Marco Shaw (a longtime regular at www.ScriptingAnswers.com) is announcing a new, online Windows PowerShell user group. The group plans to meet via LiveMeeting thanks to some help from Microsoft, and for the first few meetings intends to invite some of the international “PowerShell Superstars” to speak about what they’re doing with the shell (I’ll have […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
Podcast interview
Greg Shields, moderator at www.realtime-windowsserver.com, did an interview with me regarding Win2008, PowerShell, and bad things to do in your orporate logon script. Catch it at http://www.realtime-windowsserver.com/podcast/2007/09/powershell_and_server_2008_an.htm.
Free tool to script FTP transfers
One of the most-requested items in the forums on ScriptingAnswers.com is a way to automate FTP transfers – something more robust that simple input scripts for the built-in FTP.exe app. well, ask no more, just go to http://www.primalscript.com/freetools and download the new FTP COM object. With it, you can connect to FTP sites (providing credentials […]
JUST the good bits…
Did you know that you can get TechNet Magazine online? They even make a CHM version available for download (for offline reading). Most importantly, though, you can make custom RSS feeds, like this one: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/rss/newrss.aspx?author=Don+Jones&fn=Don Jones’ PowerShell Column on TechNet Magazine which contains only my PowerShell column. That way you can get all your PowerShell […]
Shut up, shell!
I recently answered a forums post from someone who was wanting to make PowerShell’s error messages go away. That is, he was fine with the errors occurring, but wanted to suppress their output in the console window. Easy, once you know how! Errors – and anything output by Write-Error – wind up in a special […]
Super Summer Sale on Self-Paced Shell Schooling
Here’s a very limited-time offer: Get “Windows PowerShell Class-on-Disc” self-paced training for as low as $49 through the end of August, or while supplies last.
Sensitive Operators
I’ve been playing with PowerShell’s operators a lot this week… one thing I’m sure you’ve noticed is that operators like -eq, -match, and -like are all case-insensitive. By default, PowerShell is pretty insensitive throughout the shell, which means you can be a bit lazy. “Don” is the same as “don” is the same as “DON” and so forth.
But there are times when you might want PowerShell to be a bit more sensitive. And in those cases, there are always the case-sensitive operators:
PowerShell Podcast
I’m tuckered out on podcasting myself, but I’m glad to see someone’s got the time… http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/ is an excellent (and long) PowerShell-centric podcast you should check out when you have a moment.
PowerShell Training throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia!
SAPIEN Technologies has signed an agreement with Global Knowledge to deliver our Windows PowerShell training throughout the Europe, Middle East, and Asia (EMEA) market, including the UK (note that the link is for their UK business; other Global Knowledge centers throughout the EMEA region are also participating). This makes PowerShell training available across a wide […]
Wanna be a trainer when you grow up?
So, here’s the deal: We’re getting a LOT of demand for our Windows PowerShell training. Which is, of course, good – demand pays the mortgage bill! But Jeffery Hicks and are are getting a lot of training requests, and our families miss us. Even though we’re working hard to find additional training partners to help […]
