A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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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

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Windows Server 2008

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AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released - http://shrinkster.com/p8e

Support for Vista and Server 2008

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You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts

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Dmitry’s PowerBlog - http://shrinkster.com/p8d

Cmdlets of the week

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Get-content (GC, type, cat)

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Format-List (FL)

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Format-Table(FT)

Resource

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Free PowerShell ebook

Published by Microsoft Switzerland and recently translated into English due to it’s great popularity

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Subtitle is “An introduction to scripting technologies for people with no real background knowledge”

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44 pages

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http://shrinkster.com/pau ](http://shrinkster.com/pau)

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Jeffery Snover did a interview on the Microsoft Watch podcast http://shrinkster.com/par

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800,000 downloads of PowerShell

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Technet Article “Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell” http://shrinkster.com/pas

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From the same May 2007 issue Don Jones article about PS and WMI http://shrinkster.com/pat

Tips

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Get started now, jump in - PowerShell is your hammer and you are looking for nails

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Go through the free manual, work the labs

One-liners

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$time = [datetime]::now

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$time | gm   there is a method called addDays

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$time.addDays(-90)

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[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”

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or you could use (get-date).adddays(-90)

Powershell challenge

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Use PowerShell to find all of the files or folders in the current directory where System does not have Full Control