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Join-Object
Problem: How do I join two lists of objects into a single list? Or the equivalent: How do I join two CSV files into a single one? Note that joining makes sense only when the two lists or CSV files have...
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Windows PowerShell Web Access - Installation guide II
This blog is a continuation of the post on Basic installation guide for PowerShell Web Access. In the basic installation blog, we configured IIS with the default values used by the...
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New-Workflow –MakeItEasy: Authoring Workflows using PowerShell Extended Syntax
Some time back, in his blog post, Jeffrey Snover introduced one of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature – Windows PowerShell Workflow. In that post, you saw a glimpse of how to author workflows using...
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Introduction to CIM Cmdlets
PowerShell 3.0 shipping with Windows server 2012 and Windows 8 brings a new set of Cmdlets to manage any server or device that complies with CIM and WS-Man standards defined by DMTF. In this blog post...
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Managing Hardware devices from PowerShell
Steve did a very cool blog post last month about managing hardware that implements standard DMTF profiles (examples: Intel AMT , Broadcom TruManage )...
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Windows Management Framework 3.0 Available for Download
We hope that you’ve been enjoying all of the great new Windows PowerShell 3.0 features in Windows Server 2012. We wanted to make sure that everyone knows the final release of Windows Management...
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Joining Multiple Tables, Grouping and Evaluating Totals
Joining Multiple Tables, Grouping And Evaluating Totals This is a continuation to the Join-Object blog post considering multiple joins and SQL style grouping and total evaluation. Problem: In the...
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WMI cheat sheet for PS users
Hi,We got multiple requests to publish the cheat sheet for CIM Cmdlets that was distributed in Tech Ed NA this year. Responding to popular demand, this document is attached as PDF . This is a great...
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Windows Management Framework 3.0 Compatibility Update
Windows Management Framework (WMF) 3.0, (currently distributed as KB2506146 for Windows Server 2008 SP2 and KB2506143, for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) has been temporarily removed...
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Updatable Help speaks only English! What’s up with that?
Our customers have certainly not been shy about their interest in multiple languages of Windows PowerShell Updatable Help, and we're grateful to hear how much they would value localized Help. Our...
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First German PowerShell Community Conference
We are delighted to broadcast that the community will hold the first German PowerShell Community Conference on April 10 and 11, 2013 in Oberhausen, Germany. As shown by the “sold out” PowerShell...
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Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack
We're pleased to announce the availability of the Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack. For Windows PowerShell 3.0, the SDK samples work a little differently than in previous releases of Windows...
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Microsoft Script Explorer: Next Steps
For those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven't released additional updates to it since we published the release candidate (RC) in August...
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Understanding PowerShell's Type Conversion Magic
Type Conversion in PowerShell is, without question, one of the most useful ingredients in its "Magic Sauce" of administrator effectiveness. When you run a command with a specific parameter type (I.e.:...
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Intellisense in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0
This blog post applies to the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The ISE is also fully supported and available when Server 2012 is deployed...
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New V3 Language Features
We’ve already discussed the biggest new PowerShell language feature – workflows – in a previous post. In this post, I’m going to describe a number of small changes we’ve made to the language. Most of...
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High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 1)
1 SummaryIn March we introduced Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSWF), which explained why we integrated workflows with PowerShell, and what were our major investment areas for our first release. In a...
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High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 2)
This is the second part of our post on the high level architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow. Part 1 of this blog post provided an overview of the architecture and its various components. This...
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Running show-command to discover cmdlets
This blog post applies to the Windows PowerShell Version 3.0. Problem: How can I find out what cmdlets are available for a given task? Finding cmdlets in the traditional way If you know the basics of...
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Improving the FileSystem Provider through Community feedback
One of the things we love about the Windows PowerShell community is that folks are not shy. It turns out that having a vocal community is a great way to build and evangelize a product like ours. Of...
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