April 2009 - Windows PowerShell Team Blog

I installed Win7 RC build yesterday and tried to enable PS Remoting. I launched PowerShell elevated, ran Enable-PsRemoting cmdlet but it gave an “access denied” error message PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-PSRemoting -force WinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine. Set-WSManQuickConfig : Access is denied. At line:50 char:33 + Set-WSManQuickConfig <<<< -force + CategoryInfo...

Slides and demos from the Wednesday talk at MMS 2009. Momentum around PowerShell has been great here. Lots and lots of products are showcasing the automation through PowerShell. -Hemant Mahawar [MSFT] Program Manager Read More...

One of the systems administration hurdles of the post-Vista world is figuring out how to make a script run as an administrator. In PowerShell V2, using the Start-Process cmdlet, this is a one liner that will get the job done: Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe" -Verb Runas -ArgumentList '-command "Get-Process"' Hope this Helps, James Brundage [MSFT] Read More...

Jeffry Snover and many other have used Start-Demo in powershell.exe http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/03/start-demo-help-doing-demos-using-powershell.aspx Continuing the tradition, we now have ISEDemo.psm1 To use it, start ISE and run Import-Module ISEDemo.psm1 #(attached) Start-Demo c:\path\to\demofile.txt Type enter to execute the command once its finished typing You can escape to...

ISE has an F1 help feature, where if you press F1 when your caret is over a cmdlet name, context sensitive help opens. Shay Levy has a nice post on F1 help in the ISE here http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/01/31/using-help-in-powershell-ise.aspx He adds “I wanted to mimic the way ISE’s help works when you press F1 and allow an alias to be expanded to cmdlet name.” and he...

Here is a collection of differences between the PowerShell_ise.exe and PowerShell.exe, as well as workarounds and suggestion if you need them (assuming we have them :)) Limited support for interactive console apps, try cmd.exe, then try cmd.exe /k cmd.exe /c dir still works though, and more information is available here http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/02/04/console-application-non-support...

Summary In PowerShell v1, we published a set of cmdlet design guidelines that included direction on how to properly name cmdlets. Throughout the v2 cycle, we've seen an increase in cmdlet authors deviating from the standards in unexpected ways. Our user community (you all) has become particularly vocal in recent months that we needed to do something in v2 to curb this trend. This led to a series...

The people over on WMI, WinRM, and BITS have started up a blog to share their systems management expertise with the world.  Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/wmi/ Here are some fun posts to get you started: Accessing WMI Data via WinRM Let’s Troubleshoot WMI (Part 1: Remoting & Security) (this one includes a handy chart I wrote years ago to figure out what I needed to change when WMI couldn...