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November 2008 - PowerShell Team

PoshBoard and ConvertTo-HashTable

November 23, 2008 Nov 23, 2008 11/23/08
PowerShell Team
I’m currently watching an cool video of PoshBoard a PowerShell based Web Portal by Pilosite available on CodePlex.   It looks great.  In the middle of the video I noticed the following script he uses to populate one of the controls on the dashboard: $ht = @{ } $objDrives = gwmi –class “Win32_logicalDisk” –Namespace...

Verbs vs Nouns by Snapin

November 22, 2008 Nov 22, 2008 11/22/08
PowerShell Team
A while ago the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team showed me a chart of their cmdlets.  It was an Excel spreadsheet which had the VERBs as rows and the NOUNs as columns.  I thought that this was a wonderful way to look at the cmdlets.  I woke up this morning and decided to write a script which would do something similar...

Step up your FOREACH Game

November 19, 2008 Nov 19, 2008 11/19/08
PowerShell Team
Last night Bruce Payette and I were interviewed on the PowerScripting Podcast with Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz.  It was a blast!  There were a ton of people connected and were firehosing questions & comments in the Chat window.  There were lots of comments/discussions about Twitter.  I confessed to having never ...

PowerShell Comic

November 11, 2008 Nov 11, 2008 11/11/08
PowerShell Team
I just found THIS.  ha ha! 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...