It must be the season – but I’ve got another 5-day PowerShell course coming up in December. I’ll be teaching in London from December 13th – December 17th at Global Knowledge’s Baker Street centre. I’ll be running the full 5-day 10325 PowerShell V2 Microsoft...
Recently, when I was training a group of enterprise admins, a question came up: Why is PowerShell remoting not working on Windows XP? Well, it does! As it turned out, they had downloaded the "wrong" PowerShell version. How come? When you search for PowerShell V2 downloads, you will find tons...
I've stumbled upon blog post that talks about accessing remote registry, collecting "Automatic Update" configuration info and creating custom object to hold that data for further processing/formatting. The author has used Add-Member cmdlet to add quite a bunch of NoteProperties to the custom...
If you'd like to customize your Windows PowerShell ISE be prepared for some breaking changes in Windows PowerShell ISE that comes with Windows 7 RC (May I call it Windows PowerShell ISE RC?). In Windows PowerShell ISE CTP3 $psISE, custom host variable, has following properties: PS C:\> $psISE...
Another interesting PowerShell tidbit. Alexandair has documented a bit more information about the #Requires statement in PowerShell. As he described in PowerShellers: The "#requires" statement , the #Requires statement has been in PowerShell...
Introduction As PowerShell has evolved, there are a number of things that have been needed to be added in order to make it truly enterprise ready. One of the key concepts added into Version 2 of PowerShell is that of a module. A module is some chunk of...