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October 2008 - Windows PowerShell Team Blog

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  • ES24: Using PowerShell To Create Manageable Web Services

    Attached are the slides I presented at the PDC. Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx Read More...

  • VI PowerScripter From icomasoft

    icomasoft has just released VI PowerScripter . PowerScripter is a PowerShell based extension module to VMWare's VI Client. I have not seen it but looking at the online manual has got to make any admin start drooling. The thing I like about this so much is that it leverages both PowerGadgets and PowerGUI. This allows them to deliver a great experience to their customers without having to code it...

  • PowerShell_ISE and Visual Studio

    Scott Fulton has a good article describing my PDC talk HERE . In it he says, " Starting with version 2, a user can conceivably write new PowerShell cmdlets in PowerShell, using the built-in IDE, completely independently of Visual Studio. " This is true but there is more to the story so here it is. PowerShell's Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) actually uses an editor control which...

  • 574 Reasons Why We Are So Proud and Optimistic About W7 and WS08R2

    In my previous blog post , I mentioned that we were all very proud and optimistic about W7 and WS08R2. There are tons of reasons for this including how well the project has been run, the hardcore focus on quality and performance, the great new features, etc. Another reason we are so optimistic is the availability of new cmdlets. There are so many teams doing so much good work with PowerShell that it...

  • NY Times Delcares PowerShell to be 30% of the value of Windows 7 :-)

    Wow - the NY Times is Johnny-on-the-spot with their analysis of the 10 best features of Windows 7 for IT Pros HERE . It turns out that PowerShell is responsible for 3 of them! Come review time, I'm telling my boss that we're responsible for 30% of the value of W7. :-) !!! Just to be clear - I'm totally joking. Windows 7 is an awesome release . It has a ton of great stuff in it. PowerShell...

  • PowerShell will be installed by default on Windows Server 08 R2 (WS08R2) and Windows 7 (W7)!

    Yes that’s right, it’s not a typo. At today’s PDC, all attendees received a Pre Beta of WS08R2 & W7 (there are advantages to going to the PDC J ). Every version has PowerShell installed by default. The one exception is Server Core were we are trying to make everything an optional install. Our vision for the ultimate server OS is one that has exactly 1 feature: Load Optional Software. It will take...

  • PDC Day 1

    I love the PDC. You meet a ton of great people, see a ton of great technology and have time to think about how to take your game to the next level. The big announcement was Windows Azure (I don't know about you but when I say that, it makes my mouth feel funny). I thought Ray Ozzie did a good job explaining Azure as a new tier of computing. Windows as an platform to enable seamless experiences...

  • Another Great Don Jones Video Demo

    This month's TechNet magazine has a great video demo from Don Jones where he uses WMI to generate a simple Software Inventory Report. The great thing about Don is his awesome ability to break things down into a series of simple steps. He does this by using Get-WMIObject from the command line and then goes through a series of scripts to illustrate various techniques that give you better and better...

  • Emit-XML

    I was writing a demo yesterday and needed a quick and dirty way to generate some XML so I wrote the function below. This highlights a couple of changes that are coming up in CTP3 that I thought I would preview. 1) The keyword "cmdlet" is going away and we'll just have "function". Notice that now you can specify the [Parameter()] attribute on parameters. When you do that, we...

  • GoGrid Snap-in - Managing Cloud Services with PowerShell

    I was pleased to see Mitch Denny’s announcement and demo of a PowerShell snapin for GoGrid . GoGrid is a cloud-based, multi-tier grid hosting service leveraging virtual machines. The snapin is a shared source effort at CodePlex (there are now 52 PowerShell CodePlex Projects ). Very cool stuff. What could go better together than cloud computing and PowerShell? At the end of the day, cloud computing...

  • PowerShell at the PDC

    I’m giving the following session at the PDC in LA in a couple of weeks: PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services Learn how to create management web services using Windows PowerShell. Topics include: how to script against of a large set of machines, how to manage raw HW devices using WS-MAN and Web Services, how to create custom "constrained environments" for scripts to run in and how...

  • Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) - In General and How PowerShell Relates

    While attending JAOO, I had the great pleasure to meet and talk with Martin Fowler and Neil Ford on the topic of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Channel 9 videotaped that discussion and you can watch it HERE . I'm quite passionate about DSLs - both FOR them and AGAINST them. The details matter! I have this concept called, "Beer Cardinality" and it applies to DSLs. Here is the way it...
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