VTD Session: Windows PowerShell 3.0 – A first look – Session recording

January 25, 2012

The session recording for my Microsoft Virtual Tech Days session on Windows PowerShell 3.0 – A first look is not available on Microsoft Showcase. There is no direct download possible but this can be watched online.

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PowerShell ISE v3 (CTP2) addon: Go to Input

January 13, 2012

This short post shows yet another ISE addon to quickly move to the ISE v3 combined pane input section.

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PowerShell ISE Addon: Go to cursor

January 12, 2012

I have a few scripts that are thousands of lines long. When working with these scripts in ISE, I often start modifying some part of the code and then use scroll bar to move up and down to refer to other parts of the code. In this process, I naturally lose track of the cursor position. This happens quite often and started frustrating me. So, I wrote a simple addon that takes me back to where the cursor is and re-focuses editor window at the cursor position by scrolling back to that place

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Survey: What is your excuse for *not* learning PowerShell?

January 3, 2012

I sent a tweet this morning to understand what are some excuses for not learning PowerShell? To be able to keep track of the responses, I thought of creating a simple survey. Go ahead and let me know your excuses!

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PowerShell Quick Tip: Finding the drive letter of a mounted VHD

December 31, 2011

When mounting VHD files on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 using Diskpart, we always find it difficult to see the newly added drive letter. This trick using WMI events helps you get the newly added drive letter.

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Speaking at Bangalore IT Pro 7th anniversary – PowerShell 3.0 features in Windows 8 Server

December 30, 2011

Bangalore IT Pro is one of the most active Microsoft user groups in India and a recipient of best IT Pro user group award from Microsoft (4 times in a row!). This user group has more than 5000 members and is celebrating it’s 7th anniversary on January 7th, 2012. I am proud to be one of the leads of this user group.

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VTD Session: Windows PowerShell 3.0 – A first look – Slides and Scripts

December 15, 2011

I finished my session on “Windows PowerShell 3.0 – A first look” this evening at VTD (online event). These are the slides I used for this session.

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Finding file version from remote computer(s) using WMI

December 9, 2011

I came across this question on StackOverflow yesterday. The question was about finding the version details of a specific DLL from a list of remote computers. There are multiple ways to achieve this. The most easiest one would be to use PowerShell Remoting. This was my first answer to that question.

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