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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 …
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 …
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 …
Within PowerShell it has always been easy to pass “simple” arguments to an EXE e.g.: C:\PS> ipconfig -all However passing arguments to certain exes can become surprising difficult when their command line parameter syntax is complex i.e. they require quotes and use special PowerShell …
You can grab the bits from here. If you have V3 CTP1 installed, please uninstall it first or you can get your machine into a bad state. So far my favorite two features new to this drop are both in the Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE). The first is the “most recently opened files list” …
Windows PowerShell version 3 introduces a simplified syntax for the Where-Object and Foreach-Object cmdlets. The simplified syntax shown below, eliminates the curly braces as well as the need for the special variable $_. C:\PS> Get-Process | Where PM -gt 100MB ... C:\PS> Get-Process | Foreach …
A little over a week ago we released PowerSE 2.5.3 to the web. You can download the latest release here. This release includes many great improvements to the PowerSE product, many of which were requested by you, so thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming! No time limit for freeware With …
I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1. This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. There are a number of bug fixes in this drop: 28023 Read-Archive : Cannot bind parameter ‘Path’. Cannot …
I always enjoy this time of year. There is something about the transition that happens over Labour Day weekend that always gets me excited. Maybe it"™s a lingering feeling of anticipation over the new year at school or university from years gone by, a feeling that I can still appreciate these …
Today was one of my most difficult days in my 7½+ year career at Quest Software. The same week that I was given a performance raise (I got that email on Monday), this afternoon I got a phone call from the director over my business unit letting me know that my position has been cut effective …
