December 2008 - Under The Stairs - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

Monad Manifesto – A Blast from the Past

I was looking today for some information about PowerShell (details on modules if you must know!), and I came across a very old Blog Posting by Jeffrey Snover. Entitled “ Monad Manifesto – the origin of Windows PowerShell ”, there’s also an 18-page white...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 5:46 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, monad, manifesto, Grateful Dead

PowerShell’s [WMICLASS] Type accelerator

In January of this year, I wrote a basic article on PowerShell’s WMI Type Accelerators . A type accelerator is, in effect,a shortcut to some underlying .NET component. PowerShell comes with three type accellerators for WMI: [WMI] – a shortcut way of getting...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2008 8:45 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, WMI, [WMICLASS], Get-WMIObject

Type Accelerators for PowerShell CTP3

Type Accelerators are a PowerShell feature that simplifies access to underlying WMI or .NET objects. Earlier this year I wrote two blog articles, the first about the WMI type accelerators and the second specifically about the [WMI] type accelerators....

Published Mon, Dec 29 2008 11:33 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, system.management.automation.typeaccelerators, type accelerator, system.management.automation

PowerShell CTP3 AutoHelp

I’ve been playing a lot with AutoHelp in PowerShell CTP3. Not sure if this is the official name, but Auto-Help enables you to decorate a script with help information. This information can then be read by Get-Help to provide help text back to a user of...

Published Sun, Dec 28 2008 5:11 AM by Under The Stairs

MSDN Code Search Preview (http://msdn.krugle.com/)

Looking at the MSDN Library site tonight and I noticed a new “Feature Spotlight” – point to a new site that enables you to search for code inside MSDN. The site enables you to search for code, and if you find something of interest, you can book...

Published Sat, Dec 27 2008 1:50 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: code formatting, MSDN, PowerShell

Enums, Enum values and PowerShell

I’ve been reading Jeffrey Snover's discussions on ENUMs over on the PowerShell Team blog ( here , and here ). I knew most of this stuff and have been playing with Enums and PowerShell for a while. I’ve created a bunch of sample scripts...

Published Fri, Dec 26 2008 9:09 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Shay Levy, scripts, enum, script, system.globalization.numberstyles, c#

Merry Christmas

Today is Christmas day and I’m away from the computer, enjoying Christmas dinner with my wife and daughter – I’m off the grid! As is our tradition, we’ll start with a nice bottle of Champagne and some smoked salmon. Then a bottle of Opus 1, with some...

Published Thu, Dec 25 2008 9:18 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, Christmas, food, wine, off the grid!

Windows PowerShell Holiday Gift Guide

From the PowerShell Scripting Guys team comes this Windows PowerShell Holiday Gift Guide . Merry Christmas! Technorati Tags: PowerShell Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 25 2008 5:01 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell

PowerShell – Online Virtual Lab

Microsoft TechNet has produced an on-line Virtual Lab on PowerShell. The lab, which lasts up to 2 hours 50 minutes, covers the following topics: PowerShell Variables Branching and Script Blocks Looping, Functions, and Filters WMI Scripting .NET Forms...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2008 5:57 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, virtual lab, TechNet

Tweet Grid For PowerShell

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...

Published Tue, Dec 23 2008 12:19 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, Tweetgrid, CTP3, Twitter

Windows PowerShell V2 CTP3 Arrives!!

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...

Published Tue, Dec 23 2008 4:04 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, CTP3

PowerShell and Clustering in Server 2008 R2

Just read an interesting blog article over on the Clustering and High Availability blog written by Symon Perriman a program manager for clustering and high availability. The article, entitled PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server R2 , discusses...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2008 11:22 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Clustering, windows server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Server R2

PowerShell Twitterers

If you are in to Twitter, and into PowerShell – here's a list of PowerShell Twitterers . It appears to be relatively up to date! The list was created by Steven Murawski, a US based PowerShell guy. Technorati Tags: PowerShell , Twitter Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 21 2008 7:53 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Twitter

PowerShell Scripts Blog now features on PowerShell.com

Tobias and the cool folks from Idera are behind the PowerShell.Com community site . They’ve just added my PowerShell Scripts Blog (http://pshscripts.blogspot.com) to their featured blogs list. Yeah! So come on over and join the community! Technorati...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2008 12:02 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Idera, PowerShell blogs, Powershell.com

Pipes: PowerShell Bloggers – Broken?

Jaykul has created a pretty cool Yahoo Pipe application ( PowerShell Bloggers ). However, today it seems to be not working – I am getting the error message: The Pipes engine request failed (504). :-( This is a shame as the application is pretty useful...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2008 11:58 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell blogs, bloggers, jaykul

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