Monthly Archives: March 2007

The Advanced PowerShell Scripting presentation from MMS is available here   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/30/mms2007-sw10-advanced-powershell-scripting.aspx

I have taken the network addresses script a stage further – adding a function to calculate the next IP address and a loop to control the production of the list of IP addresses   #### To calculate first and last … Continue reading →

As a follow up to yesterdays post about deriving first and last IP addresses for a subnet Gaurhoth has posted a solution that also derives the full list of IP addresses.    http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/gaurhoth/archive/2007/03/29/finding-a-range-of-ip-addresses.aspx   There is a lot of binary … Continue reading →

The slides and demo scripts from the Powershell talks at Mirosoft Management Summit are availabe for download   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/28/mms2007-managing-systems-using-powershell.aspx   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/29/mms2007-sw09-extending-powershell-mananaging-a-production-website-using-powershell.aspx    

In a post in the Microsoft newsgroup a question was asked about converting a network address such as 10.0.0.0/24 and getting the IP addresses to pass into a ping command. The discussion included all sorts of references to use the … Continue reading →

One of the greatest strengths of PowerShell is the pipeline. Pipelines have existed in shells for many years from the simple pipelining abilities in DOS to the sophisticated use of the pipeline in *nix. PowerShell is different from previous shells … Continue reading →

Check the PowerShell Team blog for this announcement   http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/28/announced-powershell-to-ship-in-windows-server-longhorn.aspx   PowerShell will ship as part of Longhorn Server.  As it comes as part of the Operating System there is more incentive than ever to start learning PowerShell.  It does … Continue reading →

Redmond magazine are looking to do a review on PowerShell.  If you want to add your opinion the feedback form is here   ** What’s Your Take on Microsoft Windows PowerShell?If you’ve delved into PowerShell, we want to hear from … Continue reading →