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Another Holiday Present From the PowerShell Team – DSC Reskit Wave 9

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
PowerShell Team
Here’s a holiday gift from the PowerShell team – the DSC Resource Kit wave 9. You can find it right here. This wave has something for everyone, we hope. There are 34 new DSC resources across 13 modules! We have also incorporated your feedback, and made fixes to several existing resources that address issues you have encountered. ...

Setting up an Internal PowerShellGet Repository

May 20, 2014 May 20, 2014 05/20/14
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At TechEd, we announced and released an early version of PowerShellGet: a package manager for PowerShell modules.  The response was positive, and many people asked the same type of question:   “Can I set up my own internal repository for PowerShellGet?”   Many enterprise-oriented houses want the ability to create ...

Peering into script modules

June 3, 2009 Jun 3, 2009 06/3/09
PowerShell Team
Sometimes it’s handy to access internal elements of script modules. For instance you may be using a 3rd party module in your application and would like to see the internal state for debugging purposes. This can be accomplished with the invoke operator (&) which allows you to access a modules session state: & $module {script ...

How To Make Your Own Module Repository

January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09
PowerShell Team
Andy Schneider (from Get-PowerShell.com) recently asked me how he could make sure that everyone at Avanade could get a consistent set of modules.  I run into a somewhat similar problem here at Microsoft, where I want to take scripts I've built to work with internal applications and make them easy for people to use, even if they're not ...

Extending and/or Modifing Commands with Proxies

January 4, 2009 Jan 4, 2009 01/4/09
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There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin.  This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet to call another.  You could always do this but to do it right has always been very...

Windows PowerShell CTP2 to CTP3 Conversion Guide

December 23, 2008 Dec 23, 2008 12/23/08
PowerShell Team
I write a lot of scripts, and, since I blog some of what I write, my home computer has been running Windows PowerShell CTP2 since it came out.  Since CTP3 has a number of changes from CTP2, I've got to update my home script library to work with CTP3.  While this guide might not have every change that happened in between CTP2 and CTP3...