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Test-Driving PowerShell v3: How To Install And Run PSv3 BETA

A new PowerShell version is coming soon! The language itself will stay pretty much the same, but there are tons of cool new features that enhance performance and ease of use . A complete list of all of the new features is available here: http://www.microsoft...

Published Tue, May 15 2012 5:32 AM by Tobias

Filed under: CTP2, PowerShell V2, V3, vistalizator, MUI, Install

Don't Waste Speed - How To Activate The PowerShell Turbo Mode

This afternoon, my buddy Alexandar (and fellow PowerShell MVP from Serbia) reviewed another batch of PowerTips when he stumbled across some lines of code that looked a bit unintuitive to him and asked to rephrase them. Sometimes there is more than one...

Published Tue, May 01 2012 11:35 PM by Tobias

Filed under: Get-Content, Get-Random, $null, Out-Null

Dynamically Processing Function Parameters

In Part1 and Part2 of this series you learned how to create functions that return rich objects and how to manage your start menu shortcuts with them. You also learned how to hand over results from one function to another one using the PowerShell Pipeline...

Published Mon, Oct 18 2010 11:58 AM by Tobias

Filed under: Get-Shortcut, Shortcut, BoundParameters, Set-Shortcut, $PSCmdlet, Parameters

Managing Child Processes

Today in my training, a student asked how to manage child processes . That's not a bad question at all, and as it turns out, it's a great way to show off the capabilities of PowerShell . So why would you care about child processes in the first...

Published Wed, May 09 2012 5:09 AM by Tobias

Filed under: Recurse, Childprocess, Process, Win32_Process, Child

Displaying Data in Excel (and why it won't work)

It's pretty easy to send PowerShell results to Excel and display them nicely as a spreadsheet. Actually, here's a simple function called Out-ExcelReport . Pipe anything to it, and it shows up as an excel sheet (provided you have indeed installed...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 1:46 AM by Tobias

Filed under: Array, Excel, Out-String, -join

Finding Logged On User (and Writing To Other People's Registry)

How would I find out the currently logged on user on a remote machine ? And how can I remotely access another person's HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive? Here are some tricks you may want to try... Who's Logged On? To find out who's logged on...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 3:47 PM by Tobias

Filed under: Registry, WMI, HKCU, Remote

Shorten Path Names (and using Low Level API functions)

Path names can grow large, and sometimes there is just not enough room to display the entire path. There is no cmdlet either that would shorten the path for you. So let's take a look today at how you can access low-level Windows API functions from...

Published Wed, Apr 11 2012 10:22 AM by Tobias

Filed under: API, Here-String, PathCompactPathEx, prompt, Add-Type

TechEd 2010 - What's hot...

I just arrived in Berlin to join this years' European TechEd. That's why this week, I'll provide you with news and gossip directly from Berlin Messegelände - and obviously, only some will center around PowerShell. Kinetics Kinetics rocks...

Published Sun, Nov 07 2010 12:55 AM by Tobias

Filed under: Office 365, Windows Phone, Intune

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