Category Archives: PowerShell

Using PowerShell to Analyze Your PC’s Sleep & Wake Behavior

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

I have some older hardware running Windows 7 Media Center.  Normally we let the Media Center just go to sleep on its own but I’ve been concerned that it isn’t sleeping as much during there wee hours of the morning … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

If were following good security practices we run our Windows system with UAC enabled.  This means that if you forget to launch your PowerShell prompt as Administrator when you run a script that requires administrative privilege then that script will … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell V3 CTP2 Available for Download

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

You can grab the bits from here. If you have V3 CTP1 installed, please uninstall it first or you can get your machine into a bad state. So far my favorite two features new to this drop are both in … Continue reading →

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PSCX 2.1 Beta 1 Available for Download

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1.  This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview.  There are a number of bug fixes in this drop: … Continue reading →

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MVP Summit 2011

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

Testing out my first WordPress blog post after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress.  Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can’t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, … Continue reading →

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Determining $ScriptDir Safely

Posted on September 19, 2010 by

We had some boiler plate code that we always put into our scripts to set strict mode and to compute $ScriptDir so the script can load other scripts relatively to its location.  This boiler plate code is simple: #requires –Version … Continue reading →

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Handling Native EXE Output Encoding in UTF8 with No BOM

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

If you are dealing with an native executable that outputs UTF8 with no BOM (byte order marker) you will find that PowerShell garbles the input.  This is most likely an issue with how the .NET console code interprets the incoming … Continue reading →

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Windows PowerShell MVP Award for 2010

Posted on January 1, 2010 by

Just got the notice today.  Woohoo!  I expect 2010 to be a banner year for PowerShell as Windows 7 spreads PowerShell out to more folks than ever before and as usual, I’ll do what I can to help folks grok … Continue reading →

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 String Localization

Posted on October 21, 2009 by

One of the lesser known features in PowerShell 2.0 is that it supports string localization and pretty simply I might add.  Now for most developers and admins script localization probably isn’t going to be something you’ll worry about.  However if … Continue reading →

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It’s Official – Windows 7 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 for Everyone!

Posted on October 21, 2009 by

Congratulations to the Windows and Windows PowerShell teams for two very excellent releases.  I’ve been using Windows 7 daily since January’s beta release and PowerShell 2.0 drops for even longer.  Both products are destined to be smash hits in my … Continue reading →

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