May, 2006

Fellow Scripters, We’ve heard that some of you think our PowerShell sample scripts on the TechNet Script Center stink. Do you have any idea how much that hurts? We slave over hot keyboards day in and day out trying to help you ungrateful scoundrels...

<WIZARD WARNING> ISVs and Tool vendors may find this important, Advanced users may find this interesting, Casual users may want to skip this. Someone asked me if there was a programmatic way to tell what the legal values for a string parameter...

A number of people have asked about the PowerShell grammar. Here is a draft write up (I've also included it as an attachement) that George Xie and Bruce Payette are working on. Grammar of PowerShell (formerly known as Monad) is separated into parsing...

How to file bugs for Windows PowerShell...

<WIZARD WARNING> First a reminder: when you are in PowerShell (formerly knows as Monad), you can run anything you want out-of-process using the construct: PowerShell {Scriptblock} The great example of this is PS> #RUN EVERYTHING IN...

I was delighted to discover that DesktopEngineer.Com is now offering Windows PowerShell training: http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 . This is the first (and therefore BEST :-) ) commercial training available for PowerShell (formally known as Monad). I...

After releasing RC1, internal testing discovered two issues that we feel warrant an update to our RC1: One issue affects the digital signature verification on some file types (such as .msi, and .vbs.) For the affected file types, signed files will...

Windows PowerShell, previously codenamed Monad, is Microsoft’s next generation shell. It forms a large part of the Windows Server Division’s future, and we are hiring! We have two openings in our development team for strong individual contributors to...

You can now view Bob Muglia's MMS keynote address on the Web at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/material.mspx . Starting around minut 29:00, he makes the PowerShell announcement and brings superstar Vivek Sharma on stage to demo...

Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of Word documents directly into a PowerShell session. Given all of the typographic tricks that Word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Here’s what we do. There's a piece of code...

MOW has done it again with an excellent example of a PowerShell script which does some chewy WMI processing and takes advantage of the PowerShell capabilities. http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/05/powershell-export-shares-and-security.html Quite a few...