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PSMDTAG:FAQ: How can I pipeline data to a parameter which does not accept pipeline input?PSMDTAG:FAQ: What are ScriptBlock Parameters? One of the foundation concepts of Windows PowerShell is pipelining objects instead of text.  What happens is that when an upstream command generates an object, the PowerShell engine examines the data requiremen...

<Edited 7/2/2006 with tags and categories>PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I expand the width of the console?PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I use -noElements on GROUP? Consider the example: PS> gps |group company Count Name              ...

<Edited 7/2/2006 with tags and categories>PSMDTAG:FAQ: What is $ErrorView?PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I get error details? Have you tried out $ErrorView="CategoryView" yet?  Remember -  errors are just objects.  Given that they are objects, we render a subset of their properties to the console.  We provide 2 views: Normal an...

PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I display large numbers with commas?PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I use .NET formatting strings? As scripters, we often spend tons of times trying to get our data formated just the right way.  Often this is an error-prone, frustrating experience.  Windows PowerShell leverages .NET objects to make this task a ton simpler.  I...

<WIZARD WARNING>  ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter to a cmdlet was.  The example was OUT-FILE -ENCODING xxx Out current help doesn't te...

With the release of RC1 of PowerShell, we've closed down on doing much feature work and are primarily polishing the product. This means fixing bugs, cleaning up usability issues, and really making sure this is a quality product. For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft's milestone naming terminology, RC1 stands for Release Candidate 1. This means...

<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder:  when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN PROCESSPS> get-process |where {$_.handles -ge 900} |sort handles Handles  NPM(K)  &n...

Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code in the interpreter that takes each of the possible characters and maps it into the canonical repre...

One of the nicest new features in the latest drop of Windows PowerShell is enhanced tab-completion. We now tab-complete properties on variables and parameters on cmdlets in addition to the old filename completion. But that's not the interesting part. The cool bit is that it's done through a user-definable function. In the same way that you can rede...

Some applications launch themselves whenever you start your computer and load Windows.  In most cases, this is the desired behavior.  However in some instances, malicious programs such as spyware, Trojans, worms, viruses load in this manner and hijack your computer. It is important to stay vigilant and periodically monitor your startup...