Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank you Thank You!   I cannot say thank you to all of you following this series on the blog.  Thanks for the email, suggestions and most importantly thank you for your support.  Sarah and I greatly appreciate...

In this brief post I wanted to touch briefly on some useful PowerShell cmdlets you will be finding in many data centers in the near future.   These cmdlets are very new and in future posts, after I do some more research, you will see more on...

Sarah has been doing a great job the last few posts on community.  In response to a community question she received on one of her posts, she decided to change the topic on her post.  The questions she received: But how does an ITPro without...

In today’s post Sarah takes a look at a great question she was asked recently.  What is the .NET Framework and why should an IT Pro care?   Sarah was asked this question on the podcast we did on the 26th , and had it been why developers...

In today’s post Sarah takes another look at some exciting PowerShell projects that the community is working on.  As Sarah mentioned in yesterday’s post the community is a huge part in PowerShell’s success.  More importantly the community is...

Get-Singer –“Chairman of the Board” In today’s post Sarah takes a took at the power of the PowerShell community and for the next few posts Sarah is really going to take a great look at how the community help drive the success...

Hey everyone thanks for following our PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line 31 Days of PowerShell .  Tomorrow night 5-26 both Sarah and I will be on the PowerScripting Podcast with Hal and Jonathon!  Hopefully it will be a fun filled show...

Yup you saw that right PowerShell can be used to manage and work with your VMware environment. Specifically you use the PowerCLI when you want to manage your VMware vSphere environments. PowerCLI is a very popular third-party implementation of PowerShell...

Talk TechNet is a twice weekly, one hour radio show for IT Professionals hosted by Senior Program Manager Keith Combs and myself.  Each episode focuses on a specific product or technology. Listeners are encouraged to call in and discuss the topic...

Have you ever had the moment, and it is usually right after you hit the enter key, that OMG what I have done moment.  That please, please stop moment.  Followed by the pounding of fists, weeping, and a whole lot of NO NO NO as your c: drive...

Happy Monday! Alright this post will be a bit out of the usual, but how many times do you get tell folks you have a book and it is publicly available? (Technically this is my second but who is counting lol :-) So here goes: Available NOW: Automating...

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Get-TolkienCharacter – Gollum What  you got in your modulessssesssss.Not fair my preciou s In today’s post Sarah takes a look at what PowerShell has in it’s pockets, in the  form of snap ins and modules.  These allow to add functionality...

Knock, Knock Who's there? Sarah. Sarah who? Sa-rah phone I could use? In PowerShell 1.0 remoting was much like my joke, there was no direct way to have a remote PowerShell session.  You may have used remote desktop services or other methods to access...

When Windows Server 2008 R2 was initially released there was no Hyper-V module for PowerShell to work directly with the Hyper-V role. You could work with Hyper-V via the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). While WMI provides an invaluable component...

Welcome to part 19, this post will be slightly different from the rest of the series, but Sarah and I had an interesting email come in with a comment and a suggestion from Sean. BTW Sean thank you for feedback and suggestion, and I even borrowed your...

We have all been here before.  Maybe you have deleted a user either accidentally or on purpose.  Regardless you may need to get the user back with all of their properties, group memberships, security identifiers..etc.  In prior versions...

In part 13, I mentioned how to work with the provider for Active Directory (AD) . I also mentioned the preferred way to work with AD is with the built-in PowerShell cmdlets. In this post we are going to take a quick look at where the cmdlets are located...

With PowerShell 2.0 there are some nice GUI features to help leverage PowerShell in some new and interesting ways.  In yesterday’s post Sarah showed you the ISE works .  In this post I want to take a quick look at another GUI feature of PowerShell...

In today’s post Sarah takes a look at new GUI feature in PowerShell called the ISE.  You may have noticed that Sarah also has an excellent sense of humor and taste in music.  One of the many reasons she was a fantastic technical editor as well...

In the last few posts we have been talking about providers , for the registry and for AD .  In today’s post Sarah takes a look at the IIS Provider ( with a sprinkling of No Doubt ), and and great and easy things you can with PowerShell and IIS take...

In the last couple of posts we have taken a look at working with providers and using the registry provider .  In this post we are going to use a provider near and dear to networks everywhere, the Active Directory provider.  Working with the...

In yesterday’s post we took a look a quick look at providers .  In this post we are going to take a look at the registry.  Before I begin with this post I do have to give you the standard warning.  Working with and modifying the registry...

One of the great areas you can do a lot of work in PowerShell is with providers. Providers are little .NET programs built-in to PowerShell that allow you to work with data structures that are not typically easy to access in the command prompt. PowerShell...

In yesterday’s post on profiles you saw how PowerShell prevented the profile script from loading and how to get around the message. The security message you saw was from the PowerShell script execution policy setting and shows how PowerShell is...