adds it ...

Monitor the Event Log

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
Administrators often want to monitor the event logs and look for specific error conditions.  The most capable way to do this, of course, is to use a dedicated monitoring application such as Microsoft Operations Manager, or get down-and-dirty with the Win32 API NotifyChangeEventLog.  However, Monad can be used for simple applications...

Base64 Encode/Decode a string

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
Today I came across http://scripts.readify.net/  . This sight is focused on Monad and MSH and is starting a collection of scripts at: http://scripts.readify.net/Scripts.aspx .  You should visit their site and let them know what type of scripts would be useful to you.  I particularly liked their entry on how to Base64 ...

Finding out what determines which properties are displayed

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
MoW, a Monad newsgroup regular, asked why only the Caption, Name and PeakUsage properties were displayed from the command “get-WMIObject Win32_PageFileUsage” while the output object had a lot more properties. I think it is worth it to explain in details how to find out which properties are displayed.First, I would look at which view ...

Sunday morning drive with my hair on fire: Types/Community/Synthetic types/Democracy/Cool XML tricks

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
PowerShell Team
Exploring types is a pain! Monad provides Get-Member which makes it pretty nice to explore an OBJECT but if you want to explore that object's type, you have to use the capabilities of the System.RuntimeType class. Let me make that distinction a little clearer.  Imagine that I've got some xml:$x=[XML]"<a><b>TEST</b><a&...