Showing archive results for April 2013

Summary: Microsoft senior technical writer, Yuri Diogenes, and knowledge engineer, Tom Shinder, talk about using Windows PowerShell to protect a Windows Server 2012-based cloud infrastructure.  Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Guest bloggers Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes are back with Part 2 of their series about security. Thi...

Summary: The next steps Microsoft Script Explorer are revealed. For those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven't released additional updates since we published the release candidate (RC) in August 2012. Over the past few months, we have been talking with customers and partners and taking a h...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using named arguments in Windows PowerShell functions. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If I go to the trouble of writing a Windows PowerShell script, I generally do not use unnamed arguments (such as $args as I illustrated yesterday in Accepting Arguments for PowerShell Functions...

Summary: Easily find all the Windows PowerShell functions.  How can I find all Windows PowerShell functions easily?  Use the Get-Command cmdlet, and specify the CommandType function: Get-Command -CommandType function

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about the best practices surrounding accepting input for a Windows PowerShell function. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. April in the Carolina’s is a special time. In fact, it is my favorite time of the year here. This is because the weather is invariably mild. This week, it has b...