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Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year. Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I"™m quite thrilled about this one because it"™s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP). Thanks to the community …
Within PowerShell it has always been easy to pass “simple” arguments to an EXE e.g.: C:\PS> ipconfig -all However passing arguments to certain exes can become surprising difficult when their command line parameter syntax is complex i.e. they require quotes and use special PowerShell …
You can grab the bits from here. If you have V3 CTP1 installed, please uninstall it first or you can get your machine into a bad state. So far my favorite two features new to this drop are both in the Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE). The first is the “most recently opened files list” …
Windows PowerShell version 3 introduces a simplified syntax for the Where-Object and Foreach-Object cmdlets. The simplified syntax shown below, eliminates the curly braces as well as the need for the special variable $_. C:\PS> Get-Process | Where PM -gt 100MB ... C:\PS> Get-Process | Foreach …
A little over a week ago we released PowerSE 2.5.3 to the web. You can download the latest release here. This release includes many great improvements to the PowerSE product, many of which were requested by you, so thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming! No time limit for freeware With …
I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1. This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. There are a number of bug fixes in this drop: 28023 Read-Archive : Cannot bind parameter ‘Path’. Cannot …
I always enjoy this time of year. There is something about the transition that happens over Labour Day weekend that always gets me excited. Maybe it"™s a lingering feeling of anticipation over the new year at school or university from years gone by, a feeling that I can still appreciate these …
Today was one of my most difficult days in my 7½+ year career at Quest Software. The same week that I was given a performance raise (I got that email on Monday), this afternoon I got a phone call from the director over my business unit letting me know that my position has been cut effective …
This article describes an issue that was introduced into both PowerGUI and PowerGUI Pro when version 3.0 was released and provides a recommended solution to that issue. Problem While the PowerGUI Script Editor is closed, double-clicking on a ps1, psm1 or psd1 file or right-clicking on one of those …
In case you missed the announcement last Friday, [PowerGUI Pro ]23.0 was released to the web. With this release we included a new feature that I"™m really excited about: Mobile Systems Management Using MobileShell. We"™ve had MobileShell for quite a while, but prior to this release you …
