SAPIEN’s PowerShell training does indeed cover PowerShell V2. We offer PowerShell V2 training in the following forms: Self Paced Training – Our PowerShell Class-on-Disk series was developed by Don Jones and is a four DVD set consisting of Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced topics as well as a What’s New in PowerShell V2 DVD. The Fundamentals […]
Category: VBScript
Back from TechEd: What’s wrong with using Notepad?
Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: “I use notepad, it works fine”, “Notepad is just on every machine” or “What would you do that Notepad can’t do.?” Others bowed their head almost in shame while admitting that […]
RSEE now supports PowerShell
With this month’s service release for PrimalScript 2009 (build 631) we included an updated version of the RSEE (Remote Script Execution Engine) service. The new version is now available in 32 and 64 bit and can execute PowerShell scripts remotely. It is important to note that you cannot mix the new PrimalScript build with older […]
New packaging options for PrimalScript 2009
As 64 bit Windows versions become more common, you need to deploy scripts automating 64 bit software as well as maintaining 32 bit versions of the same script. PrimalScript 2009 has always included a script packager that allowed you to wrap a variety of script types into 32 bit executables. With today’s service release (5.0.627) […]
How safe are my scripts in PrimalScript/PrimalForms packages?
This is a question that has come up a lot lately. Our Script Packager used in PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalForms 2009 stores the scripts and additional data files encrypted and in some cases, compressed inside the executable.Some formats create temporary files and use the original Windows tool to run a script; others execute directly from […]
Writing VBScript that really runs in PowerShell
It’s quite possible to run traditional WSH script from the PowerShell console, and people have even directly hosted VBScript in PowerShell since 2004 using the Microsoft Script Control. However, you can go farther than just loading VBScript into an object in a PowerShell session and calling its methods. You can use VBScript – or any other Active Scripting language, for that matter – as a scripting language for PowerShell.
Registry access from 32 to 64 bit and back
Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task the individual was facing was to come up with a way to verify installed applications via checking the corresponding Windows Installer registry entries. For a C++ programmer with access to […]
Attention User Groups
We are sending our CEO and CTO on tour! SAPIEN Technologies will be visiting a number of user groups within the US to meet and discuss ideas, present new exciting products and to get feedback from you, our customers and users. Of course we will also sponsor those meetings with cool prizes and whatever goodies […]
New content! New pricing! PrimalScript Universal 2009 is ready!
PrimalScript 2009 Universal contains everything SAPIEN has to offer including the new PrimalScript 2009, plus all the additional new applications; PrimalXML 2009, PrimalSQL 2009, PrimalMerge 2009, ChangeVue 2009, and PrimalScope 2009. Universal also contains our new books; Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell: TFM and Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM as well as […]
VBScript Includes
I’ve been using VBScript for a very long time. One drawback it has always had as a scripting language is an INCLUDE statement. In other languages you can use something like INCLUDE scriptfile at the beginning of the script. This would load any functions and variables in the specified script file into your current script. In PowerShell we can accomplish this by dot sourcing scripts. I never knew of a way to do the same thing with VBScript until now.
