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Select-String -Context

May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010 05/6/10
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A lot of people use Select-String but I haven’t seen much discussion of the –Context parameter.   This is an awesome feature that we added in V2.  If you haven’t tried it, you should spend a few minutes experimenting.  I can guarantee you that will you be glad you did. Let’s see what the HELP has to say about the ...

Configuring WSMAN Limits

May 2, 2010 May 2, 2010 05/2/10
PowerShell Team
As you probably know by now, all of PowerShell remoting is done via streaming extensions to WSMAN.  WSMAN is the SOAP-based DMTF standard protocol for managing everything.  As you explore the limits of what you can do with WSMAN or PowerShell remoting, you may encounter errors like this: [7592:0]PS> New-PSSession [localhost] ...

Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search

April 19, 2010 Apr 19, 2010 04/19/10
PowerShell Team
Beginning today, there's a new way to look at Windows PowerShell cmdlets. You're used to looking at them this way: (image) Or, perhaps, this way: (image) But would you like to look at them this way? (image) What if getting a list of the remoting cmdlets was as easy as clicking a category name? And you could filter to display only the ...

PowerShell V2 Open Panel Discussion Tonight

April 8, 2010 Apr 8, 2010 04/8/10
PowerShell Team
Tonight’s version of the PowerScripting Podcast is going to be an Open Panel discussing PowerShell V2 including the following topics:   If you’ve never tuned into the PowerScripting Podcast, you should.  It is both fun and informative.  Tonight’s podcast is happening at 9:30 EDT (6:30 PST).  You can find...

Announcing Scripting games 2010

April 5, 2010 Apr 5, 2010 04/5/10
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Scripting Guys have set the ball rolling for another fun filled and intresting edition of Scripting Games. You can see details here http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/04/05/2010-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx(image) Grab this badge here!  ...

Testing cmdlets with FxCop

March 30, 2010 Mar 30, 2010 03/30/10
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Windows PowerShell wouldn’t be very useful without all the great cmdlets that actually manage specific technologies.  We want to help cmdlet developers to create high-quality cmdlets.  Today we announce availability of FxCop rules that can be used to verify compliance with some of the Cmdlet Design Guidelines as well as to find ...

“Falling is Learning – Just Focus on Having Fun”

March 9, 2010 Mar 9, 2010 03/9/10
PowerShell Team
Back in the days when our hair was on fire with security issues, we brought in a number of industry experts to educate us on developing secure software.  This resulted in the Security Development Lifecycle which all our products now use.  One of the best talks was a from a guy from the NSA who had a talk that was something along the ...

Fun – Is W7 Too Good?

March 7, 2010 Mar 7, 2010 03/7/10
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Sean Kearney (aka Ye110beard of Highway to PowersHell fame ) sent me a pointer to a fun video which posits that maybe W7 is TOO good.  Just maybe it is so good that it will put IT Pros out of business.  I think the exact opposite is true - I think PowerShell and the ability script the OS and products allows IT Pros to generate a ton ...