September 2011 - Under The Stairs - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

PowerShell PowerCamp–November 5/6–Filling Fast

I first started advertising this event in August, with a blog post and some tweets. Since then, we’ve had a good response with 14 folks booked so far. At this rate, we may need a bigger room. I’m going up Saturday to check out the meeting room to ensure...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:00 AM by Under The Stairs

PowerShell V3 and Updateable Help

With PowerShell v2, the help information you can get using Get-Help is fixed. if there are errors in the help information, Microsoft is not going to up date them (until V3 ships). The logic is that PowerShell is a component of Windows and the Help text...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 9:54 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell V3, PowerShell V3 CTP1

Using PowerShell and WMI to Manage the Registry

For those of you who are very keen eyed, you may have noticed some posts on my PowerShell Scripts blog related to the WMI Registry Provider. I’ve been working on a PowerShell and WMI course which will be published by Plural Sight in October. As part of...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 2:33 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, WMI, StdRegProv, Registry

Windows PowerShell Bible To Be Published Soon!

I am really pleased to see that the PowerShell Bible 2.0 , from Wiley, is due to be published very soon. This labour of love from Karl Mitschke, Mark Schill and Tome Tanasovski took a lot of time and effort. I’m so glad to see it finished and nearly...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 9:04 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerCamp, PowerShell Bible

PowerShell V3 - Autoloading Modules

Autoloading is a cool feature in PowerShell V3. With Autoloading, PowerShell allows you to ‘see’ cmdlets included in module without you needing to explicitly loading the relevant module. And when you need to run the cmdlet, the module is loaded automatically...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 2:02 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Power, PowerShell V3

PowerShell Version 3–First CTP is available NOW

The first beta version of PowerShell 3 is now available to the public. To give it it’s full name, Microsoft today released the Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #1. This allows you to install PowerShell 3.0 onto systems...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2011 1:04 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell V3

The Build Videos–Getting Them With PowerShell

I’m just back from the //BUILD/ concerence in Anaheim – where I missed far more sessions than I could have ever hoped to attend. It was 3 1/2 days of the fire hose – I get tired just thinking about it. Luckily for us, Microsoft has taped every session...

Published Sun, Sep 18 2011 9:40 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, BUILD, Build Videos, PowerShell script

Lync PowerShell Support forum on PowerShell.Com

For those of you who are using PowerShell with Microsoft’s Lync Server, there’s a additional place to ask questions – and get answers. Namely the Lync PowerShell forum on PowerShell.com . It is one of the two forums I moderate on PowerShell.com and I...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 10:51 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Powershell.com, Lync, Lync PowerShell Forum

Lync 2010 Resource Kit is Released

The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is a technical reference to Lyn Server and extends the planning, deploying and managing documentation in Microsoft’s Lync Technical Library. After a number of months in preparation, the Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit has...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 4:39 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Lync, Lync 2010, Lync resource kit, Resource Kit

Just when you think it’s safe to move to the cloud

I currently use those very nice people at CobWeb for my email service. I have a singe user account, utilising Exchange 2007 (2gb mailbox) which costs a mere £6.00 a month. The service from CobWeb, for mail, has been outstanding – not a single noticeable...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2011 1:38 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Office 365

Hyper-V in Windows 8

Microsoft have announced some more details of Hyper-V in Windows 8 in the Building Windows 8 blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper-v-to-windows-8.aspx There are two really exciting things about this. First, Hyper-V is included...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 6:22 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Hyper-V, BUILD, Windows 8

Office 365–A nice E-Book and an update on PowerShell Support in Office 365

Microsoft released Office 365 to General Availability at the end of June 2011. It’s been a couple of months since that happened and I’ve just noticed two things. First my good friend Katherine Murray has released a free eBook from Microsoft Press. You...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 5:00 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Office 365

Build Conference Getting Closer

The build up (forgive the pun) to the Build conference is slow but relentless. For those not in the know, Build is Microsoft’s upcoming developers conference around Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft’s Desktop (and Server) operating system. Although...

Published Tue, Sep 06 2011 5:32 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: BUILD, Windows 8

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