September, 2012

Windows PowerShell 3.0 is now available for download!

Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to solicit user input.

Learn to obtain the value of pi.

Learn four ways to use Windows PowerShell to find letters in strings.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using the DISM module in Windows 8 to work with desktop settings.

Guest blogger, Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Bartek Bielawski, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell AST.

Learn to create a Windows PowerShell hash table.

Use the [xml] type accelerator to greatly simplify reading XML documents.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to unblock all files in a directory.

Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Sean Kearney, begins a series of guest blogs that detail how to build your own cmdlet.

Find the last Windows PowerShell command by using an automatic variable.

Use Show-Command to display interactive Windows PowerShell parameter Help.

Learn how to create a Windows PowerShell scheduled job.

Use the Get-Help cmdlet to find the Windows PowerShell 3.0 preference variables.

Advice against using $input for a variable name.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, goes spelunking for new and improved Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlets.

See how to determine the distribution of Windows PowerShell cmdlet aliases by length.

Learn how to use the Get-NetAdapter CIM cmdlet in Windows PowerShell 3.0.

Use Windows PowerShell to identify updates applied to a computer system.

Use a one-line command to obtain WMI class schema (MOF) information.

Get the inside scoop on what's up with Windows PowerShell 3.0 updatable Help.

Use the warning redirection operator to redirect Windows PowerShell warning messages to a text file.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily download web page links from a blog.

Use Windows PowerShell multiple-line comments in your script or from the console.

Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to download TechEd 2012 session content.