April, 2009

I installed Win7 RC build yesterday and tried to enable PS Remoting. I launched PowerShell elevated, ran Enable-PsRemoting cmdlet but it gave an “access denied” error message PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-PSRemoting -force WinRM already...

Slides and demos from the Monday introductory talk at MMS 2009. PowerShell has been getting a lot of attention at MMS 2009. The community around PowerShell is also being noticed by folks and was even "singled-out" at the Keynote on Monday by Bob Kelly...

Slides and demos from the Wednesday talk at MMS 2009. Momentum around PowerShell has been great here. Lots and lots of products are showcasing the automation through PowerShell. -Hemant Mahawar [MSFT] Program Manager

Attached are the slides and demos that I used today during my MMS talk. MMS is a great conference. It provides the opportunity to meet and talk to super smart people working on similar problems and learn from their scars. Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover ...

One of the systems administration hurdles of the post-Vista world is figuring out how to make a script run as an administrator. In PowerShell V2, using the Start-Process cmdlet, this is a one liner that will get the job done: Start-Process "$psHome...

With the recent changes in v2 to increase the visibility of the cmdlet design guidelines , we want to make sure we have a solid set of verbs on the approved verb list before we ship v2. We've already talked with a number of partners and customers and...

Jeffry Snover and many other have used Start-Demo in powershell.exe http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-powershell.aspx Continuing the tradition, we now have ISEDemo.psm1 To use it, start ISE and...

I just got a ping on our internal discussion list about how to get at the Performance counters in PowerShell.  In V2, we've got some nifty cmdlets to help read performance counters. Here are a few of quick one liners to get you started: # List all...

ISE has an F1 help feature, where if you press F1 when your caret is over a cmdlet name, context sensitive help opens. Shay Levy has a nice post on F1 help in the ISE here http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/01/31/using-help...

If you’re a PowerShell fan, and in the Seattle area, then you should know that Andy Schneider (of Get-PowerShell.com ) will be hosting a Script Club event at the Avanade offices. Script Club is a great way to learn PowerShell.  Ideally, you bring...

Here is a collection of differences between the PowerShell_ise.exe and PowerShell.exe, as well as workarounds and suggestion if you need them (assuming we have them :)) Limited support for interactive console apps, try cmd.exe, then try cmd.exe...

Microsoft is an awesome place to work on languages! Lang.Net is a great language conference that Microsoft holds every year.  We bring in people from all around the industry that are passionate about languages and then race through a set of topics...

Summary In PowerShell v1, we published a set of cmdlet design guidelines that included direction on how to properly name cmdlets. Throughout the v2 cycle, we've seen an increase in cmdlet authors deviating from the standards in unexpected ways. Our...

The features discussed in this blog post depend on PowerShell CTP3 release. Details about PowerShell CTP3 can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/12/23/early-christmas-present-from-powershell-team-community-technology-preview-3-ctp3...

The people over on WMI, WinRM, and BITS have started up a blog to share their systems management expertise with the world.  Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/ Here are some fun posts to get you started: Accessing WMI Data via WinRM Let’s Troubleshoot...

I recently read an email where someone was asking how they could check in their function if a value had been provided to one of the parameters. Consider for example, 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 function foo { param ( $x ) #If...

The Network Location feature was introduced in Windows Vista. It provides an easy way to customize your firewall settings based on whether you trust or don’t trust the computers around you. There are three Network Location types - Private, Public and...

There are many ways to set a variable's value. I just learnt one more yesterday. If you have others, please add comments # Simple # $ gets the variable, and = will assign it $a = 1 # With Variable Scope # The prepend is the scope, and could be...