Monthly Archives: March 2008

Many of the PowerShell cmdlets are given aliases that correspond to Unix commands.  One of the standard Unix commands that seems to be missing is grep.  In this post Jeffrey explains how Select-String supplies that functionality and then some. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/03/23/select-string-and-grep.aspx … Continue reading →

James has picked up on the fact that standard Tab expansion in PowerShell V1 doesn’t pick up functions.  He has modified the PowerShell Community Extensions Tab Expansion function   (now that is a mouthful  – next Scripting Games challenge is to … Continue reading →

In this post http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!290.entry I showed how the restriction on automating Excel due to using non USA locales could be overcome.  I gave an example of adding a workbook to Excel.  There are a number of posts leading up to … Continue reading →

In this post – http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1188.entry – I referred to the VMWare PowerShell cmdlets for VI This kit is available for download from http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/windows_toolkit It is currently still marked as beta and contains 102 cmdlets for managing VMWare.  This will get … Continue reading →

If you have not seen the warning posted on the PowerShell Team blog concerning the fate of ANY modifications to the PowerShell installed XML files when V2 is installed you must read this. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/03/22/never-modify-powershell-s-xml-files.aspx In other words if you have … Continue reading →

One method of digging into the updates applied to your system is via the Windows Update History.  This can be accessed as follows $session = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session$search = $session.CreateUpdateSearcher()$count = $search.GetTotalHistoryCount()$history = $search.QueryHistory(1, $count)$history | Select Title, Date, Description … Continue reading →

I picked up a copy of Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide by Ed Wilson (MS Press) at the launch event earlier in the week.  Can’t wait to try the flashing bunny script but that’s a different story.  I write a full … Continue reading →

Dmitry has done it again.  The latest PowerGUI has VBScript to PowerShell conversion functionality – see http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/ Share this post :