PowerShell V2.0 Book Available in Italian

PowerShell Team June 26, 2010 Jun 26, 2010 06/26/10

Efran Cobisi has published a PowerShell V2 book in Italian.  The title is “Windows PowerShell 2.0 – Guida completa” and is a 448 pages long.  Efran describes it as “a collection of theory, insides and hints on the scripting environment, the programming language and the most used cmdlets. It’s targeted to both developers and...

Using New-WebServiceProxy to get, modify, and add items to a list in SharePoint 2007

PowerShell Team June 24, 2010 Jun 24, 2010 06/24/10

The motivation Let’s say that you want to retrieve and modify a list in a SharePoint site, but you don’t have access to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. One possible solution is to try to search online or ask someone to let you copy the dll. If you are able to get a hold of it, you will quickly realize that the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll has some ...

Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs

PowerShell Team June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10

[This isn't only a PowerShell topic, but I've been asked a few times, so I thought I post the answer here.] If you've visited TechNet or MSDN lately, you'll notice that there are new view options for the pages. TechNet has a new ScriptFree view, in addition to the familiar Classic view. MSDN has two new views, ScriptFree and Lightweight. When ...

PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio

PowerShell Team June 21, 2010 Jun 21, 2010 06/21/10

Quest has released a beta of PowerGUI Visual Studio (aka PowerGUI VSX).  Check out Kirk Munro’s blog entry HERE for more details.  Check out this screenshot:   I can’t wait to install it and kick the tires! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http...

Kudos to NetApp for Data ONTAP PowerShell ToolKit

PowerShell Team June 15, 2010 Jun 15, 2010 06/15/10

Kudos to NetApp for releasing the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit last week at TechEd. I was monitoring the twitter feeds last week and saw a flurry of activity talking about NetApp’s broad adoption of PowerShell and release of the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit surfacing all of their management functionality through cmdlets. I decided to ...

Export and Import PowerShell ISE Opened Files

PowerShell Team June 4, 2010 Jun 4, 2010 06/4/10

Unlike other tools, PowerShell ISE doesn’t have project files. Project files are a good way to set your environment up with a well known state. Thanks to the ISE Object Model, it is possible to add some project functionality. The script below has two main functions “Export-ISEState” and “Import-ISEState”. They can...