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Installing PowerShell on Vista/"Longhorn" Server

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07

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1.       I am new to PowerShell and would like to install it on my Vista machine. The following page  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx gives you links to various PowerShell downloads. Choose the one that best matches your operating system, platform ...

Why Can’t I Pipe Format-Table to Export-Csv (and get something useful)?

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07

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Ken's PowerShell blog has an entry Remote Services and PowerShell where he wrote a function to get services from a remote machine using WMI. He formatted the data using FT (format-table) and then went on to export the data to CSV. He pointed out that the following would NOT work rget-service remotemachinename netlogon | ft -autosize name,...

Why isn’t “New-Object” aliased to “New”

February 23, 2007 Feb 23, 2007 02/23/07

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Alistair Young made a Note to Self : In a standard PowerShell installation, "new" is not an alias for "new-object". You added that. You should therefore know better that to make this kind of dumbass mistake. We talked about making "New" an alias to "New-Object" but decided against it in the end because it leaves open the door for us to provide...

PowerShell Cheat Sheet Redux – the PDF version

January 24, 2007 Jan 24, 2007 01/24/07

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Attached is a PDF version of Ben Pearce's PowerShell Cheat Sheet.  In the past I've encouraged everyone to speak up and complain if we were messing up or not giving you what you needed.  I'm pleased to see that you have taken this to heart (seriously).   Ben and every other Microsoft employee has been using ...

PowerShell Cheat Sheet

January 24, 2007 Jan 24, 2007 01/24/07

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Ben Pearce was gracious enough to put together a good looking PowerShell Cheat Sheet which I've included as an attachment to this blog post.  By definition, a cheat sheet is incomplete so this contains the things that Ben has found to be the most import.   I think you'll find it useful. Cheers! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]...

Windows PowerShell Exit Codes

October 14, 2006 Oct 14, 2006 10/14/06

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Windows PowerShell Exit Codes   PSMDTAG:FAQ: How can my script control the PowerShell exit code? Answers: 1.      A normal termination will set the exitcode to 0 2.      An uncaught THROW will set the exitcode to 1 3.      The EXIT statement will stop the ...