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Here is a collection of differences between the PowerShell_ise.exe and PowerShell.exe, as well as workarounds and suggestion if you need them (assuming we have them :)) Limited support for interactive console apps, try cmd.exe, then try cmd.exe /k cmd.exe /c dir still works though, and more information...
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I just posted a blog about our new File Transfer Cmdlets in which I artfully dodged a difficult question: How do you get the URL to do the file transfer? Sometimes you are going to have it but other times you’ll go to a website and it can be bloody impossible to find the URL that you need to download...
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Have you had a file copy fail? Does that drive you crazy or what? How about when it is a REALLY big file and it takes a couple of hours and JUUUUUST before it finishes something happens to interrupt the transfer and you have to start all over again. Does that make you want to shove a sharpened #2 pencil...
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Everyone needs to get good with Advanced Functions – this is the easiest path to the best semantics for everyone. In previous posts we’ve shown how you can add a few simple attributes and get a TON of stuff for free. There is a LOT more to advanced functions. You can go VERY VERY far with advanced functions...
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I just read a neat blog post entitled PowerShelling Audit Reports over on the TenBrink Tech blog . This blog post sets out three scripts: GetRecursiveGroupMembership.ps1, Audit-QuickGroup.ps1, and Audit-MultipleGroups.ps1. The second and third make use...
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I decided to experiment with a screencast. This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks. I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better (e.g. I recorded it at 1024x768 - is that good...
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There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin. This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet to call another. You could always do this but to...
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James Brundage posted a blog entry How To Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type which used a here-string. One user (lcr) copied and pasted the text and got the following error: Unrecognized token in source text. At line:1 char:72 + Add-Type -OutputType ConsoleApplication...
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I write a lot of scripts, and, since I blog some of what I write, my home computer has been running Windows PowerShell CTP2 since it came out. Since CTP3 has a number of changes from CTP2, I've got to update my home script library to work with CTP3. While this guide might not have every...
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Now this is neat - Tweet Grid , a page that shows recent posts about PowerShell, side by side with CTP3. It looks like this: The page auto updates, so you can see new Tweets as they come in. I will be using this page a lot over the coming days to monitor...
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Well –this is cool and a tad unexpected. In a recent post , I noted that I’d heard PowerShell had been delayed till the new year. Well, that’s WRONG. It released last night, as explained over on the PowerShell Team blog . You can get PowerShell from the...
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In an article posted during TechEd Barcelona , I suggested that PowerShell CTP 3 was coming “soon”. The statements from the MS folks suggested that “soon” would be “early December”. I joked last week that I did not ask which December. :-) I can see from...