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With the release we published yesterday, both PowerSE and PowerWF received a new feature: product-specific profiles.  This feature allows you to have profile scripts that you only want run in PowerSE or PowerWF run there so that you don’t have to use if statements to check the host name in your profile scripts.  With this [...]

This morning PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 were released to the web and they can now be downloaded from http://www.powerwf.com.  These releases offer a lot of new value to PowerWF and PowerSE users, as follows: PowerWF 2.7 Highlights New Start Page with New Workflows The start page in PowerWF has been completely redesigned to provide immediate [...]

Recently there was a discussion between community experts and a product team about a module they are working on.  The topic being discussed was cmdlet aliases: whether or not they should provide aliases for their cmdlets out of the box and if so, how they should be provided.  Aliases are great for ad-hoc PowerShell work, [...]

Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year.  Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I’m quite thrilled about this one because it’s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP).  Thanks to the community for being [...]

Today is car pool day.   Only problem is somebody at work took that literally and I’m squished in the back seat of a Compact with a “Mr. Turtle” pool. So I promised to show you one of the cooler Cmdlets I ran into, EXPORT-CSV. Ok, so what if I told you I could give you a line in Powershell you could run on a staff member’s computer to ...

Ok feeling better today.   Today we’re going to quickly touch on “Objects”. Now before all of you IT Pros go running into a corner screaming and casting oil slicks beyond you, we are NOT opening up Visual Studio.   But we are going to touch lightly on a topic that is important to be aware of when using ...

“Aaaaaachoo!” Sorry got as cold today.  But we can still chat right? Today we’re going to learn about Variables in Powershell.   Ok don’t run away.  I’m not going to get all Developer on you and starting speaking in Tongues and spout Functions and code. We’re going to use Variables for the moment the same way we did in ...

Hello, back on the grid again.  literally.   It appears that “Somebody” decided that redirecting all the traffic down a one lane residential street was a good idea.  So I’m stuck for a bit.  We can talk. Being that I have Time on my hands I think today we’ll talk about time in Powershell.   It IS far cooler than ...

Oh hey.  Back again are you?  Good thing too.  Flat tire so I’m stuck on side while the Tow Truck driver changes my tire…. So let me take a few minutes today and show you a pretty cool Cmdlet called GET-CHILDITEM. If you remember a bit back, I showed you how typing DIR executes a GET-CHILDITEM. So you might think “Ah! ...

Traffic was rotten today so I’m sitting in a coffee shop.  Don’t tell the boss ok? So last time I mumbled something or other about Aliases and did a Wave of my hands to make you look the other way.  No ? I didn’t do that?  Darn Jedi mind tricks. So we mentioned Aliases.    Those familiar with the Unix world will ...