Automating the world one-liner at a time…
After delivering the Thanksgiving Gift this year, it’s time for a Holiday Gift …. No not as big as the one we had about 3 years ago …!! Today, we published the “Getting Started with Windows PowerShell Workflow” document on the CTP2 download page, just look for “WMF3 CTP2 Windows PowerShell Workflow.pdf”. This will help… Read more
I’m pleased to announce that the Community Technology Preview #2 (CTP2) is available for download. Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP2 makes some updated management functionality available to be installed on Windows 7 SP1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains Windows PowerShell 3.0, WMI & WinRM. IMPORTANT: If you have… Read more
I hope everyone has their travel arrangements figured out for next week’s PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt. In preparation, we wanted to share four more videos from the first PowerShell Deep Dive to go with the ones we blogged last week. This time we’ve got two sessions from the PowerShell Team (Bruce Payette &… Read more
If you’re wondering what to expect at the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt, Germany or you just plain love PowerShell, then you may enjoy these recordings taken from the first PowerShell Deep Dive. Many thanks to Dmitry Sotnikov for making them available. Proxy Functions – Jeffrey Snover Little Known PowerShell Tips and Tricks… Read more
We’re less than two weeks away from the PowerShell Deep Dive at The Experts Conference in Frankfurt, Germany and the schedule for the two day event is looking great! There’s even going to be a bit of PowerShell V3 content during the Keynote (we’ll reiterate some of what was shown at BUILD last month)… Read more
I published the source code for the Cmdlet Help Editor on CodePlex here: http://cmdlethelpeditor.codeplex.com/ . Please feel free to contribute. for more information on the Cmdlet Help Editor, please check out the following post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/09/01/new-and-improved-cmdlet-help-editor-tool.aspx Wassim Fayed [MSFT]… Read more
Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 makes some updated management functionality available to be installed on Windows 7 SP1 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains Windows PowerShell 3.0, WMI & WinRM. Windows PowerShell 3.0 Some of the new features in Windows PowerShell 3.0 include: Workflows Workflows that run long-running activities (in… Read more
We’re super excited about the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt on October 17 & 18. The agenda is starting to shape up nicely, so I wanted to share a number of abstracts submitted by members of the PowerShell Community that we’ve already accepted. You can also find this info on The Experts Conference… Read more
The Online parameter of the Get-Help cmdlet opens the online version of the help topic for a command in your default Internet browser. If you don’t use this feature regularly, you should. Online help topics are typically the most up-to-date version of the help topics, because module authors can update them at any time without redistributing the module. Online… Read more
The deadline for discounted registration of 850 Euros is going to be moved out to Tuesday, September 6. This is just over a month before the conference date and a little more in line with what we did for the first PowerShell Deep Dive. To sign up: Go to the TEC registration page Create… Read more