I know there was some concern related to my departure from SAPIEN about the status of the Windows PowerShell: TFM book. You’ll be happy to know that Don Jones and I are both involved now in the final revisions. SAPIEN is very committed to this project and supporting the PowerShell community and I’m very happy…
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Summary Judgment
While working on a new article for REDMOND magazine about PowerShell 2.0, I wanted to get some cmdlet information. I wanted an easy way to see a list of cmdlets for a given verb or noun. Of course that is easily done with Get-Command. However this only gives my the definition.
After a little experimenting I found that I could get the help synopsis with the actual Get-Help cmdlet, not the Help function. So combining the two gives me the results I need.
Friendly WMI Dates
Gee..you think you know something only to find out you don’t. Or maybe this falls into the category of teaching an old dog new tricks.
When I first started using PowerShell several years ago, I learned about how to convert a WMI date to a more user friendly format…
PrimalForms 2009 Now Available
SAPIEN Technologies finally released PrimalForms 2009. If you have any sort of requirement to create a graphical interface to your PowerShell script, this is the tool to get. SAPIEN will continue to offer the free community version of Primal Forms from their community tools page. PrimalForms 2009 includes these features: Visually build sophisticated Windows forms…
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group
Joel “Jaykul” Bennett, a new PowerShell MVP from Rochester and the mastermind behind HuddledMasses.org and PoshCode.com, and I have joined forces to start the Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group. We hope the group will serve anyone interested in Windows PowerShell from Syracuse to Buffalo, although points east and further south and certainly invited. The first…
Microsoft MVP 3rd edition
I’m happy to report that I am again a Microsoft MVP for PowerShell the 3rd year in a row. This is always a nerve wracking time of year where I wonder if I did enough for the community and think about what else I could have done. Now I have another year to continue to…
Reboot and Reload
After a terrific few years at SAPIEN Technologies, I’m back on my own. This site will be my new home. I’ve revamped the title, but I think it more accurately describes my subject matter. Even though I write extensively about scripting and PowerShell, which I’ll continue to do, the topic is really a means to…
Printing from PowerShell
PowerShell has a slick feature that allows you to send the output from a cmdlet or expression directly to a printer. Pipe the output to the Out-Printer cmdlet and it will print out on the default printer: get-process | out-printer If you have other printers installed you can use the printer name. For example, I…