January, 2010

99 podcasts of Pure Power. That’s what the PowerScripting Podcast has been churning out for almost three years ! Well, this week is extra special, as you might imagine from the title of this post. On Thursday, they record episode one hundred: a huge milestone...

A number of recent problems that users have reported can be tracked down to using incorrect versions of PowerShell.  Tobias Weltner (of PowerShell Plus fame) blogged the details of issue and want you need to do to ensure you are running the right...

Superstar Shay Levy recently wrote a blog article, Module Manifest Gotcha . He was exploring the various options that the Module Manifest provides and saw what he thought was a problem with using the PowerShellHostVersion key. PowerShellHostVersion...

I’m always impressed by the level of creativity of the people in the PowerShell community.  I remember having my socks knocked off the first time I saw what SoftwareFX did with PowerGadgets .  I could not believe the things that they were doing...

Instead of piping unstructured text, Windows PowerShell pipes objects between commands in a pipeline.  As a consequence PowerShell remoting also deals with objects when passing data to and from remote sessions.  This post explains how remote...

“To ship is the choose.”  That is the sad reality behind a number of the things that we regretted about V1.  When we first started the project (a LONG time ago) we knew that we wanted to close the semantic gap between what admins thought and...

Introduction Recently, we came across an interesting bug that had been around for awhile ( http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=315875 ). If you do the following: Start-Transcript ipconfig Stop-Transcript If you...

A year ago I broke my habit and made a set of News Years resolutions and then published them on the team blog HERE.   Lee Holmes suggested I go back and review how I did on those.  Glug!  Let’s give it a go: Ship a great PowerShell V2,...