"Brandon Shell" asked:> I have seen adding psbase to alot of things "fixes" problems... What is this > psbase (thingy) and why do I have to use it? > There are lots of different object & data technologies in the world, each with their own particulars. Most of us never care about those particulars, we want the data and...
If you are the sort of bloke that likes to turn the dial to 11, you should check out Abhishek's recent blog entry on Custom TypeConverters: http://abhishek225.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!13469C7B7CE6E911!191.entry Much of the power of Windows PowerShell comes from the type coercion capabilities of our ObjectFlow engine. This is what al...
PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why do I sometimes get different types or different behaviors? PSMDTAG:FAQ: When I pipe a heterogenous set of objects to an cmdlet that expects a homogenous stream - what happens and why? In our newgroup ( Microsoft.public.Windows.PowerShell ), Alex A asked these questions with the following example: cd c:\temp$( gci ; gci hkcu:\ ) | ...
PSMDTAG:FAQ: How can I pipeline data to a parameter which does not accept pipeline input?PSMDTAG:FAQ: What are ScriptBlock Parameters? One of the foundation concepts of Windows PowerShell is pipelining objects instead of text. What happens is that when an upstream command generates an object, the PowerShell engine examines the data requiremen...
<Edited 7/2/2006 with tags and categories>PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I expand the width of the console?PSMDTAG:FAQ: Why doesn't output expand when I use -noElements on GROUP? Consider the example: PS> gps |group company Count Name ...
<WIZARD WARNING> ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter to a cmdlet was. The example was OUT-FILE -ENCODING xxx Out current help doesn't te...
<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder: when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN PROCESSPS> get-process |where {$_.handles -ge 900} |sort handles Handles NPM(K) &n...
One of our primary goals for Monad was to: "Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way". The challenges of systems administration are large and growing at the same time organizations are under ever more pressure to reduce costs and do more with less. That was true 10 years ago, it is true now, it will be true 10 years from...
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 defined in one ...
