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A series of posts on using the Exchange DSC resources – starts here http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx

The Scripting Guy has started a series on upgrading the version of  PowerShell you run.  My article in the series is out today – http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/10/20/should-i-upgrade-to-latest-windows-powershell-version.aspx

Looks like the next wave of the DSC resource kit is on its way – a set of resources for Exchange 2013 have been published – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388 with a wave 8 tag.   I’ve been waiting for the Exchange resources – they’re going to make my life soooooo much easier

If you run get-process you will see something like this for each process £> Get-Process | select -f 1 Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M)  CPU(s)   Id ProcessName ——- —— —– —– —–  ——   — ———–      80      7   960  4096    44         1560 armsvc   You’ll get the same display if you use £> Get-Process | […]

All of the recordings from the recent PowerShell Summit in Amsterdam are now available through the PowerShell.org channel on youtube. The playlist for the Summit is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coehjg9cB6foPjBojLHYQGb_   Thank you again to the speakers, and attendees, who made for a wonderful first Summit in Europe and more thanks to the people who donated to our […]

  I saw a question regarding finding the Win32_NetworkAdapter instance using the matching Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration starting point.  This answers the “which adapter has an IP address of X” type question.   The Index property on a Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration instance has the same value as the DeviceId property on the corresponding Win32_NetworkAdapter.   An alternative is to use […]

This blog and its mirrors have reached the 1,000,000 hits for the year to date. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to read my postings

The videos from day 1 of the Powershell Summit Europe 2014 are now available on the PowerShell.org youtube channel. The European Summit playlist can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coehjg9cB6foPjBojLHYQGb_   Uploading of day 2 is in progress and I’ll supply notification when complete   Enjoy.

All of the slides and demo code the speakers wanted to share are available for your enjoyment at http://1drv.ms/1vMWmtm   I’m currently uploading the videos which is a slow process.  I’ll post when hat activity is completed.

With the release of the technical previews of Windows 10 and Windows server you can see PowerShell v5 in its native environment. There’s a good introduction to the new features in PowerShell v5 here – http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh857339.aspx.   Its worth comparing the information given for PowerShell v4 and v3 (in the same article) to see where […]