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Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and I wanted to offer a quick clarification on our book preorders. First, the PowerShell In Depth preorder is currently available, and there are up to 200 units offered through this preorder. You get a signed-by-all-three-of-us book and an exclusive video companion …
Microsoft has just announced, at its Worldwide Partner Conference, that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are on track to hit “Release to Manufacturing” the first week of August, with general product availability in October. That means PowerShell v3 will start becoming available in …
As most of you know, co-authors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and myself are offering a limited edition pre-order of our new PowerShell in Depth book. You can order from my company’s online store; you’re pre-ordering a book autographed by the three of us and bundled with a disc chock …
My co-authors and I have no less than three new PowerShell books coming out… and a couple of different way to get them. PowerShell In Depth This is meant to be a comprehensive, administrator-focused reference on all things PowerShell v3. It’s available directly from the publisher as …
So, I’d previously posted about a cool trick Jeffrey Snover demonstrated at TechEd: Get-Service -Name [a-b]* This will return a list of all services whose names start with A or B. Now for me, this was a cool trick: I didn’t realize that wildcards could be more than * or ?! And Snover …
Many sessions are now available on Channel 9 as recordings… First, mine: Crash Course w/Jeffrey Snover (one of the conference’s top-rated overall sessions) Crash Course repeat Building Reusable PowerShell Tools Remoting in Depth (another top-rated session!) But wait, there’s more! …
At this week’s TechEd, I was speaking with Jeffrey Snover in the hallway on Wednesday when he remarked, “you know, Write-Host isn’t all bad.” After he got someone to come around with smelling salts to revive me, he elaborated, “so long as your verb is Show.” I …
Hey, all! I was looking over the script I’d saved from this TechEd session, and realized I could offer something better. Go to the Web page for my upcoming “Toolmaking” book. In the Downloads section, grab the book’s code samples. You’ll actually get a better example …
One of the things administrators often look to do with PowerShell is “scrape” Web pages. In the past, you had a couple of options: Use Internet Explorer’s COM object (which can get a bit fugly), or use the .NET Framework’s WebRequest stuff (slightly less fugly, but still a …
I’ve written before about how PowerShell v3 won’t come with help “in the box,” but will instead require you to download help from Microsoft’s servers. ASIDE: Technically, any module author can provide updatable help on their own Web server; you just have to tag your …
