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PowerShell remoting is built on top of Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management protocol. You can use winrm.cmd command line tool to query and manage winrm settings. PowerShell V2 CTP3 contains a wsman provider...

All admins will be familiar with performance counters and their use in diagnosing issues with systems. Now you can access them in PowerShell using Get-Counter. Get-Counter -ListSet * will provide a list of the counters available on your system. This is...

You can have a lot of fun with PowerShell.  Makes sense right - we're busting our butts off and we get to define it so why wouldn't we make it fun? Your busting your butts off at your job as well so why shouldn't your tools be fun? ...

A number of PowerShell MVPs and PowerShell team members are helping me to compile a table of contents for our blog, which basically means that I’m getting to go back and revisit all of the fun stuff posted to the PowerShell blog over the past few years...

I decided to experiment with a screencast. This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks. I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better...

One thing I have really noticed is how quickly CTP3 starts and is ready to use. Much the fastest start we’ve had in PowerShell Technorati Tags: PoserShell , CTP3 , start up speed Read More...

I recently wrote a blog Powershell_Ise Can Do a Lot More Than You Think where I described the ability to program it to do new stuff.  Karl Prosser has picked up the baton and written some cool scripts programming the PowerShell_ISE to make it do...

Windows PowerShell CTP3 has a lot of very cool things.  CTP2 introduced the Add-Type cmdlet, which allowed you to dynamically compile C# in PowerShell.  It was actually possible to use the CompilerParameters to Add-Type to make a console application...