Showing archive results for October 2012

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using Windows PowerShell 3.0 to configure a virtual machine on his laptop. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things I really appreciate is weekends. Most of the time, I do not even open my email. Freedom from email is something I dream about. Recently, my cell phone w...

Summary: Learn how to find specific types of commands from a Windows PowerShell module.  How can you list only cmdlets from a module that make new stuff?  Use the Get-Command cmdlet with the Module parameter, and specify the New verb (gcm is an alias for Get-Command): gcm -Module hyper* -V...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to easily create a new virtual machine on a computer running Windows 8. Playing around with the Hyper-V module Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is autumn in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States—as autumn as we get in the Deep South. The S...

Summary: Use the Category parameter to assist in searching Help files in Windows PowerShell.  How can you search the about* Help files in Windows PowerShell for a specific topic?  Specify HelpFile for the Category parameter, and use a wild card for the value of the Name parameter. The following exam...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about the simplified Foreach syntax in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and provides guidance on when to use which syntax. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I finally had a bit of time to get some stuff done that I had been needing to do, such as submitting my session proposals for the Windows Pow...