June 2012

Snippets in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0

PowerShell Team June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12

This blog post applies to the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The ISE is also fully supported and available when Server 2012 is deployed using the Minimal Server Interface. To start ISE, type ise in a PowerShell console and press Enter Snippets provide a ...

Basic installation guide for Windows PowerShell Web Access

PowerShell Team June 26, 2012 Jun 26, 2012 06/26/12

Windows PowerShell Web Access is a new feature in Windows Server 2012. It is an IIS application that provides a Windows PowerShell console in a web browser. The IIS application acts as a gateway between the web browser and the machines that you can connect to in your environment. These machines should have Windows PowerShell remoting enabled. ...

Improving the FileSystem Provider through Community feedback

PowerShell Team June 21, 2012 Jun 21, 2012 06/21/12

One of the things we love about the Windows PowerShell community is that folks are not shy. It turns out that having a vocal community is a great way to build and evangelize a product like ours. Of course, the Unix guys had this all figured out a long time ago. Positive comments are good and all, but it’s difficult to really improve ...

Running show-command to discover cmdlets

PowerShell Team June 20, 2012 Jun 20, 2012 06/20/12

This blog post applies to the Windows PowerShell Version 3.0. Problem: How can I find out what cmdlets are available for a given task? Finding cmdlets in the traditional way If you know the basics of get-command, feel free to skip this section. If you are searching for a cmdlet to add a printer, you could star with ...

High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 2)

PowerShell Team June 19, 2012 Jun 19, 2012 06/19/12

This is the second part of our post on the high level architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow. Part 1 of this blog post provided an overview of the architecture and its various components. This post will go into more detail on the various subcomponents and provide some insight into the internals of Windows PowerShell Workflow. The ...

High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 1)

PowerShell Team June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12

1 Summary In March we introduced Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSWF), which explained why we integrated workflows with PowerShell, and what were our major investment areas for our first release. In a recent post, Jeffrey Snover summarizes this decision: “We integrated the Windows Workflow Foundation engine into PowerShell to ...

New V3 Language Features

PowerShell Team June 13, 2012 Jun 13, 2012 06/13/12

We’ve already discussed the biggest new PowerShell language feature – workflows – in a previous post. In this post, I’m going to describe a number of small changes we’ve made to the language. Most of the changes described here don’t introduce any new syntax, but I think you’ll agree that ...

Intellisense in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0

PowerShell Team June 12, 2012 Jun 12, 2012 06/12/12

Windows Management Framework 3.0 RC is Available for Download

PowerShell Team June 1, 2012 Jun 1, 2012 06/1/12

Yesterday we published an RC version of the Windows Management Framework 3.0. Windows Management Framework 3.0 RC makes some updated management functionality available to earlier versions of Windows. Windows Management Framework 3.0 RC can be installed on the following Operating Systems: Windows Management Framework 3.0...

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