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1. Hundreds of automation script samples based on IT Pros' frequently asked IT tasks
2. Script Browser & Script Analyzer tools to ease and improve the script writing
The PowerShell team has recently announced PowerShellGet, a new way to discover, install and update PowerShell modules, in the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview. In this blog, you will learn how to install Script Browser & Script Analyzer through the PowerShellGet.
First, you need to download and install Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview.
Next, launch Windows PowerShell ISE, and type the following command into the PowerShell console. The installation does not require administrator permission because it installs the apps to your current user profile.
Install-Module ScriptBrowser –Scope CurrentUser
After the installation, you can enable Script Browser / Script Analyzer in the PowerShell ISE by entering the following cmdlets:
The Script Browser and Script Analyzer apps have received nearly 15,000 downloads since they were released half a month ago. Microsoft PowerShell MVPs provided numerous suggestions to help us improve the apps. Based on what we have learnt in the past two weeks, today we bring to you the 1.2 update of Script Browser and Script Analyzer. The team is committed to making the apps useful. Your feedback is very important to us.
Download Script Browser & Script Analyzer 1.2(If you have already installed an earlier version of Script Browser & Script Analyzer, you will get an update notification when you launch Windows PowerShell ISE.)
1. A standalone desktop version of Script Browser
In this release, we provide a new standalone desktop version of Script Brower so that non-PowerShell scripters, e.g. SQL/VBS scripters, can also benefit from the browser.
You can easily configure the Script Browser desktop app and the Script Browser PowerShell ISE plugin to share the favorite samples and downloaded samples.
2. New Cmdlets to manually load Script Browser / Script Analyzer when you need them
In the past releases, the Script Browser and Script Analyzer plugins are turned on automatically when you start Windows PowerShell ISE. In this release, you can choose to manually load Script Browser and Script Analyzer into ISE when you need them. Here is how to do it.
First, you need to uncheck the following ‘Allow the installer to update Windows PowerShell ISE profile’ option when you install the 1.2 update. In this way, the Script Browser and Script Analyzer will not be loaded automatically when you start ISE.
Next, when you need Script Browser / Script Analyzer in the ISE, you can type the following cmdlets to load them:
When you do not need them, you can type these cmdlets:
We even provided a cmdlet for starting the desktop version of Script Browser:
3. Largely improved Script Analyzer rules
In this release, we figured out a new solution to largely improve the speedof Script Analyzer.
We have also fixed all Script Analyzer issues that users have reported. Please continue sharing your feedback with us.
4. Bug Fixes
a) Improve the startup speed of Script Browser and Script Analyzer
b) Fixed a sample rating display issue
We sincerely suggest you give the new Script Browser & Script Analyzer a try (click here to download). If you love what you see in Script Browser & Script Analyzer, please recommend it to your friends and colleagues. If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions for us, please contact us at onescript@microsoft.com. Your precious opinions and comments are more than welcome.
Script of the Day
Script Download: The script is available for download in Microsoft Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE. You need to install the Script Browser application first, and search for the script sample title.
This PowerShell script will check if system_health session has incorrect map keys in SQL Server 2012.
Every SQL Server instance has a default extended event session created with the name system_health. This session captures information about the wait_info and wait_info_external events. The current definition of the system_health session contains incorrect map_key specified for the wait_types of interest. Use the information from the knowledge base article to correct the extended event session definition.
You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery
This scripts shows how to add drive partitioning conditions in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1.
Suppose you are a SCCM administrator of a large company, computers usually have different size of disks. You may want to standardize the size of operating system partition when deploying operating systems. You can achieve this goal by adding conditions to the Format and Partition Disk task sequence steps. But a task sequence, especially a MDT task sequence contains multiple steps that require you to add conditions; it’s not easy to edit the steps in task sequence editor. So you want to use a script to ease your work.