PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.
At our first annual Shareholders Meeting (shareholders will receive an e-mail from me later this week about that meeting), we will be voting on our Board of Directors. Our corporate articles permit our existing Board members to serve indefinitely, and so all are automatically re-nominated. The …
We’ll be updating this post as presenters turn over materials to us. Most of these files will be ZIPs. If there are any session materials missing - please be patient (we’re uploading as quickly as we can), or contact the presenter directly (as they may not have provided materials to us …
If you are attending the PowerShell Summit next week in Redmond, you might want to make sure you have copies of the schedule on hand. There are two tracks, and I have created two pdf documents, one for each track, that provide the full schedule including session abstracts and speaker bios. …
Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with over 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency.He works today as an independent …
I want to direct your attention to this forums post, which I think is worth anyone’s time to look through. I’ve left a pretty long reply with some comments on the entry that would also be worth a read. I find that a LOT of folks - like the gentleman who posted his script - have a really …
If you’re participating in the Scripting Games, log on to the Scripting Games Web site and check out your Profile page. You’ll find a redemption code that can be used to unlock a Participant achievement on the main PowerShell.org Web site!
As you probably know, we’ve been running a survey for PowerShell.org, which helps us both improve the site and create demographic information that makes us appealing to sponsors (who, you know, pay for everything here). We’ve gotten a ton of great feedback. Yeah, we really are reading …
As you may be aware, we posted Practice Events for the 2013 Scripting Games, in an effort to give people an idea of what the events would look like and involve. There’s been a lively discussion in the PowerShell.org forums about the Beginner Practice, so I thought I’d weigh in. …
Please make sure you’re following this announcements category as you travel to, and attend, the Summit. It’s the best way for us to get out late-breaking news. Registration begins at 8am on Monday, April 22nd, in the lobby of Building 40. Now, sometimes the lobby doors open a wee bit …
I’m putting together a list of common “gotchas” for PowerShell, mainly things that affect newcomers. So far, I’ve got: Piping the output of a Format cmdlet to nearly anything else Using -contains instead of -like Selecting a subset of object properties and then trying to …
