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Another Fine PowerShell PowerCamp Weekend–Sadly All Over!

Under The Stairs — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Lync for Macintosh–update released

Under The Stairs — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell Weekend PowerCamp–Coming very soon

Under The Stairs — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:51:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell Scripting Games–Halfway Complete!

Under The Stairs — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

2010 PowerShell Scripting Games Begins Today!

Under The Stairs — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Under The Stairs — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell Version 3–Updatable Help (continued)

Under The Stairs — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Pluralsight Course–Formatting with PowerShell

Under The Stairs — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:04:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Under The Stairs — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell Version 3 Updatable Help Content

Under The Stairs — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell V3 Beta now available for down-level Operating Systems

Under The Stairs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell, the ETS and Type XML

Under The Stairs — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Get-ChildItem and the–Include and –Filter parameters

Under The Stairs — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows PowerShell PowerCamp–Helsinki March 10-11

Under The Stairs — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerShell PowerCamp Weekend–London–April 21-22 2012

Under The Stairs — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)