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Date: 04/25/2006
I just got out of Bob Muglia's keynote speech where he formally announced Windows PowerShell...
Date: 04/25/2006
One of our primary goals for Monad was to: "Expose the power of .NET in an Admin-friendly way". The...
Date: 04/24/2006
Most shells (such as Windows CMD.EXE and the UNIX shells SH, KSH, CSH, and BASH) operate by...
Date: 04/21/2006
I strongly encourage people to let us know where we could be doing better and to let us know if we...
Date: 04/16/2006
Sunday morning drive with my hair on fire: Types/Community/Synthetic types/Democracy/Cool XML tricks
Exploring types is a pain! Monad provides Get-Member which makes it pretty nice to explore an OBJECT...
Date: 04/16/2006
In our newsgroup (Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting) , Vasu asked about how match-string...
Date: 04/15/2006
In our newsgroup (Microsoft.Public.Windows.Server.Scripting) , Mark Ayers asked the question:>...
Date: 04/15/2006
Kurt asked the question "why not Noun-Verb vs Verb-Noun" in his post:...
Date: 04/12/2006
Administrators often want to monitor the event logs and look for specific error conditions. The most...
Date: 04/10/2006
Today I came across https://scripts.readify.net/ . This sight is focused on Monad and MSH and is...
Date: 03/27/2006
MoW, a Monad newsgroup regular, asked why only the Caption, Name and PeakUsage properties were...
Date: 03/22/2006
In Monad, mshsnapins can be installed in a different directory from the Monad executables. At...
Date: 03/15/2006
In this blog I will try to explain different features of sort-object(Sort) cmdlet. For the purpose...
Date: 03/14/2006
So how come we have three ways to filter a path in most of the core cmdlets such as in the get-item...
Date: 03/08/2006
Some applications launch themselves whenever you start your computer and load Windows. In most...
Date: 03/08/2006
Hopefully you've read the previous entries on how to create MshSnapins to include your own...
Date: 02/22/2006
In order to prevent a mass usability nightmare with developers picking their own improvised cmdlet...
Date: 02/16/2006
Tony has a very cool series of Monad-oriented blog entries at: https://mshforfun.blogspot.com/ . I...
Date: 02/11/2006
In response to the recent Days till Xmas post, applepwc asked the question > where can I find...
Date: 02/08/2006
As Jeffrey mentioned in an earlier Blog “Finding which parameters are used the most” The Monad team...
Date: 02/06/2006
My daughter loves christmas. She often asks me, "how long is it till christmas?" The problem with...
Date: 02/06/2006
We are in the process of cleaning up our Cmdlets and ensuring that they are consistent. One of the...
Date: 02/05/2006
Last time somebody asked for an example of a C# method that took a scriptblock. First of all,...
Date: 02/01/2006
When I was a Monad neophyte, I was asked to write a Cmdlet taking a file path as a parameter. A big...
Date: 01/30/2006
Now that you know how to create an MshSnapIn, you might want to add help content for all those...
Date: 01/16/2006
With Monad Beta 3 release, we've introduced the concept of the "single shell". What is a single...
Date: 01/12/2006
With the MshSnapIn model in Beta 3, there is no gaurantee that a certain Cmdlet or Provider, apart...
Date: 01/11/2006
To develop a mshsnapin, you can use following three simple steps, Create a class derived from...
Date: 01/10/2006
Latest beta3 release of monad added the capability of adding/removing cmdlets and providers in...
Date: 01/10/2006
In case you were wondering, yes, you can use Monad for your logon scripts. You can't just assign a...
Date: 01/05/2006
Most errors which occur in your working scripts are likely to be "non-terminating". This means that...
Date: 12/29/2005
Often when playing with .Net objects in Monad, I need to use MSDN class library reference to learn...
Date: 12/28/2005
After reading Marcel's introductory piece on ScriptBlock, I decided to rewrite an old script of mine...
Date: 12/19/2005
When scripting with MSH one of the most useful things to know about are scriptblocks (lambda...
Date: 12/15/2005
Most scripters are familar with Microsoft script center. Script center now has a portal for...
Date: 12/13/2005
In the very early days of Monad, we focused on a world where everyone would publish Cmdlets and...
Date: 12/04/2005
One of the traditional challenges with scripting is dealing with different CULTURES. Imagine the...
Date: 11/30/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/15/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/14/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/11/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/09/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/08/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/07/2005
Did your command or script fail and/or report an error? We hope to have a proper script debugger in...
Date: 11/04/2005
I needed to convert some images from bmp to gif for a web site I've been working on. I figured that...
Date: 10/20/2005
A long time ago I posted a filter (AddNote) for adding notes to objects. Some time later I posted a...
Date: 10/13/2005
PDC results are in and the Monad talk came in #3 based upon Presenter Effectiveness. Anders...
Date: 09/20/2005
We've just uploaded the new release to Download Center and the bits are now live!x86:...
Date: 09/13/2005