So what is going to happen for PowerShell in 2018? In April we have the Summit. Our biggest ever Summit with many more speakers, more sessions and new things including Iron Scripter. We’ll be starting the build up in early January so keep an eye on powershell.org. PowerShell v6 will be GA in […]
An interesting article on the Scripting Guy blog – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2017/12/29/cross-platform-powershell-remoting-in-action/ discusses using SSH remoting in PowerShell v6. Some of the code needs tightening up but its a good first step for combining v6 and v5.1
This is a good time to review what happened in the PowerShell community in 2017. It’s my perspective so is obviously biased based on my experiences. The 2017 PowerShell Summit was an early highlight of the year. We sold out in early February and all registrations were for the whole f0ur days. This was […]
When Windows 10 and Server 2016 were released they contained a new CIM namespace – ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate This contained a CIM class MSFT_WUOperationsSession that had 2 very useful methods – ScanForUpdates and ApplyApplicableUpdates. These methods enabled you to find and install updates from the Windows Update site or a WSUS server if you’d configured […]
Test-Path is a useful cmdlet for testing the validity of a path. You get a True/False return depending on if the path exists or not. There’s also a way to add to the test by determining if the path points to a container (folder) or a leaf (file) using the –PathType parameter. Here’s […]
A couple of features of PowerShell v6 release candidate 2 need commenting on. Firstly, I was surprised when installing RC 2 on a Windows 10 machine (Insider build) that RC1 was removed. In the past you’ve been able to run numerous versions of PowerShell v6 side-by-side. This has consequences if the behaviour continues into […]
Release candidate 2 for PowerShell v6 is available for download from – https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases One worrying point is the the OpenSSH implementation which is required for remoting to and from Linux systems doesn’t appear to be any where near a release candidate – https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases. The latest release as of this writing is 0.0.24.0. The steps […]
You don’t usually see people using the where method. A recent question on the forums highlighted using the where method. PowerShell deals in collections and will automatically create a collection of objects if the are multiple objects returned for instance $procs = Get-Process Iterating over a process can take time. PowerShell introduced 2 […]
A question came up regarding my recent post about using the file system COM object to get folder sizes. The question was about the folder path and how you could see the whole path. In other words how to avoid the truncation in the display and the three dots. When PowerShell displays objects it will […]
There is a very significant gap between the functionality available in PowerShell v6 as opposed to PowerShell v5.1. In part this is due to the underlying version of .NET but mainly to the defined module paths in the two versions. In PowerShell v5.1 I have: PS> $env:PSModulePath -split ‘;’ C:\Scripts\Modules C:\Users\Richard.MANTICORE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules […]