June, 2014

We are very grateful to the Windows PowerShell MVPs Kirk Munro and Laurent Dardenne for providing lots of great ideas to enhance the Script Browser & Script Analyzer in the past 3 weeks.   Today, we are releasing the 1.3 update thanks to their suggestions. The team is committed to making the apps useful. Your feedback is very important to us.
 

Download Script Browser & Script Analyzer 1.3 
(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. Support Sub-Categories in Search Filters

You can select sub categories in the Filters now!  In the following example, I selected Windows Azure / Automation sub category to look for all Azure automation script samples.

2. Save the Search Filters.

If you have some filter combination that you would like to use very often, you can save the search.

After saving the search, you can easily revisit the search in Saved Filters.

3. Add the support of ‘PowerShell Workflow’ scripts in the Script Browser.

4. In Script Analyzer, switching the code tab will no longer trigger the script analysis automatically

This change is based on the following user feedback and the discussion with MVPs. 

https://scriptanalyzer.codeplex.com/workitem/1130

5. Other UI enhancements:

a) Reduce the height of search result in the search result list, so that user can see more search results on the screen.

b) Make it more obvious how to close the Filter option with the ‘Apply Filters’ button.

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.

Thanks to Satoru Kitabata, we get the chance to introduce the Script Browser and Script Analyzer application to the Japan IT community.

Here is a newly released MSDN article introducing how to use the Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE in Japanese.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dn770154

The following article introduces the Script Analyzer usage.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dn770155

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.

The goal of this script is to change the power button behavior in Windows 7.

Sometime users do not want to shut down the computer, and want the computer to sleep or hibernate. However, the default action in Power button "Shut down". This script is to change the power button behavior.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

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 VBScript shows how to remove all network printers on a computer.

Remove all network printers is a frequently asked question in many public forums.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

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 script is used to help administrator to get and set the EWS message size limit for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013.

The message size limit is set in web.config in IIS. This script will modify the value in the web.config file.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

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 shows how to remove disabled member from distribution group for Exchange 2010.

Frequently, for some reason, some mailboxes will be disable, if they belong to a distribution list, it is better to remove those disabled users.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

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.

We can use Get-OSCNotEncryptedMasterKey to identify the database master key which is not encrypted by service master key. By default, this script uses Windows Authentication to connect to your SQL Server. If you want to use SQL Server Authentication, just uncomment some code in this script. 

SQL Server uses a hierarchy of keys and certificates when a database is enabled for Transparent Database Encryption [TDE]. At the upper levels of the hierarchy, the Service Master Key [SMK] encrypts the Database Master Key [DMK] for the master database. The Database Master Key [DMK] encrypts and protects the Certificate and Database Encryption Key [DEK] involved in the encryption of the user database. After enabling a user database for TDE, you will be able to remove the SMK encryption of the DMK for the master database. If you restart the SQL Server at this point, the database startup will encounter error 15581 and prevent the database from starting up. In some situations, the LogWriter will hang with a wait_type of WRITE_LOG and prevent any transactions from committing in this database. Even though it is possible to remove the SMK encryption for the master database DMK, it is not recommended to do this.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery