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I’m informed that sometime today Microsoft will be posting fixed core cmdlet help files for your downloading pleasure - so it’s safe to run Update-Help again, and you should definitely do so. There are likely a lot of fixes and improvements to the help text, and you won’t be …
Here’s an easy, low-stakes debate: How do you like to format your scripting constructs? And, more importantly, why do you like your method? For example, I tend to do this: `If ($this -eq $that) { do this } else { do this } `I do so out of long habit with C-like syntax, and because when …
Through my company Concentrated Tech, I’ve decided to run a set of three PowerShell Summer School classes (click that link for descriptions). These will be a combo of self-study and weekly online sessions, designed to teach Toolmaking, Practical applications of PowerShell, or how to teach …
The PowerShell.org TechLetter goes out once a month, and we’re looking for an editor to take over the task of building each monthly issue. You’ll need some basic HTML knowledge, and ideally will have a decent HTML editor. Not FrontPage. You’ll be given articles in both HTML and …
UPDATE 2 JULY 2013: Microsoft is informing MVPs that the fix is in, and new help files should be downloadable by (at latest) the morning of 3 July 2013. So get your Update-Help ready to run. More info. If you haven’t recently run Update-Help… don’t. There’s a problem with …
At his Birds of a feather session at TechEd 2013, Glenn Sizemore and I briefly debated something that I’d like to make the topic of today’s Great Debate. It has to do with how you create new, custom objects. For example, one approach - which I used to favor, but now think is too …
When I teach PowerShell classes, I often start by assuring students that, with the shell, you can _accomplish a great deal without ever writing a script. _And it’s true - you can. Unlike predecessor technologies like VBScript, PowerShell lets you pack a lot of goodness into a one-liner - or …
Hot on the heels of our last Great Debate, let’s take the discussion to the next logical step and talk about how you like to capture errors when they occur. The first technique is to use -ErrorVariable: `Try { Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp nothing -ea stop -ev mine } Catch { use $mine for …
Please join us on a special date in July. This month our meeting will be on July 11, 2013 instead of our normal first Thursday of the month due to the holiday. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson will make a presentation on DSC Desired State Configuration for PowerShell V4. Sign up at the following …
In the aftermath of The Scripting Games, it’s clear we need to have several community discussions - thus, I present to you, The Great Debates. These will be a series of posts wherein I’ll outline the basic situation, and you’re encouraged to debate and discuss in the comments …
