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What's up with PSBASE, PSEXTENDED, PSADAPTED, and PSOBJECT?

November 24, 2006 Nov 24, 2006 11/24/06
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"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 ...

Turning the dial to 11 with Custom TypeConverters

October 19, 2006 Oct 19, 2006 10/19/06
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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 ...

Why do I sometimes get different types?

July 31, 2006 Jul 31, 2006 07/31/06
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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...

Flexible pipelining with ScriptBlock Parameters

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06
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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 ...

Invoking PowerShell with complex expressions using Scriptblocks

May 7, 2006 May 7, 2006 05/7/06
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<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) &...

Exposing the Power of .NET in a Admin-friendly way

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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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...

Finding out what determines which properties are displayed

April 25, 2006 Apr 25, 2006 04/25/06
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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 ...