PowerShell

At [06:25] Symon Perriman and Rick Claus talk through an end-to-end deploy of a Hyper-V cluster using entirely free tools (without any evaluation bits—you get to keep everything!). First Symon introduces the free tools, which include Hyper-V Server 2012 (http://microsoft.com/hvs), Microsoft…

Windows Development Manager Melur Raghuraman and team have taken troubleshooting and diagnostics to a whole new level in Windows 7. For one thing, Windows 7 uses managed code "natively" as PowerShell has become the de facto language used for creating diagnostic algorithms that live inside…

Welcome to another edition of Expert to Expert. Once again the venerable language master Erik Meijer leads the conversation. This time, we're lucky enough to have PowerShell creator and Partner Architect Jeffrey Snover. Jeffrey is really passionate about PowerShell and has…

ISV Architect Evangelist Patrick Foley explains why Windows 7 troubleshooting packs are so useful and demonstrates how easy it is to build one.Enjoy the show! John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect EvangelistMicrosoft…

Datacastle uses PowerShell to work with Hyper-V for quicker tests across many configurations and for quicker and improved deployment at customer sites. Datacastle Vice President of Quality Assurance Barry Preppernau talks with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how he uses PowerShell in…

What do you give to the architect that has everything? How about a grab bag of really good advice an interesting discussion with a very smart architect and fellow podcaster Scott Hanselman? This episode defies a single description because we covered so much ground but if you have ever listened…

In this final part, David shows how you can build a simple MMC Snapin using managed code, to host Windows PowerShell. The custom MMC view is created using a windows forms usercontrol, and provides custom actions for the listed services. The code used in the demo is available at…

In this 2nd part of 3, David builds upon part 1, by using the PSObject.BaseObject to access the strongly typed data.   Then you will see how to enable interaction between PowerShell and your GUI via a custom host, using PSHost and PSHostUserInterface.   The code used in the…

In this first of 3 parts, David demonstrates how you can host Windows PowerShell from a Windows Forms application using PowerShell's RunSpace classes and PSObject. Hosting Windows PowerShell in your own GUI allows you to create administration functionality in Windows PowerShell, giving you…

What happens when 2 of the coolest technologies meet each other? I saw this demo a few weeks back and just had to get it on the show. Danny Kim from Full Armor (an MS Partner) shows us what they were able to do using Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows PoweShell to drive IT…