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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:08 AM

PowerShell: the DMZ of Interop

Windows PowerShell is shaping up to be the technology around which IT Pros from *nix and Windows worlds meet and build community (virtualization will be another, IMO). Check out Bill's post on PowerShell on Port25 . Some nifty links there, such as: Interview
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:47 PM

Translating VBScript to Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell week has started. If you haven't signed up for the webcasts, you should run, not walk to the signup page . Completed casts are available on-demand - for example, yesterday's Day 1 intro cast , and QnA transcript. But wait, there's more.
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Monday, October 23, 2006 10:31 AM

Download Links to Windows PowerShell 1.0 RC2

There is a new page that has links and a FAQ explaining different language versions that are available. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx Windows PowerShell 1.0 Release Candidate 2 currently supports
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Monday, October 09, 2006 1:41 PM

Message Received and Understood

My manager attended a conference for technical content creators last week and brought back some interesting insights on tools, techniques and people issues. Her observations dovetail with some other recent conversations and reflections. For example, I
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:39 AM

Windows PowerShell Jumpstart

Here are some resources to get you started learning about PowerShell: M aterials to read PowerShell User Guide Scripting with Windows PowerShell Task-based Guide to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets TechCenter Sample Scripts Blogs Windows PowerShell Team Blog:
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Monday, October 02, 2006 5:38 PM

PowerOffVM: Script to stop a VM

Came across this today, handy little script for stopping a VM: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 'PowerOffVM() 'this function powers off a Virtual Machine '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Function PowerOffVM
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Monday, October 02, 2006 10:23 AM

PowerShell RC 2 Install Points

VMM Beta 1 has a dependency on Windows PowerShell RC 1.0. You can find the bits on the Connect site (which requires registration) at: https://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2492 The newest version of Windows PowerShell
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Friday, September 08, 2006 2:19 PM

How much free space is on my drive(s)?

Windows PowerShell guru Jim Truher has just blogged a nifty PowerShell way to check remaining free space on your drive when you are on the command line using the Get-WMIObject cmdlet. Check it out at Getting Disk Usage Information .
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