June, 2010

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...

Designing useable cmdlets is part engineering and part art. It’s not an easy task to define the conceptual boundaries of a cmdlet (where does one cmdlet end and the next begin) or to provide great feature control without inundating the user with...

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...

Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3....

[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...

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...

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...

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...

PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files. On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials...