A first look at the remoting functionality in the PowerShell V2 CTP

We've added some great new features to the community - why not start taking advantage?

two new great powershell tools available for free !! Special Operations Software makes "PowerShell remoting through Group Policy" available as trialware and Shell Tools makes PowerShellPlus available for free

PowerGUI v. 1.0.12[BETA] will be shipping soon. Expect new features on the free editor like localization to Gernan, Intellisense, Breakpoints, executing step-by-step and viewing of the variables and their values in the meantime.

PowerShellCommunity CMD-lets: Let's get started!

Using PowerLocker and the PowerShell v2 CTP to encrypt scripts, and output true .NET objects.

I've begun delving into the ConfigMgr SDK to start writing some scripts for it.  My primary interest is in working on a set of Resource Kit tools for Desired Configuration Manager.  I've found that everything I've looked so far has been in WMI.  Which is both a blessing and a curse. It certainly makes it easier to access from Powershell's native Get-WMIObject Cmdlet.

When I decided to start this blog, I thought it would be nice to be able to display PowerShell code examples with nice formatting and syntax highlighting. I tried a few freely available tools out there that advertised PowerShell syntax support, but they all seemed to fall short in a category or two. None of them correctly handled multiple line strings or here-strings, and none of them correctly highlighted PowerShell variables enclosed in curly braces e.g. "${this is a variable}".

The December issue of MSDN Magazine (sorry, not online as I post this, so no links yet) has a great article by James McCaffrey about using PowerShell to automate GUI apps. Worth reading - look for the "TEST RUN" column on page 95.

We killed ourselves to get it to you in a timely fashion... and now it's available at a discounted price.