Automating the world one-liner at a time…
March 30, 2009Mar 30, 200903/30/09The other week, I showed a Get-ProgID function that I used to help someone at Microsoft Research find a good object to talk to images. A few comments jumped to one of the possible solutions, which is to use the .NET Drawing assembly (which I have to load first).
March 30, 2009Mar 30, 200903/30/09Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn’t just add ADPowershell – it also adds Active Directory Administrative Center (or ADAC), a new GUI tool for AD administrators. Read about it on TechNet. What’s more, while you can’t tell just from looking at it,
March 27, 2009Mar 27, 200903/27/09Have you ever created scriptblocks on the fly, say in a foreach loop, and they totally mess up because they all have the same value?
This is something sort of advanced, and typically used when you’re proxying an object.
The most basic example would be,
March 26, 2009Mar 26, 200903/26/09With Add-Type and $executioncontext you can add special varibles that have tied values.
I made $random, and $now
add-type @”using System;using System.Management.Automation;public class RandomVariable : PSVariable{Random r;public RandomVariable () : base(“Random”, 0, ScopedItemOptions.ReadOnly | ScopedItemOptions.AllScope) {r = new Random();}
public override object Value
March 20, 2009Mar 20, 200903/20/09The other day, a friend over in Microsoft Research wanted to figure out how to get out the width and height of an image in PowerShell. There are many ways that you can approach this particular problem. I knew three right off of the top of my head,
March 20, 2009Mar 20, 200903/20/09AD team has started a new blog for their PowerShell Cmdlets.. In their own words “We are here to answer any questions about AD Powershell, share some tips and tricks, discuss the history behind certain decisions and features and hear your feedback on improving AD Powershell experience”
March 16, 2009Mar 16, 200903/16/09Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/de/snover/default.mspx
One of the biggest Snoopy Dance moments of my life!
BTW – this is really a reflection of how important Microsoft views PowerShell.
I’d love to say more but I’ve got some Snoopy Dancing to do.
March 13, 2009Mar 13, 200903/13/09In cmd, listing files based on attributes was simple:
only directories
dir /a:d
only files (no directories)
dir /a:-d
only hidden files
dir /a:h
In PowerShell, it’s not so easy:
only directories
dir | ? { $_.PSIsContainer }
only files (no directories)
dir | ?
March 11, 2009Mar 11, 200903/11/09A couple months ago we asked our MVPs how they felt about reserving keywords in V2. We received some excellent but mixed feedback, so we’d like to open the discussion up a bit wider.
There are keywords we hope to use in a future version of PowerShell,
March 11, 2009Mar 11, 200903/11/09It has been more than one year since we updated Out-GridView feature with you. In case you are not familiar with Out-GridView yet, it is a unique PowerShell cmdlet that users can pipe command output to a separate window, and it enables users organize and analyze output data easily.
