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Monday, September 14, 2009 5:22 PM

On PowerShell function design: vague can be good.

There is a problem which comes up in several places in PowerShell – that is helping the user by being vague about parameter types. Consider these examples from my Hyper-V library for PowerShell 1. The user can specify a machine using a string which contains
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Friday, July 24, 2009 4:39 PM

PowerShell on-line help: A change you should make for V2 (#3) (and How to Author MAML help files for PowerShell)

In the last could of “change you should make” posts I’ve talked about a couple of things which turn Functions from being the poor-relation of compiled Cmdlets (as they were in PowerShell V1) to first class citizens, under V2. Originally the term “Script
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:11 PM

PowerShell Modules: A change you should make for V2. (#2)

A few days back I wrote about PowerShell version 2’s ability to confirm whether it should be changing something . Since I was writing something which would some pretty drastic changes , supporting –WhatIf and –Confirm for almost no effort seems like a
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:52 PM

How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).

I have been working on some PowerShell recently to handle the initial setup of a new machine, and I wanted to add the activation. If you do this from a command line it usually using the Software Licence manager script ( slMgr.vbs ) but this is just a
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:22 PM

More PowerShell: A change you should make for V2. (#1)

There will be a couple more posts on changes for V2, of PowerShell but I want to get something really clear up front. All V1 PowerShell should work in V2. Should meaning unless you have been really stupid or are very unlucky; you won’t NEED to change
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:17 AM

How to: have nicer Active Directory management from PowerShell – without upgrading AD

One of the first books I read on PowerShell  had a comment about using AD from the PowerShell V1 which amounted to “It’s too hard, don’t bother use VB Script instead”. I’d taken against the book in question (no names no pack drill) – in fact it reminded
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:48 PM

How to get user input more nicely in PowerShell

Long, long ago when I was using my first Microsoft product, I knew one way to get input from the user. The product was Commodore BASIC (in those days we wrote it in uppercase and knew it stood for Beginners All-purpose Symbol Instructional Code). and
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:28 PM

Parsing lists to objects in PowerShell – Tzutil

Last week I taught a PowerShell class – the first time in ages I’d gone back to my old role as a trainer, and of the first things we do explaining PowerShell is explain that (a) When PowerShell’s own commands are piped together they pass object with properties
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Monday, June 08, 2009 11:51 AM

Llet the [scripting] Games begin.

The Windows scripting guys have put up the details of the first event in this years summer scripting games. Entries this year can be in VB Script or PowerShell and each of the 10 events has a  beginner and Advanced version. I could do the advanced
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:15 PM

Boot from VHD – the joy of BCDedit and a nice hyper-v gotcha or two.

I’ve been updating two of my machines from the Beta to the RC of Server 2008 R2. It’s been quite a learning experience, and I’ve put together a video to show some of the things that Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 can do with VHDs which should be posted
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:24 AM

How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell

I mentioned recently that I’m writing a PowerShell configuration tool for the R2 edition of Hyper-V server and Windows server core. One of the key parts of that is managing the firewall settings…. Now… I don’t want to plug my book too much (especially
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Monday, February 16, 2009 11:40 AM

How to drive Twitter (or other web tools) with PowerShell

First of all since I’ve mentioned twitter a few times recently I should say I have this cartoon of Hugh’s in my head as a warning . After a 10 days on Twitter I’m qualified to talk about it like an expert … There are some obvious points of interest. (1)
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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:29 AM

A Job or two saved for my “PowerShell configurator”

Somewhere in the queue of things to post is the remainder of my PowerShell configurator for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and Hyper-VS Server R2. If you’re building a cluster the PowerShell CMDlets for clustering make that a breeze. Of course a cluster
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Monday, February 02, 2009 12:52 PM

Shutting down a lot of machines with Powershell.

A lot of my free time last year went into a book and one of the chapters in the book is about working with Active Directory from PowerShell. Version 1 leaves you with some work to do, and although we’re plugging this gap with Server 2008 R2 and PowerShell
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:08 PM

Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell

A couple of posts back I mentioned that I was working on a configuration library for Server 2008 R2 Core and Hyper-V Server R2 and this includes checking and setting the configuration for remote desktop. It turns out that this is controlled from just
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