May 2009 - Windows PowerShell Team Blog

Oisin Grehan, PowerShell MVP has done a diff between Powershell 2.0 that shipped with Win7 Beta and Win RC... very useful if you have moved to RC build (or planning to do so) http://www.nivot.org/2009/05/22/PowerShellV20DifferencesBetweenCTP3Win7BetaAndWin7RC.aspx . PowerShell team thanks Oisin for this useful blog post. Osama Sajid, Program Manager Read More...

There were quite a few name changes in the ISE Object Model from CTP3 to RC Using Update-TypeData, we can achieve some parity between the two We can add aliases to the CTP3 version to make it look like the RC Version For example, <Name>System.Management.Automation.Host.PSGHost</Name> <Members> <AliasProperty> <Name>CurrentPowerShellTab</Name> <ReferencedMemberName>CurrentOpenedRunspace<...

I do this so frequently that I finally put it into a script called Get-WindowTitle.ps1 . Get-Process |where {$_.mainWindowTItle} |format-table id,name,mainwindowtitle –AutoSize Here is what it does: [4696:0]PS> Get-WindowTitle Id Name MainWindowTitle -- ---- --------------- 2448 mmc Server Manager 4696 powershell Administrator: Windows PowerShell 3828 powershell_ise Administrator: C:\Windows\System32...

One of the nifty features of functions in PowerShell is that they can return as many results from as many places as you’d like.  In fact, any method or cmdlet that would give you an output if you try it on the command line will also return values from a function.  While this can give you a lot of powerful capabilities (like easily building functions that return a list of items), it can also...

Scripting is fun .. and it gets better when you do it as part of Scripting Games hosted by Microsoft Script Center . But wait there is more - this year Scripting Center is hosting Summer Scripting Games in collaboration with PowerShellCommunity.org and PoshCode.org .This announcement comes straight from Tech.Ed 2009. See full details here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games...

Today my wife told me about a problem on the family PC.  There were a bunch of PDF files in a directory that had the wrong permissions so my son couldn’t access them.  She modified the ACL on one of them using Explorer and verified that that was the fix.  (This is from a test I ran) She then selected them all and tried to do it all at once but when she brought up the Properties, it didn...

I just decided to restart Outlook to see if that made some weirdness I was experiencing go away.  As you may or may not know, the Outlook process often is running for quite a bit after the Outlook window goes away.  As such, you really don’t want to start another instance of Outlook until the first version is done.  In V2, we now have the WAIT-PROCESS command so what I wanted to do was...

Gent Hito and the superstars at /n software has just announced a new product division, PowerShellToys.  This division is focused exclusively in PowerShell technologies.  PowerShellToys products bridge other Microsoft technologies to PowerShell making it easily accessible to other developers: Web Developers, Desktop Application Developers, Database Developers, etc..   Gent told me...