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• Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 - ready for download

  It's been a while, but the latest CTP for PowerShell V2 is available for free download!!! This is the latest 'beta' for PowerShell's Version 2. it rocks! Technorati tags: powershell PowerShellV2 Read More... Posted May 04 2008, 11:23 AM by Under The Stairs Filed under: PowerShell, powershell PowerShellV2

• Hey PowerShell Guy !, How Can I Retrieve All the Values in a Registry Key?

  Today's Hey Scripting Guy ! column , How Can I Retrieve All the Values in a Registry Key? , Shows a 38 line VbScript to get the Values in a registry key. In a PowerShell console it just takes this simple line to do the same : get-ItemProperty 'hkcu... Posted Apr 08 2008, 01:10 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Hey!

• Hey PowerShellGuy!,How Can I Check to See if Two Lines of Text are in a File and, If They Are Not, Append Those Lines to the File?

  How Can I Check to See if Two Lines of Text are in a File and, If They Are Not, Append Those Lines to the File? Translation to PowerShell of a Hey, Scripting Guy! column that shows you how to check a text file for specific lines containing double quote... Posted Apr 07 2008, 05:16 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Hey!

• Hey PowerShell Guy !,How Can I Separate The Month From the Year in a Date String Like 122007?

  How Can I Separate The Month From the Year in a Date String Like 122007? [datetime]::ParseExact(122007,'Myyyy',$null) | ft Month,Year You can see you can use ParseExact to convert a custom format to d dateTime OBject from there it is simple of... Posted Apr 04 2008, 08:11 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, DateTime, Hey!

• Hey PowerShellGuy !, How Can I Determine the Currency Symbol in Use on a Computer?

  From the Scripting Son article : How Can I Determine the Currency Symbol in Use on a Computer? 3 ways to do the same in PowerShell : (gp 'hkcu:\Control panel\International').sCurrency (get-culture).NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol '{0:c}' Read... Posted Apr 04 2008, 07:33 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Hey!, Registry

• 2008 Winter Scripting Games: Advanced Windows PowerShell Event 6 Solution

  Some time ago, I got asked to submit an answer to one of the scripting games challenges. I agreed, thinking I'd get a meaty admin puzzle to work on. Instead, I got a more classic computing problem - calculating prime numbers. Turns out there's... Posted Mar 29 2008, 08:12 AM by Under The Stairs Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting games

• PowerShell WMI explorer update for PowerShell V2 CTP

  I got a question from Dee about using alternate credentials with my PowerShell WMI Explorer . This is not possible in version 1.0 of PowerShell because of a bug in the WMI adapter, hence I removed this from my PowerShell WMI explorer also at that time... Posted Mar 05 2008, 05:16 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, WMI Explorer

• IT HerOlympics update

  Tomorrow is the Microsoft IT herolympics event in the Netherlands, I already mentioned that here that I would do a PowerShell instructor led Lab on this event, but next to this ILL, I will also provide a "PowerShell Unplugged" session, this... Posted Mar 05 2008, 03:49 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Event

• Russian PowerShell livemeeting recording with Xaegr

  I was watching the livemeeting from Vasily Gusevym (Xaegr) , the download can be found here ( take the left button after your profile information, as google translate did not work on this site it took me a while to find out how to get to the download... Posted Mar 05 2008, 09:06 AM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Video, liveMeeting

• PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 20

  Pfff, scripting games 2008 over and all solutions posted , let's rest back and listen to the new PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 20   Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More... Posted Mar 03 2008, 03:12 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Podcast

• Scripting Games 2008 Beginners Windows PowerShell Event 10

  And to end the series with solutions, Beginners event 10, this was a nice one, I started out with a straight loop but to handle 2 or 3 strikes in a row I considered that it might be easier to look back and forwards in the array. a Pro was that this would... Posted Mar 03 2008, 03:04 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting games

• Scripting Games 2008 Beginners Windows PowerShell Event 9

  My solution for Event 9 in the beginners competition, as Jaykul already noted here : 2008 Scripting Games - Solution for Advanced Event 2 , when working with ADO in PowerShell it's much better to use .NET to connect to a database as the COM objects... Posted Mar 03 2008, 02:42 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting games

• Scripting Games 2008 Advanced Windows PowerShell Event 9

  My solution for event 9 :   (gc c:\scripts\alice.txt |% { $_ .split()} |% { $_ [ - 1 ..( - $_ .length)] - join '' }) - join ' ' Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More... Posted Mar 03 2008, 01:35 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting games

• Scripting Games 2008 Advanced Windows PowerShell Event 10

  My Windows PowerShell solution for event 10 is posted on the scriptcenter. By accident ( I did send a "preview" version to confuse the scripting guys check if format was right), it was not the latest version that got posted, I made some small... Posted Mar 03 2008, 01:28 PM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Scripting games

• MTC Technology Briefing for February 29, 2008: What's Up With PowerShell

  3 videos of a "roundtable" podcast, also featuring PowerShell MTC Technology Briefing for February 29, 2008: What's Up With PowerShell Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More... Posted Mar 01 2008, 05:34 AM by The PowerShell Guy Filed under: PowerShell, Video