Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell function to truly mimic legacy commands. Hey, Scripting Guy! What happened to “pause” in Windows PowerShell? Am I simply not recognizing it? —KL Hello KL, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here. I’m again filling in for our good friend, Ed. He stepped away from his keyboard f...
Summary: Microsoft PFE, Jason Walker, talks about improving performance of Windows PowerShell by using runspaces. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Jason Walker is back with us today for the conclusion of his two-part weekend series. Be sure to read yesterday’s post before you read today’s: Weekend Scripter: Max Out PowerShel...
Summary: Microsoft PFE, Jason Walker, talks about how to maximize performance from Windows PowerShell in the enterprise. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Jason Walker is our guest blogger this weekend. Today is Part 1 of a 2 part series. Here’s Jason… I work in an environment with widely dispersed datacenters and I am often...
Summary: Leverage Windows PowerShell for some simple on-screen animation. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here. I’m filling in for our good friend, Ed Wilson. Ed got hungry today and asked me to make him some popcorn. So today we’ll use Windows PowerShell to make some—just some little bits for fun. In actual reality I’...
Summary: Use a hash table and an array to run prearranged actions. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney here. I’m filling in for our good friend, Ed again today. I think he’s busy playing some tunes with the Windows PowerShell piano we created last week. So continuing from last weekend’s silliness, I had the song “Popcorn&rd...
