By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/21/2007 2:10 PM

We need your help and a couple of minutes of your time. Please go to this survey page and answer 5 simple questions on how you use PowerGUI today and where we should take it in the future. Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/21/2007 1:00 PM

AD cmdlets are finally gold! We kind of kept sticking to the fashion of perpetual betas for quite some time now (since the first 1.0 beta released late March through the RC 1.0.5 this fall) and we feel that the product is now feature rich and stable enough for us to drop the beta label. Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/18/2007 9:54 PM

All those Set-* cmdlets are great at changing an attribute in AD, but how do you remove an attribute completely? Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/18/2007 3:00 PM

Platforma 2008 (aka TechEd Russia) team has just published the results of attendee surveys and the PowerShell session I did at the event got named the best of the show! Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/14/2007 8:35 PM

Finally I will always have great AD demo environments with no accounts named TestUser01 or alike. ;) This is the outcome of the setting up test AD environments discussion we had this week. Darren and Rob suggested a couple of tricks on duplicating AD to a test lab, and xaegr provided a great link to US census information data on the most frequently used names, as well as a sample script I am re-using and enhancing below. Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/12/2007 3:34 PM

I am often asked how PowerShell can be used to set up test or lab Active Directory environments - and frankly could not come up with a single comprehensive answer - different people need different things in their labs. In this post I go through a few options of that... Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/7/2007 5:17 PM

Thanks to Andrey Tsarkov we now have a PowerGUI Wallpaper available from the PowerGUI downloads page: http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/6/2007 12:46 PM

A few local PowerShell blogs are now available in Russian, including the ones from Vassily Gusev (aka xaegr), Vassily Gusev (aka xaegr), and myself... Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 12/3/2007 5:23 PM

The original release of PowerGUI 1.0.12 we had on Nov 20 had a few issues which got pretty quickly identified and reported by the PowerGUI community. We have created a patch fixing these issues (build 1.0.12.248) and uploaded it to the PowerGUI downloads page last Friday. Read More »

By Dmitry Sotnikov on 11/30/2007 7:58 PM

Guys at Specops have just released an updated version of their flagship product - Specops Command - and it is integrated with PowerGUI. Read More »