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Another Fine PowerShell PowerCamp Weekend–Sadly All Over!

The weekend of April 21/22, 18 hearty IT Pros and I spend two days looking into PowerShell. A jump start look at all the key aspects of Windows PowerShell. The event focused on the core aspects of PowerShell – Cmdlets, the Pipeline, Objects, and Remoting...

Published Wed, May 02 2012 10:26 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, PowerCamp, PowerShell training, PowerShell V3

Lync for Macintosh–update released

Microsoft has released an update for the Lync client for Mac. This update fixes the following: Several issues with Cisco and Juniper VPN clients An issue that causes an Active Directory lockout when the Kerberos protocol is used Several issues that cause...

Published Thu, Apr 26 2012 10:55 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Lync

PowerShell Weekend PowerCamp–Coming very soon

As many of you know, I’ve long been an advocate of all IT Pros (and devs!) learning more about PowerShell. There are a lot of ways to do this, and one great way is to attend a short (read 2 day at the weekend), jump start events. And as it happens, there...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2012 10:51 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, training, PowerCamp, PowerShell V3

PowerShell Scripting Games–Halfway Complete!

If you are a PowerShell Junkie, you know that the PowerShell Scripting Games began last Monday, and the first five events, in each category, are now posted and are being judged. If you are not a PowerShell junkie, the PowerShell Scripting Games is an...

Published Sun, Apr 08 2012 9:09 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting Games, Scripting Games 2012, Powershell Scripting Games

2010 PowerShell Scripting Games Begins Today!

As many PowerShell fans know, today sees the beginning of Microsoft's PowerShell Scripting Games. The Scripting Games are a set of 10 PowerShell challenges in two classes (Beginner and Expert). The idea is simple: you sign up for either of the classes...

Published Mon, Apr 02 2012 4:26 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting Games

Finding The Folder the .NET Utilities Live in - Using PowerShell

I am playing around with some PowerShell V3 stuff and needed to use Ngen.exe to do a native generation of an assembly and move it to the Global Assembly Cache. So where is it? I could have wandered around in the Windows folder, but instead decided to...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 7:46 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, .NET, System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeEnvironment

PowerShell Version 3–Updatable Help (continued)

In a recent blog article I discussed the new updatable help feature of PowerShell V3. In that post I described the Update-Help cmdlet and shows how you use that cmdlet to up date your help information. The Update-Help cmdlet knows how to go online to...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 11:34 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V3, Updable Help, v3, Updatable Help

Pluralsight Course–Formatting with PowerShell

I’ve just finished creating my latest course for Pluralsight , entitled Formatting with PowerShell. The course looks at how you can get great output from PowerShell - including both defaults and what you can do to improve your output. Formatting...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2012 11:04 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, .NET, formatting, formatting with PowerShell, Pluralsight

Invoking a PowerShell Command from within a program–How Do They DO That?

One of the aspects of the Monad Manifesto was its advocating building GUIs on top of PowerShell. For some devs and fewer IT Pros, the mechanism is pretty clear and straightforward. But for a lot, it’s a bit of a black art. In this article, I’ll look at...

Published Sun, Mar 04 2012 11:09 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, .NET, PowerShell V3, Pipeline Command, Runspace Factory, Command, Pipeline, Runspace

PowerShell Version 3 Updatable Help Content

PowerShell has always had good in-box help. Each cmdlet has extensive documentation, complete with syntax and parameter details and plenty of good examples. As with all documentation, updating the help content has not been easy – or as easy as you might...

Published Fri, Mar 02 2012 6:21 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Windows 8, PowerShell V3, Updable Help, Help

PowerShell V3 Beta now available for down-level Operating Systems

Unless you’re in a cave deep in the moutains somewhere (in which case you won’t read this anyway!), you know that Microsoft has now released the first beta of Windows 8 client and server. Personally, I downloaded the server beta yesterday and am busy...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 11:57 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell V3, PowerShell Beta, download, PowerShell V3 beta

PowerShell, the ETS and Type XML

One of (the many!) cool features of PowerShell is the ETS, the Extensible Type System. With the ETS, you are able to create new types and, perhaps more importantly, extend existing types simply and easily. The ETS is one of the key ways that PowerShell...

Published Wed, Feb 29 2012 8:35 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell Extensible Type System, ETS, Type.PS1XML

Get-ChildItem and the–Include and –Filter parameters

I saw a good question the other day in the PowerShell.Com Learn PowerShell Forum which related to using –Include when calling Get-ChildItem (or DIR, or LS!). The OP had a bunch of files in a folder (C:\Data) and wanted to get at just the *.txt files as...

Published Wed, Feb 08 2012 11:31 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Performance, Filter, Include, Get-Child Item, Get-ChildItem

Windows PowerShell PowerCamp–Helsinki March 10-11

Arrangements for this event in Helsinki are moving along nicely. Those very nice people at Sovelto, who are hosting the event, have put up a new web page around the event: see http://www.sovelto.fi/kurssit/Pages/PowerShell-PowerCamp.aspx (or to see this...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 3:05 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerCamp, Helsinki

PowerShell PowerCamp Weekend–London–April 21-22 2012

As I noted in an earlier bog post, I ’m pleased to be able to bring you a PowerShell PowerCamp weekend events in London in the not too distant future. Here’s the details! What is A PowerShell PowerCamp? This fast paced weekend event...

Published Mon, Jan 23 2012 8:19 AM by Under The Stairs

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