July, 2009

Have you ever faced a situation where you want to do some PowerShell magic on a server - but you can't because it is not installed. Well, Karl Prosser is now building a tool to do that. From Karl's blog... "Portable PowerShell is software that allows...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing. Both of these products include Windows PowerShell 2.0 and its exciting new features, such as remoting, ISE, modules, advanced functions, enhanced WMI support, and a variety of new...

Using add-type and import-module you can dynamically compile and load an assembly without any intermediate assembly files to cleanup. For instance, to run a cmdlet on a remote machine you could send over the cmdlet source code, compile, import, and run...

Several Windows PowerShell online help fans have requested a list of all of the URLs of Windows PowerShell Core online help topics in the TechNet Library. I'm providing them here so that they're available to everyone. The file includes URLs for...

A number of you are already familiar with Dr Tobias Weltner.  Tobias has been involved with Windows scripting for many many years.  He was very active in the VBScript and WMI communities and then an very early adopter of PowerShell.  He...

First, I want to say thanks to everyone who posted suggestions for the verb list on the blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/22/soliciting-new-verbs.aspx . In addition to the blog comments, we received a lot of feedback from our...

I’m watching a cool talk by Greg Kroah Hartman about the Linux Kernel .  He just said something that I absolutely LOVE and feel great kinship towards.  He said that the joke in the Linux community is that “ Linux is not ‘Intelligent Design’...

Here is a collection of tips and tricks to debug PowerShell Read Up There is a 7-part series of “ Debugging Monad Scripts ” that Jon Newman wrote a few years ago that covers a lot of tips, including error handling, traps, tracing, and covers a lot...

In Windows PowerShell 2.0, you can write help topics for functions, scripts, and modules, just as you do for cmdlets and providers. In fact, as a best practice, you should always include help topics for all shared PowerShell items. And we make it easy...

PowerScripting Podcast hosted by MVP Hal Rottenberg will have MVPs Joel Bennett & Oisin Grehan. They will talk about PoshCode See it live tonight at 9pm EDT http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast Next week: MVP Don Jones will...

I was just reading the whitepaper Automating Citrix XenApp on XenServer deployments on HP ProLiant servers . The reason why this works well for them is that the HP Insight Rapid Deployment (RDP) software has the ability to launch scripts at various points...