January 2010 - Windows PowerShell Team Blog

99 podcasts of Pure Power. That’s what the PowerScripting Podcast has been churning out for almost three years ! Well, this week is extra special, as you might imagine from the title of this post. On Thursday, they record episode one hundred: a huge milestone by any means. A testament to dedication and passion. Episode #100 looks like it’s going to be fun: tips, tricks, and who knows what else . Join...

Superstar Shay Levy recently wrote a blog article, Module Manifest Gotcha . He was exploring the various options that the Module Manifest provides and saw what he thought was a problem with using the PowerShellHostVersion key. PowerShellHostVersion key Specifies the minimum version of the Windows PowerShell host program that works with the module. The “gotcha” here is that there are LOTS of PowerShell...

Instead of piping unstructured text, Windows PowerShell pipes objects between commands in a pipeline.  As a consequence PowerShell remoting also deals with objects when passing data to and from remote sessions.  This post explains how remote objects are serialized and which types of objects can be sent with full fidelity.  You might want to refer to this post when passing arguments to...

Introduction Recently, we came across an interesting bug that had been around for awhile ( http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=315875 ). If you do the following: Start-Transcript ipconfig Stop-Transcript If you look at the transcript, you’ll see that the output of ipconfig was not captured. Why is this happening? PowerShell recognizes that ipconfig is a native...