A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
News
- New PowerShell book in the works "Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide" by Lee Holmes' (a developer on the PowerShell team) from O'Reilly they have an early access program http://shrinkster.com/p8l
- Windows Server 2008
- AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released - http://shrinkster.com/p8e
- Support for Vista and Server 2008
- You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts
- Dmitry's PowerBlog - http://shrinkster.com/p8d
Cmdlets of the week
- Get-content (GC, type, cat)
- Format-List (FL)
- Format-Table(FT)
Resource
- Free PowerShell ebook
- Published by Microsoft Switzerland and recently translated into English due to it's great popularity
- Subtitle is "An introduction to scripting technologies for people with no real background knowledge"
- 44 pages
- http://shrinkster.com/pau
- Jeffery Snover did a interview on the Microsoft Watch podcast http://shrinkster.com/par
- 800,000 downloads of PowerShell
- Technet Article "Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell" http://shrinkster.com/pas
- From the same May 2007 issue Don Jones article about PS and WMI http://shrinkster.com/pat
Tips
- Get started now, jump in - PowerShell is your hammer and you are looking for nails
- Go through the free manual, work the labs
One-liners
- $time = [datetime]::now
- $time | gm  there is a method called addDays
- $time.addDays(-90)
- [datetime]::now.addDays(-90) - we are calling the static member "Now" from the type literal [datetime] to see this use [datetime] | gm -static you will see things like "now" and "today"
- or you could use (get-date).adddays(-90)
Powershell challenge
- Use PowerShell to find all of the files or folders in the current directory where System does not have Full Control
