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  • Intel vPro PowerShell Module

    Intel has released version 1.0 of their Intel Core vPro PowerShell Module.  This set of cmdlets do Out-of-Band hardware management of devices that are equipped with the vPro chip.  What that means is that you can do a certain amount of management on devices that don’t have an OS or whose OS is hung (if you are using one of our competitor’s OSes .. or haven’t upgraded to the awesome W7 ).  ...

  • PowerShell V2.0 Book Available in Italian

    Efran Cobisi has published a PowerShell V2 book in Italian.  The title is “Windows PowerShell 2.0 – Guida completa” and is a 448 pages long.  Efran describes it as “a collection of theory, insides and hints on the scripting environment, the programming language and the most used cmdlets. It’s targeted to both developers and IT professionals and contains many sections devoted to help people...

  • Improving Parameter Set Design

    Designing useable cmdlets is part engineering and part art. It’s not an easy task to define the conceptual boundaries of a cmdlet (where does one cmdlet end and the next begin) or to provide great feature control without inundating the user with parameters. However, you can improve the usability of your cmdlets by avoiding two common parameter set design flaws. A parameter set with no mandatory parameters...

  • Using New-WebServiceProxy to get, modify, and add items to a list in SharePoint 2007

    The motivation Let’s say that you want to retrieve and modify a list in a SharePoint site, but you don’t have access to Microsoft.SharePoint.dll. One possible solution is to try to search online or ask someone to let you copy the dll. If you are able to get a hold of it, you will quickly realize that the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll has some dependencies and that you are stuck again. Well, I will show...

  • Windows PowerShell 2.0 on Windows Update

    Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3. Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 are also available as part of the Windows Management Framework (WMF) Core Package on the Microsoft Download Center...

  • Specifying a View in TechNet and MSDN URIs

    [This isn't only a PowerShell topic, but I've been asked a few times, so I thought I post the answer here.] If you've visited TechNet or MSDN lately, you'll notice that there are new view options for the pages. TechNet has a new ScriptFree view, in addition to the familiar Classic view. MSDN has two new views, ScriptFree and Lightweight. When you change your page view, your preference...

  • PowerShell Integration Into Visual Studio

    Quest has released a beta of PowerGUI Visual Studio (aka PowerGUI VSX). Check out Kirk Munro’s blog entry HERE for more details. Check out this screenshot: I can’t wait to install it and kick the tires! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft...

  • Kudos to NetApp for Data ONTAP PowerShell ToolKit

    Kudos to NetApp for releasing the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit last week at TechEd. I was monitoring the twitter feeds last week and saw a flurry of activity talking about NetApp’s broad adoption of PowerShell and release of the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit surfacing all of their management functionality through cmdlets. I decided to investigate and headed to the NetApp booth where I saw an awesome...

  • Export and Import PowerShell ISE Opened Files

    Unlike other tools, PowerShell ISE doesn’t have project files. Project files are a good way to set your environment up with a well known state. Thanks to the ISE Object Model, it is possible to add some project functionality. The script below has two main functions “Export-ISEState” and “Import-ISEState”. They can be used to save files and PowerShellTabs and reopen them...

  • Save All PowerShell ISE files

    PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files. On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials like this one and many more. If we had the "Save All" option in the ISE, one interesting question is what to do about untitled files. They...

  • Renaming Tabs in the ISE

    When you have multiple PowerShell tabs open in the ISE, it may be handy to rename them, so you can tell which is which. This is especially useful when using Remoting with Enter-PSSession. The problem when using Enter-PSSession is that you have no access to the root ISE object ( $psise ) when remoting, so you should use another (local) tab and enter the following: $psise .PowerShellTabs[0].DisplayName...

  • Quick Tip: Renaming Tabs in the ISE

    When you have multiple PowerShell tabs open in the ISE, it may be handy to rename them, so you can tell which is which. This is especially useful when using Remoting with Enter-PSSession. The problem when using Enter-PSSession is that have no access to the root ISE object ($psise) when remoting, so you should use another (local) tab and enter the following: $psISE.PowerShellTabs[0].DisplayName = 'myRemoteMachine'...

  • PowerShell V2 IS Available

    Superstar Tobias Weltner (of PowerShell.com and Powershell Plus fame) sent me some mail today pointing to this May 14th article Three Essential PowerShell 2.0 Remote Management Features .  It is a very good article except for this part: “PowerShell 2.0 is built into Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. For older operating systems, PowerShell 2.0 is scheduled to be available a few months down...

  • PowerShell Resource Page at Windows IT Pro

    Windows IT Pro magazine has created a PowerShell Resource Page HERE .  It provides a nice easy way to get at all of Don Jones’ articles.  Don is a superstar explainer of all things PowerShell so if you aren’t already following him, do yourself a favor and go read his stuff over on Windows It Pro.  Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog...

  • Smiling, Crying, and Scripting

    I once heard that everyone in the world smiles and cries the same way - that language and culture had no effect on these. I thought of that when I navigated to: http://www.computerworld.jp/topics/mws/180709.html I have ABSOLUTELY no clue what they are saying but in the middle of the article I saw this: 【リスト11：WakeOnLan.ps1】 1 param($MacAddress)  2 [byte[]] $MagicPacket = 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF...
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