PowerShell 3.0 introduced updateable help feature because of which there is no in-box help. We need to use Update-Help and Save-Help cmdlets to update the help content from Microsoft download sites. Now, this is a great feature to help people get up-to...
If you have used the Deployment Imaging Servicing Management (DISM) cmdlets in Windows 8 (Server or Client), you would have quickly realized that the functionality is limited only to certain basic tasks around image servicing and tasks such as capturing...
During a few load test iterations on a SharePoint farm, I started seeing some SQL exceptions in the application log of SharePoint servers. If you are familiar with SharePoint platform, you may have seen these events such as event ID 3355. This event complains...
I was helping @LaerteSQLDBA to add PowerShell eventing support in his most recent script for performing SQL restores using SMO. He has a complex script where events are used inside a background job. And, in another event subscription outside the job,...
Now that TechED North America is done, all the sessions are now available for offline viewing at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/RSS/. There were some great PowerShell sessions by Windows PowerShell team and MVPs. So, I quickly...