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• Technical Preview of the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider

  I'll admit I was disappointed by the fact that the IIS 7.0 development team stuck with AppCmd even after the decision was made to ship PowerShell with Windows Server 2008. I like AppCmd and all, it is a great tool; however why would they disrespect... Posted Apr 15 2008, 04:23 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008

• Quick PowerShell Tip using Get-MailboxStatistics

  I saw this question over on the Ask a Question Page at the Exchange Ninjas site and decided that I should spend time away from my backlog of other work and answer the question instead. Q: We need to get the users list from PowerShell sorting by database... Posted Feb 22 2008, 02:28 AM by Joel Stidley with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: PowerShell

• Microsoft Podcast on how Microsoft IT Implemented New Storage Designs for Exchange 2007

  Storage has changed a lot in Exchange Server 2007 from lower I/O requirements to no longer requiring shared storage for Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) clustering. This Podcast chronicles how Microsoft IT tackled these changes in there deployment... Posted Feb 05 2008, 01:54 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, Podcast

• PowerShell Browser Toolbar

  $hay from Script Fanatic created an all-in-one PowerShell Conduit toolbar for your browser. You can get the details here . May favorite feature is the Resources menu that lists books! (Notice the book second from the bottom) He does miss linking my blog... Posted Feb 05 2008, 01:21 AM by Joel Stidley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: PowerShell, toolbar

• Professional PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is now available

  Chances are if you read my blog either you are 1) my mother, 2) my manager trying to see how much time I spend on the site not meeting my deadlines or 3) interested in Exchange and PowerShell. If you fall into the latter you might be interested in reading... Posted Jan 17 2008, 10:48 PM by Joel Stidley with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Exchange 2007, PowerShell, Service Pack 1, books

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP released

  The PowerShell team released a Community Technology Preview of PowerShell 2.0 this week. They have had a number of posts over the last week about this new released. CTP != Beta (defines the supportability and state of the CTP) CTP: Platform Requirements... Posted Nov 09 2007, 05:44 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, beta

• Getting a list of AD Sites in PowerShell without the Exchange tools

  I got an e-mail today from a friend, he sent me this VB Script from the TechNet script center . Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strConfigurationNC = objRootDSE.Get("configurationNamingContext") strSitesContainer = "LDAP... Posted Sep 28 2007, 06:12 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, Active Directory

• PowerShell Webcast May 3, 2007

  For those of you that didn't see this on the PowerShell blog about this. There is a TechNet Webcast today at 1:30-3pm CT on Server Manager and Windows PowerShell in Windows Longhorn. To Register click here . Event Overview Join this webcast to discover... Posted May 03 2007, 02:48 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, webcast

• Wrox: Professional Windows PowerShell

  I had the opportunity to do a technical edit pass of this book by Andrew Watt . It is an excellent book to get you started and up to speed very quickly with Windows PowerShell. There are a ton of examples and screenshots that will help too. The book shippped... Posted Apr 16 2007, 12:42 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, book

• PowerShell to ship with Longhorn Server!

  Jeffrey Snover posted this announcement on the Microsoft PowerShell team blog today: And now for the biggie: At the Microsoft Management Summit in San Diego today we announced that Windows PowerShell will be included in Windows Server code-named “Longhorn... Posted Mar 28 2007, 01:39 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, Longhorn

• PowerShell 1.0 for Vista Released

  In the wake of Vista (and Office) being officially released today, the availablility of PowerShell 1.0 for x86 and x64 has been made announced on the PowerShell team's blog . To download Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista, please visit the following... Posted Jan 30 2007, 02:17 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, Vista

• TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007

  Be a geeky Jack Bauer and get ready for the new 24 season with 24 hours of Exchange 2007 training. Ok, its really nothing like "24" as it won't teach you how to hack cell phones or create global computer viruses intended to overload nuclear reactors.... Posted Jan 04 2007, 12:01 PM by Joel Stidley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Exchange 2007, UM, PowerShell, webcast

• The Exchange 2007 PowerShell Scriptacular demo pack

  Vivek Sharma and Mihai Jalobeanu posted the Exchange 2007 Scriptacular demo pack (volume 1 I presume). There are a variety of scripts that help in creating a demo enviroment as well as some useful and not so useful scripts. Download it here . Script Pack... Posted Dec 22 2006, 02:53 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, PowerShell

• Converting VBScript to PowerShell Reference

  Paul blogged about this this morning and I had to pass it along... For those of us that have had to make do with VBScript and are not getting around to upgrading our skill set we can use this hand-dandy reference to get us started. The web version of... Posted Dec 06 2006, 09:51 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell, VBScript

• Windows PowerShell 1.0 Documentation Pack

  Microsoft has posted a PowerShell documentation pack today. This has a Getting Started guide, a PowerShell Primer, a quick reference quad-fold brochure and the 1.0 release notes. This is a great place to start for the new PowerSheller. Download it here... Posted Dec 04 2006, 12:34 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: PowerShell