SAPIEN Press’ Windows PowerShell 2.0:TFM eBook by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks is ready for purchase and download on ScriptingOutpost.com. This book is a major update to the best selling Windows PowerShell 1.0:TFM, the first PowerShell book available. Don and Jeff have updated their opus to include every nook and cranny of PowerShell 2.0. Check […]
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Free Windows PowerShell ebook
With the recent release of Windows PowerShell v.2 and the immanent publication of our well regarded Windows PowerShell v.2 TFM book by Don Jones and Jeff Hicks, SAPIEN is releasing our Windows PowerShell v.1 TFM eBook as a FREE download to the public. Even though this eBook is for version 1 of PowerShell, the book […]
Powershell Help 2.0 Community Edition
Our Powershell Help tool has been a favorite download for quite some time now. The built-in help command in the Powershell console is helpful if you need just some quick lookup, but for browsing and reading the console just isn’t good enough. The CHM file Microsoft released is a pretty nice graphical way of getting […]
PowerShell V.2
PowerShell V.2 is here and SAPIEN is ready! Don Jones and Jeff Hicks have been working hard on a text for version 2. The result is Windows PowerShell V.2: TFM. We are currently accepting pre-orders as ScriptingOutpost.com. To read more about content and changes please visit http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell3.asp
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 […]
Sometimes all you need is an editor
System Administrator are a busy lot and some of them literally run around all day fighting fires on computers no longer connected to anything. Others use remote access to tend to a large number of servers. Or both. Thanks to scripting, most repetitive tasks are taken care of. But sometimes you need to double check […]
Microsoft Update PowerShell v1.0
After a lot of hard work on the PowerShell team’s part, Microsoft has finally made PowerShell v1.0 available as an optional download on Microsoft Update. It will likely only be detected if you have no other versions of Powershell already installed, this includes any CTP release. Obviously you must be running a supported operating system […]
WMI Live
Similar to the enhanced SQL support, PrimalScript 2009 provides enhanced WMI and WQL support. WMI is an important tool in the administrators arsenal. It allows you to accomplish many tasks, local and remote with very little effort. However, the sheer number of WMI classes and their properties can be overwhelming and make it sometimes hard […]
Objects in motion
Writing scripts to automate administrative tasks can be challenging. Not only do you need to master the particular scripting language you intend to use, you also need to find the right object and technology for the task at hand. PrimalScript 2009 makes the development cycle of Discovery – Experimentation – Implementation that most script authors […]
