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DAL in action: Managing Network switches using PowerShell and CIM

July 31, 2013 Jul 31, 2013 07/31/13
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This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog.  Today’s blog post covers management of network switches using CIM and WS-Man standards and how it applies to the larger topic of “Transform the Datacenter.”  To read that...

Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview Now Available

July 2, 2013 Jul 2, 2013 07/2/13
PowerShell Team
With the availability of Windows 8.1 Preview and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, we hope everyone has been enjoying our updates to Windows PowerShell and other management tools. We especially hope you’re having fun with our newest feature, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration. Because we want as many people as possible to ...

Understanding PowerShell’s Type Conversion Magic

June 11, 2013 Jun 11, 2013 06/11/13
PowerShell Team
Type Conversion in PowerShell is, without question, one of the most useful ingredients in its "Magic Sauce" of administrator effectiveness. When you run a command with a specific parameter type (I.e.: a DateTime or a TimeSpan), things seem to "just work". For example, consider this recent question / info dump on Twitter...

Microsoft Script Explorer: Next Steps

April 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2013 04/5/13
PowerShell Team
For those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven't released additional updates to it since we published the release candidate (RC) in August 2012. Over the past few months, we have been talking with customers and partners and taking a hard look at the adoption rate of the RC in terms of ...

First German PowerShell Community Conference

January 25, 2013 Jan 25, 2013 01/25/13
PowerShell Team
We are delighted to broadcast that the community will hold the first German PowerShell Community Conference on April 10 and 11, 2013 in Oberhausen, Germany.  As shown by the “sold out” PowerShell Summit for North America, there is a real need for PowerShell focused conferences that offer the attendees the opportunity to dig ...