No PowerShell at LISA

Steve LeeJune 29, 2007Jun 29, 200706/29/07

If you were thinking about attending a PowerShell talk at LISA (Large Installation System Administration conference), the answer is NO. Someone suggested that the attendee’s of this conference would love a PowerShell talk so I submitted my Monad Manifesto as a draft with the thinking was that I would bring that paper up to date,

Free PowerGadgets

Steve LeeJune 29, 2007Jun 29, 200706/29/07

That got your attention didn’t it?
The guys over at PowerGadgets have introduced a PowerGadgets MVP Program. It sounds like it is modeled a bit after the Microsoft MVP program where if you are influential within the community, you get treated really nice (read free software).

Do You Really Want To Use –EQ?

Steve LeeJune 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07

Sebastien posted a cool simple script HERE which effectively does a reverse lookup on aliases. Here is the code:
function Get-AliasShortcut([string]$CommandName) {
ls Alias: | ?{ $_.Definition -eq $CommandName }
}
Set-Alias gas Get-AliasShortcut
Notice that he used –EQ. Whenever you find yourself using –EQ,

Heterogeneous Job Scheduling With PowerShell

Steve LeeJune 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07

JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. It now provides full PowerShell support. What does that mean? They say that they support PowerShell in three ways:
JAMS-specific PowerShell host to tightly control scripts under JAMs.

Heterogeneous Job Scheduling With PowerShell

Steve LeeJune 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07

JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. It now provides full PowerShell support. What does that mean? They say that they support PowerShell in three ways:
JAMS-specific PowerShell host to tightly control scripts under JAMs.

Partying with Join-Path

Steve LeeJune 28, 2007Jun 28, 200706/28/07

Did you realize that you can Join-Path can work on multiple items?
PSGet-Help Join-Path -parameter *path
-path
Specifies the main path (or paths) to which the child-path is appended.
Wildcards are permitted.
The value of Path determines which provider joins the paths and adds th
e path delimiters.

Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 2 of 3

Steve LeeJune 27, 2007Jun 27, 200706/27/07

David Aiken is at it again. In his latest segment of the DFO show – Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 2, he converts the code he produced in Part 1 to use strong types by casting the PSObject.BaseObject. From there, he add the ability to select one the SERVICEs he displays and then to Stop it using the Stop-Service cmdlet.

Surfing the Web the PowerShell Way

Steve LeeJune 26, 2007Jun 26, 200706/26/07

I spend a lot of my time in the command line (surprised?). That said, I also spend a lot of time surfing the web. Here is a script that I wrote that lets me surf the web from PowerShell:
UrlTemplateMap = @{
“bs”

Why Isn’t PowerShell.exe Authenticode Signed?

Steve LeeJune 26, 2007Jun 26, 200706/26/07

This question came up on our internal forum last week, and Jeffrey, knowing of my sharp wit and keen hand for prose, asked me to blog about the answer. So here goes:
It is Authenticode signed. Just in a special way.

VBScript -> PowerShell

Steve LeeJune 24, 2007Jun 24, 200706/24/07

Are you a VBscripter in the process of becoming a PowerShell scripter? Once you become a PowerShell scripter, you’ll find incredible gains in productivity but first you have to becoming a PowerShell scripter. There are a few things that can help.