September, 2009

During the development of any product, the vision for the upcoming release is driven by the desire to help as many customers in the most effective way possible. One of the interesting aspects of a release is balancing the effort you spend on different...

We like to say that PowerShell uses Verb-Noun naming.  If we were accurate, we would say that PowerShell uses Verb- Prefix Noun naming.  For instance: Get-WinEvent .  WIN is a prefix for Windows.  Every now and again people look at...

Per Østergaard has a great blog entry with all the steps for enabling this HERE .  You’ll want to bookmark this one.  :-)   Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:   ...

Most of us are familiar with the traditional use of Select –ExpandProperty <propertyname>.  This takes a the value of an incoming object, enumerates its values and outputs each of those values as a single record on the output stream after adding...

One of the things I want us to consider doing in the future is to leverage our Universal Code Execution infrastructure to execute any kind of code. For example, imagine that I have some script foo.vbs, I’d like to do the following: PS>  Invoke...

PowerShell MVP Jaykul gave a presentation to the NY PowerShell user group and was kind enough to post the text of his slides HERE .  One of the problems I have in talking about V2 is that there is SO much good stuff that I often get the levelling...

Someone just tweeted a link to Scott Hanselman’s 2007 blog (an oldie but goodie) about how he used PowerShell to analyze the WebLog data from his podcasts.  He provides a beautiful example of I like to call the “Admin Development model”.  The...

Good things come to those who wait. Please download these bits and let us know if you have any problems with them. https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads Just to be clear, this download contains the latest version of both PowerShell...

We have made changes to PowerShell connect site last month with the goal of making it easier for users to submit and share feedback. We also changed the page layout to make it more user friendly. Take a look at our new site https://connect.microsoft...

After WMF (Windows Management Framework ), i.e., the combined download package of Powershell, WsMan and BITS, for Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released to the Web on Aug. 13th , we can feel the high expectation for the final WMF releases from our...

PowerGUI has a cool way to get you started with PowerShell 2.0 features.. 'Code Snippets' . Take a at this video to know more. http://poshoholic.com/2009/08/28/learn-powershell-v2-features-using-powershell-code-snippets/ Thanks Osama Sajid, Program...

Tonight is the second meeting of Script Club in Seattle at Avanade. If you're in the area tonight between 7:15 and 8:30, feel free to stop by to get help learning or using PowerShell. Tonight's meeting is at: Avanade, 818 Stewart St, Seattle, WA at...