The PowerShell Guy

I’m very happy and proud that I received a e-mail from Microsoft that I got my 4th MVP Award, and may call myself a PowerShell MVP for another year, an excellent start for me ;-). Dear Marc van Orsouw, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise...

Shay pointed me to this excellent series about Regular Expressions Regular Expression Webcast Series , While following this series to fresh up my Regex skill’s, I will post about PowerShell Specifics in this series here. There are more ways to work with regular expressions with PowerShell, for following the exercises in Part 2 of the series, we can limit us to the –Match Operator. I this Post I show...

New Spaghetti Code Podcast: Neil Iversen Discusses Microsoft PowerShell Spaghetti Code discusses Microsoft Powershell with Neil Iversen. Neil describes how Powershell is the combination of command line simplicity with the power of .NET. He also talks about how Powershell can make life easier for developers and how Powershell exposes new capabilities to the applications they create. A very nice Podcast...

Read the full story here : http://powershellug.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2008/11/08/ymca.aspx Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More...

Following a note on this blogpage about Powershell for needed for the Azure Services Training Kit , I decided to check it out : And yes the dowload page states you need PowerShell for this, so I downloaded this Kit and did a DIR -REC on the directory for .PS1 files : Directory: C:\AzureServicesKit\Assets\DependencyChecker\Scripts\Dependencies\Check Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- -------------...

Yesterday we had a great Powershell Panel Discussion and you can already find the audio version online. http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-scripting-podcast-episode-4-teched.html This episode was recorded live on Tuesday 4th November at TechEd EMEA, Barcelona and features only the recorded Powershell Panel Discussion. Enjoy, Greetings /\/\o\/\/ Read More...

Just one week to go for TechEd EMEA 2008 IT Professionals Barcelona. I'm really looking forward to it again as there will be much exciting PowerShell content, and other interesting sessions Some people on my "finally get a chance to meet, or meet again " list will be there, and of course a lot new people to meet. I also will be at the PowerShell Booth in the ATE (Ask the Experts ) area...

When I saw the example in I *heart* python , and the remark about PowerShell in it, I could not resist doing the same exercise in PowerShell : $codes = @{} # some existing coded for testing and make sure we have at least one duplicate $existingCodes = ' poipoi ' , ' blinky ' $codes [ ' poipoi ' ] = 0 # Create new codes $r = new-object random ( 1 .. 500 ) |% { $tmp = ''...