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Get Great Software and Help Haiti

January 19, 2010 Jan 19, 2010 01/19/10
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I’m always impressed by the level of creativity of the people in the PowerShell community.  I remember having my socks knocked off the first time I saw what SoftwareFX did with PowerGadgets.  I could not believe the things that they were doing.  In fact I couldn’t even figure out how they were doing some of them!  ...

How objects are sent to and from remote sessions

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10
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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 ...

TB & PB

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10
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“To ship is the choose.”  That is the sad reality behind a number of the things that we regretted about V1.  When we first started the project (a LONG time ago) we knew that we wanted to close the semantic gap between what admins thought and what they had to type.  Imagine that you wanted to find all the processes that had ...

TB & PB

January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10
PowerShell Team
“To ship is the choose.”  That is the sad reality behind a number of the things that we regretted about V1.  When we first started the project (a LONG time ago) we knew that we wanted to close the semantic gap between what admins thought and what they had to type.  Imagine that you wanted to find all the processes that had ...

Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes

January 4, 2010 Jan 4, 2010 01/4/10
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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. ...

Scorecarding My 2009 Resolutions

January 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010 01/1/10
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A year ago I broke my habit and made a set of News Years resolutions and then published them on the team blog HERE.  Lee Holmes suggested I go back and review how I did on those.  Glug!  Let’s give it a go...