the dfo show - Channel 9

The DFO Show - Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 3

DavidAiken — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:46:16 GMT

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 http://blogs.msdn.com/daiken/archive/2007/06/22/hosting-windows-powershell-sample-code.aspx.

The DFO Show - Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 2

DavidAiken — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:51:51 GMT

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 demo is available at http://blogs.msdn.com/daiken/archive/2007/06/22/hosting-windows-powershell-sample-code.aspx.

The DFO Show - Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 1

DavidAiken — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:03:01 GMT

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 command line and automation via scripting, then call this functionality from you GUI giving the administrator everything they need.:D

The DFO Show - Implementing a Health Model with the Visual Studio Management Model Designer

DavidAiken — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:59:46 GMT

In this show David shows you how, once you have designed your health model, you can easily generate the implementation code using the new Visual Studio Management Model Designer (VSMMD), available from codeplex at http:.//www.codeplex.com/dfo.

The DFO Show - Designing a Health Model with the Visual Studio Management Model Designer

DavidAiken — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:16:50 GMT

Health models are an important part of building manageable applications.

In this show David shows you how to capture the details of a health model in the new Visual Studio Management Model Designer (VSMMD), available from codeplex at http:.//www.codeplex.com/dfo.

In the next show, i'll demonstrate how the implementation code is generated.

The DFO Show - Windows Workflow Foundation meets Windows PowerShell

DavidAiken — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:12:47 GMT

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 Operations.

In the demo we use Windows PowerShell to find all our IIS 7 web servers from Active Directory. Then, we create some new sites and populate them with content. All using PowerShell, all driven via Windows Workflow Foundation.

Find out more about what we did from http://www.fullarmor.com/labs-workflow-studio.htm and grab the code from http://blogs.msdn.com/daiken

The DFO Show - Using the Windows PowerShell Visual Studio Templates

DavidAiken — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:22:43 GMT

In this show, I'll show you how to use the Visual Studio Templates I created to help you build Windows PowerShell CmdLets. You can download the templates from In this show, we take a look at some more Windows PowerShell Cmdlets and how we can use Windows PowerShell to easily manage Windows Vista.

Jeffrey Snover and I have written up a blog post on this show that is available on the Windows Vista Team blog. You can see the commands used in this show on that blog at http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/14/it-forum-day-one-windows-vista-and-windows-powershell.aspx.

The DFO Show - Amazon S3 meets Windows PowerShell

DavidAiken — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:09:58 GMT

In this episode, David shows you how you can build a simple set of Windows PowerShell cmdlts to access the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). http://www.amazon.com/s3

The Cmdlets show how to implement parameters; support pipeline operations; support confirm, whatif, debug and verbose switches; provide type and formatting metadata as well as help.

The source code shown in the demo will be available soon.

The DFO Show - Use Enterprise Library Management Extensions CTP to Group Policy and WMI enabled your

DavidAiken — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:56:00 GMT

In this episode, see how you can add WMI and Group Policy support to your applications using the brand new Manageability Extensions CTP.

Exposing application configuration via WMI allows WMI-aware management applications to query your application configuration. You can now do it using Enterprise Library without writing a single line of code!

Group Policy enables administrators to change application configuration on computers across the enterprise. Change your database, exception handling or logging configuration in one easy move using Enterprise Librarys new Group Policy Support.

Get the Manageabillity Extensions CTP from http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=295a464a-6072-4e25-94e2-91be63527327

The DFO Show - Web Sites and Services MP

DavidAiken — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:44:01 GMT

In this episode, David takes a look at the Microsoft Web Sites and Services MP.

The Microsoft Web Sites and Services MP allows you to "replay" requests to web services or sites and raise alerts based upon the results.

Setting this up to test your web services is a piece of cake, and will allow you to spot and fix problems before your customers call.

Download the Web Sites and Services MP.

The DFO Show - Introducing Windows PowerShell

DavidAiken — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:27:55 GMT

In this first of several shows focusing on Windows PowerShell, architect evangelist David Aiken shows some basic "getting started" commands in Windows PowerShell.
The show covers help, basic cmdlet usage, formatting, objects, navigation and safety.

The DFO Show - Building Manageable Apps

DavidAiken — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:53:04 GMT

Spending more time supporting your old apps and not enough time developing new apps?

In this first episode, you will see a typical LOB application, with little thought about operations and management, get a "Design For Operations" make-over, including management modeling, instrumentation, WMI and WS-Management.