FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Back in the days when our hair was on fire with security issues, we brought in a number of industry experts to educate us on developing secure software. This resulted in the Security Development Lifecycle which all our products now use. One of the best talks was a from ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Sean Kearney (aka Ye110beard of Highway to PowersHell fame ) sent me a pointer to a fun video which posits that maybe W7 is TOO good. Just maybe it is so good that it will put IT Pros out of business. I think the exact opposite is true ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Today I got the question
I’ve looked into all of my.format.ps1xml files but I can’t find out where Format-List is getting its default view for, say, System.Diagnostics.Process:
PS> ps |select -first 1 |fl
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FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Since Windows Management Framework was released Oct. 2009, our customers have been excited about using PowerShell 2.0 on down-level OSes. Meanwhile, we also received feedback from both internal and external customers about our product issues. One of them is WMF install failure followed by the mysterious ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
One question we sometimes get asked is why Exchange changes PowerShell’s execution policy from “Restricted” to “RemoteSigned.” Doesn’t that lower PowerShell’s security?
The "Restricted" execution policy isn't intended to be something that PowerShell users live with forever. It's a safe default that protects non PowerShell users from being impacted by PowerShell-based ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Recently, I came across an interesting bug in PowerShell. Let’s create a repro.
First, we create a string “a” and generate an xml based representation of it using the Export-Clixml cmdlet. Since we need to have the class id, we pipe the string to format-table as shown in the ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
One feature of the NTFS file system is the junction, which is similar to a short cut but works at the file system level. This lets you link one directory to another. There’s a tool called ‘junction’ available here that lets you manipulate junctions.
When listing the contents ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
The Windows PowerShell core help files that were included in Windows 7 RTM were localized into ten languages. You can download the XML and TXT versions of these localized files and use them in your Windows PowerShell projects.
The Windows PowerShell core help files are ...
FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
Slides for the two PDC 09 sessions - SVR12 and SVR13 attached. Enjoy
Cheers
Nana [MSFT]
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FROM: Windows PowerShell Blog
99 podcasts of Pure Power. That’s what the PowerScripting Podcast has been churning out for almost three years! Well, this week is extra special, as you might imagine from the title of this post. On Thursday, they record episode one hundred: a huge milestone by any means. A ...