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I’ve written before about how PowerShell v3 won’t come with help “in the box,” but will instead require you to download help from Microsoft’s servers. ASIDE: Technically, any module author can provide updatable help on their own Web server; you just have to tag your …
1 1095 6247 Concentrated Technology 52 14 7328 14.0 Normal false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I wanted to get these posted for folks’ reference. The books are proceeding apace, and now that PowerShell v3 is in Release Candidate, we’re going to move forward with publication ASAP. ToC …
It’s called TechMentor. The next one is in August, at Microsoft campus. Yup, in Redmond. The mothership. And, unlike larger shows (like TechEd), you won’t be one of 15,000 people crammed into a convention center, fighting for lunch space and getting ignored by speakers. …
PowerShell V3 now supports the ObsoleteAttribute for compiled cmdlets but unfortunately not advanced functions. This is handy to let your users know that a binary cmdlet will be going away in a future release of your binary module. As we work on PSCX 3.0 there are a few binary cmdlets that we will …
It"™s hard to believe that April is almost here already. Last week we had record high temperatures reaching 31°C (that"™s 87.8°F for those of you living south of the border), and the night before last it was -16°C (or 3.2°F). What wonderful consistency. Maybe that"™s why I like …
The series of releases of client versions of Microsoft Windows seems to suffer all too much the same fate as Star Trek movies have in the past. This concept has already been discussed before, and there are even blog posts about it, such as Ewan Spence"™s comparison of Windows releases between …
One of the many new features in Windows PowerShell V3 is better support for alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS files. ADS allows an NTFS file to contain additional data that is not part of the “main” stream i.e. the file"™s primary content. Tools like Windows Explorer or even …
Note: This blog post refers to an issue identified in PowerSE 2.7.0. It has been corrected in PowerSE 2.7.1, which is now available. With the release we published yesterday, both PowerSE and PowerWF received a new feature: product-specific profiles. This feature allows you to have profile scripts …
This morning PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 were released to the web and they can now be downloaded from http://www.powerwf.com. These releases offer a lot of new value to PowerWF and PowerSE users, as follows: PowerWF 2.7 Highlights New Start Page with New Workflows The start page in PowerWF has been …
Recently there was a discussion between community experts and a product team about a module they are working on. The topic being discussed was cmdlet aliases: whether or not they should provide aliases for their cmdlets out of the box and if so, how they should be provided. Aliases are great for …
