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The Basics of Windows PowerShell Workflow: When to Use It and Why

Summary: Guest blogger Jeff Wouters talks about the basics of Windows PowerShell 3.0 workflows: when to use it and why. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, The Scripting Wife and I are traveling on our way from Oslo, Norway, to Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where I will speak at the Dutch PowerShell User Group event tomorrow...

PowerTip: Receive Results from a Disconnected PowerShell Session

Summary: Learn how to receive results from a Windows PowerShell disconnected session. (image)  How can I receive results from a disconnected Windows PowerShell session in Windows PowerShell 3.0? (image)  Use the Receive-PSSession cmdlet, and specify the name, session name, or the instance ID of the disconnected session, as shown...

Use PowerShell to Configure the NIC on Windows Server 2012

Summary: Guest blogger and Microsoft MVP Jan Egil Ring talks about using Windows PowerShell 3.0 to automatically configure the NIC on Windows Server 2012. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Yesterday, The Scripting Wife and I traveled from Stockholm, Sweden, to Oslo, Norway, and had dinner with MVP Jan Egil Ring. Today, I ...

Stockholm to Oslo

Last night we had an absolutely awesome time in Stockholm. The Scripting Wife and I met Niklas Goude, Windows PowerShell MVP, and all around nice guy, at our hotel. By the way, Niklas is an Honorary Scripting Guy and has an awesome blog posting out today on using PowerShell Workflow to Ping computers in Parallel —it is a great ...