While in Barcelona, I got a sneak peek at how PowerShell will – in a future version – handle remoting. It’s pretty cool. Say you start with this:
Get-Service
Simple enough, right? This uses gets a list of all services on the local computer. In fact, this runs in-process, meaning it executes within the current instance of PowerShell. Now try …
So here you have it from the horse’s mouth on the future of VBScript: This week at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona, Jeffery Snover (architect of Windows PowerShell) said that VBScript is “feature complete,” meaning it wouldn’t be developed any further, but that it also wasn’t considered “outdated” and would be included in future versions of Windows for the “forseeable …
I’ve had a bunch of folks ask, recently, why PowerShell has an [ADSI] type accelerator, but doesn’t have an Active Directory PSDrive. I’ve also wondered a bit, myself about why PowerShell’s [ADSI] type doesn’t work as well with WinNT queries as it does with LDAP queries.
To elaborate: You can, in PowerShell, do something like this:
[ADSI]$user = “LDAP://cn=DonJ,ou=Tech,dc=domain,dc=com”
And …
I’m at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona, and have picked up some great tips and news about Windows PowerShell that I thought I’d share.
First, PoSH is now part of the Windows Common Engineering Criteria (CEC). Although the new CEC needn’t be met until 2009, this is the bit of Microsoft policy which specifies how Windows components need to be …
Windows PowerShell will be a great asset to all administrators, regardless of your scripting ability. Here are my top 5 reasons I am going to love working with PowerShell.
SAPIEN Technologies today announced the release of PrimalScript 4.1, the latest version of their award-winning universal script environment. Along with significant new features for VBScript, Web, and XML development, 4.1 includes comprehensive new support for Windows PowerShell? the new Windows command line shell and scripting language released today by Microsoft Corporation.
The System Center 2007 Team has started a blog about how it will use PowerShell as its management shell. In case you were wondering, System Center 2007 will eventually replace Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM).
This is going to get interesting as more and more products move to PowerShell.
As we gear up to the release of Windows PowerShell v1.0, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new Snippets pack for SAPIEN PrimalScript. This pack is designed to make Windows PowerShell scripting easier and faster by providing 30+ Snippets that handle tough or common tasks from Windows PowerShell scripting. For example, one group of Snippets makes database scripting …
We’ve updated the “Essentials” page on ScriptingAnswers.com (http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp) to include Essentials for both VBScript and Windows PowerShell.
“Essentials” are short scripts that demonstrate how to do particular things in a script, such as enumerating through objects, bringing up a debug window, using alternate credentials, and so forth. These tasks are commonly asked about in the ScriptingAnswers.com forums, so …
Scripting guru Jeffery Hicks, of JDH IT Solutions, has joined SAPIEN Technologies as a full-time employee with the title, “Scripting Guru.” Jeffery, who has co-authored two books (Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators and Windows PowerShell: TFM) with SAPIEN’s Don Jones, will work closely with Don to produce new training materials, new scripting-related books, and more under the …
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