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At this week’s TechEd, I was speaking with Jeffrey Snover in the hallway on Wednesday when he remarked, “you know, Write-Host isn’t all bad.” After he got someone to come around with smelling salts to revive me, he elaborated, “so long as your verb is Show.” I …
Hey, all! I was looking over the script I’d saved from this TechEd session, and realized I could offer something better. Go to the Web page for my upcoming “Toolmaking” book. In the Downloads section, grab the book’s code samples. You’ll actually get a better example …
One of the things administrators often look to do with PowerShell is “scrape” Web pages. In the past, you had a couple of options: Use Internet Explorer’s COM object (which can get a bit fugly), or use the .NET Framework’s WebRequest stuff (slightly less fugly, but still a …
I’ve written before about how PowerShell v3 won’t come with help “in the box,” but will instead require you to download help from Microsoft’s servers. ASIDE: Technically, any module author can provide updatable help on their own Web server; you just have to tag your …
1 1095 6247 Concentrated Technology 52 14 7328 14.0 Normal false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I wanted to get these posted for folks’ reference. The books are proceeding apace, and now that PowerShell v3 is in Release Candidate, we’re going to move forward with publication ASAP. ToC …
It’s called TechMentor. The next one is in August, at Microsoft campus. Yup, in Redmond. The mothership. And, unlike larger shows (like TechEd), you won’t be one of 15,000 people crammed into a convention center, fighting for lunch space and getting ignored by speakers. …
PowerShell V3 now supports the ObsoleteAttribute for compiled cmdlets but unfortunately not advanced functions. This is handy to let your users know that a binary cmdlet will be going away in a future release of your binary module. As we work on PSCX 3.0 there are a few binary cmdlets that we will …
It"™s hard to believe that April is almost here already. Last week we had record high temperatures reaching 31°C (that"™s 87.8°F for those of you living south of the border), and the night before last it was -16°C (or 3.2°F). What wonderful consistency. Maybe that"™s why I like …
The series of releases of client versions of Microsoft Windows seems to suffer all too much the same fate as Star Trek movies have in the past. This concept has already been discussed before, and there are even blog posts about it, such as Ewan Spence"™s comparison of Windows releases between …
One of the many new features in Windows PowerShell V3 is better support for alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS files. ADS allows an NTFS file to contain additional data that is not part of the “main” stream i.e. the file"™s primary content. Tools like Windows Explorer or even …
