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Windows 7 Info - WinHEC 2008 White Papers

Microsoft has published a number of White Papers on various aspects of Windows 7 (including Windows Server 7). These White papers come from Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (aka WINHEC). You can get the papers here . Technorati...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2008 3:51 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 7, WinHEC, White Paper

Steve Dunn's Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer Breaks New Live Writer Version

I use the code formatter from Steve Dunn's web site to format code on my PowerShell Scripts Blog . Having just updated my main workstation to use the latest version of Windows Live Writer , I find the current version of the formatting tool (1.0.0...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2008 7:48 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: code formatting, PowerShell, PowerShell blogs, Live Writer, Steve Dunn

Online Syntax Highlighting for Powershell

If you are posting PowerShell code sample and want to format the text nicely, there’s an on-line high-lighter tool that will do this for you available here . This formatting tool is pretty nice. Consider the following script (from http://pshscripts.blogspot...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2008 1:25 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, syntax formatting

WireShark Training – part 3

Those nice folks at Network Protocol Specialists have part three of their WireShark training today. The webcast starts in a few hours – see https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/415806842 to register. This week’s webcast convers separating ‘good’ traffic...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2008 9:37 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: webcast, training, wireshark

PowerShell CZ – Another PowerShell blog (In Czech)

Sadly, I don’t speak Czech – if I did, the PowerShell CZ blog would be more useful. Nevertheless, some of the articles are clear enough to PowerShell folks – just look at the code posted in the article. I tried the translator at www.tranexp.com , but...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2008 10:05 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, blogs, blog

PowerShell CTP 3 Coming soon – But How Soon is Soon?

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...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2008 7:06 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, CTP3

Windows Live Writer and Messenger – Working on Server 2008!

Like many techies I know, I use Windows Server 2008 as my main workstation OS. I find it much more stable than any other MS OS, with none of the consumer gimmicks of Vista. I am very happy with using Server 2008 – I get all the useful features of Vista...

Published Tue, Dec 16 2008 6:22 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Live Writer, Windows Server 2008, Live Messenger

.NET and PowerShell

This week, Jeffrey Snover has posted an excellent post, Explore Your [Environment] , that examines both some of the details of the [System.Environment] class but also on how PowerShell integrates with .NET. As I said in a comment on the blog, I wish I...

Published Mon, Dec 15 2008 9:30 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, system.int32, .NET

PowerShell WMI Based Audit Script

I’ve been writing about WMI and PowerShell of late – and notices this cool PowerShell Audit Script on Alan Renouf’s Virtu-Al’s blog. It’s not a particularly new post, but the result if pretty awesome. It produces a nice rich HTML file as output that looks...

Published Mon, Dec 08 2008 8:06 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, WMI

PowerScripting Podcast

For those of you who like podcasts and PowerShell, take a look at the PowerScripting Podcast site. These podcasts are primarily all about PowerShell and air weekly. The last episode (their 50th!!) featured Ed Wilson, who wrote PowerShell Step-by-Step...

Published Sun, Dec 07 2008 3:08 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, podcast

Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide - DON’T DOWNLOAD THIS

I just got a Google alert showing where I could download a free copy of the Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide. However, the download contains a Trojan! Be careful and avoid http: //download-apps.net/2008/11/28/windows-powershell-scripting-guide.html...

Published Sat, Dec 06 2008 7:09 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, warning, trojan

Discovering WMI using Windows PowerShell

Around 2 1/2 years ago, I wrote a blog item entitled Discovering Networking with Monad and MSH where I looked at some aspects of WMI and how to discover more. Since then, I’ve published a few more articles on WMI . The key thing for IT Pros to understand...

Published Sat, Dec 06 2008 5:36 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, WMI, WMI Explorer

Get-Process Produces Negative Numbers

I saw an interesting item over on the PowerShell newsgroup today. The poster was using Get-Process on an X64 system and was seeing negative numbers in the Working Set column against the SQL Server. The answer was a simple one, as it turns out. The Get...

Published Fri, Dec 05 2008 4:01 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, system.diagnoistics.process, system.diagnostics.process

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