-
Microsoft has had a 3-day instructor lead PowerShell course available for a few months now. ( 6434: Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell ). I can say with authority that it is an excellent course with a ton of detail. I highly recommend it. I ran across another PowerShell...
-
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 (or diss for those down with the young peeps) PowerShell...
-
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 , mailboxsize & lastlogontime ( those who have...
-
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. Overview How does Exchange Server 2007 enable a...
-
$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 and site in his toolbar but I would suspect its...
-
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 Professional PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007...
-
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 (requirements for running the CTP CTP: Versioning...
-
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://cn=Sites," & strConfigurationNC...
-
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 the new features Server Manager provides in Windows...
-
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 April 23, 2007, be sure to order it ! Professional...
-
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” and will be available in Beta 3 of “Longhorn...
-
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 links: Download Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation...
-
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...however you will be able to move thousands of mailboxes...
-
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 Contents: addfakeservers.ps1 and removefakeservers...
-
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 the reference is here . The downloadable version of...