If you use PrimalScript and the PowerShell Community Extensions, you may have experienced a conflict between the two, especially if you are using the default PSCX profile. Thanks to PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan for pointing out a fix: Look for the line in your Pscx installed $profile that says:Start-TabExpansionand comment it out with a #. […]
Category: General
Happy Independence Day
While we here at SAPIEN take a holiday on 4th of July to celebrate Independence Day, I wanted to take a moment to say "Happy Independence Day" to all our customers and readers. All of us at SAPIEN hope you enjoy BBQ and beer on this occasion as much as we do.
Windows Server 2008: FRS to DFS-R
If you are running Windows Server 2008 I hope by now you’ve picked up a copy of Windows Server 2008: What’s New/What’s Changed by Greg Shields. While this is a terrific resource to get you started, you’ll likely want some more in-depth information. Greg has a short lesson on migrating from FRS to DFS-R you might interest you.
Another MVP in the SAPIEN family
I just found out that my friend, fellow Techmentor-or, Redmond columnist, SAPIEN author and all around good guy was made a Microsoft MVP in Terminal Services. Greg’s latest book is Windows Server 2008 What’s New/What’s Changed. You can read about his reaction here. Congratulations Greg! And don’t forget SAPIEN Press’ other MVP winning author Ilse […]
PowerShell MVP x2
I have to admit I was a little nervous about my end of my PowerShell MVP award year. Had I done enough over the last year to maintain it? Or enough to merit a another year? Did I spend enough time in discussion forums? Was I helpful to enough people? Fortunately it appears I was.
Techmentor NYC and Las Vegas
I am slated to speak at this fall’s Techmentor shows in New York City(Sept. 7-10) and Las Vegas (Oct.13-17) . I’ll blog about scheduled sessions at a later date. Although you can assume plenty of PowerShell coverage. I hope you can make it out for one of the shows. TechMentor Conferences If you’ve never been […]
Get-Tweet
Since I find myself spending so much time in a PowerShell console, I’m always trying to find ways to stay. I recently posted my version of a PowerShell script to send a message to Twitter. But that’s only half the story. If I want to check for recent tweets I have to switch to Firefox and the use the Twitterfox addon. But since everything in Twitter comes via a web page or RSS feed, it is pretty simple to use the System.Net.Webclient class in a PowerShell script to get what I want. To that end I wrote a function called Get-Tweet to return recent tweets.
PrimalScript 2007 Build 567 released
PrimalScript 2007 Build 567 has been released. Please log on to http://my.sapien.com to get the latest download and try the new PowerShell debugger. To learn more about this service release, please have a look at our service bulletin at http://support.sapien.com/bulletins/SB567.pdf
Out-Twitter
I finally finished my version of a PowerShell Out-Twitter function. This allows me to send a quick tweet directly from the PowerShell console. The original and inspiring Out-Twitter can be found at http://cid-5dec3b62d9308943.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/PowerShell%20Scripts/Twitter. My version will used cached credentials, check for tweet length and replace any URLs with Snurl’d URLs.
Scripting/SysAdmin Meme
I saw that Kirk Munro called me out on on Steven Muraski’s Scripting/SysAdmin meme . Here’s my contribution to the meme.
