FINALLY it is released. PowerShell 2.0 is now available in RTM form.
Download today and get all the new WMI features and the new Remoting framework for PowerShell and management. Also don’t forget the BITS commandlets for downloading large files from the internet and from file shares.
Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!
A great piece of history going away.
Langley decommissioned the tunnel in 1995, and then leased it to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., for research and student engineering training. That lease was up this summer and the tunnel is scheduled for demolition because of its lack of national strategic importance, limited testing capability, deteriorating condition and the environmental liability associated with the materials used in its construction.
NASA - Test of Futuristic X-48C is Historic Wind Tunnel's Swan Song
This is how you can use the “linking” classes in WMI to get the objects in PowerShell without doing a second WMI query.
Windows PowerShell Blog : WMI Object Identifiers and Keys
Technically this blog entry is right, HOWEVER if you use that same account to administrate the farm, it needs to be admin on the servers in order to extend a Web Application. Certain services and operations require admin rights as a comment mentioned not seeing. If you don’t have an account with those privileges then you won’t be able to manage the services or IIS sites (not to mention the two other issues in the snippet below). To save headaches people just usually make that account admin. For the tightest security you would follow the guidance below. However if you make the account admin does not mean that the install is inherently insecure either.
Easily the most irritating element of mis-configuration in a SharePoint 2007 farm is the assignment of local admin privileges (for each box in the farm) to the account used for connections to the configuration database and as the identity of the application pool hosting Central Administration (commonly referred to as the 'farm account'.
THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT!! THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT!!
Your farm account can be a regular domain user, no special requirements at all. The SharePoint Configuration Wizard will assign ALL the required privileges automatically (which the exception of DCOM activation as detailed here, and the issue with %windir%\Tasks).
NO! Your SharePoint Farm Account does NOT need local admin privileges. So don't give it them!
She is really good in SQL and I recommend her blogs and webcasts if you want to understand some of the gotcha’s & optimizations in SQL Server. I learned about her from .NET Rocks back in the day.
http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/
Here are some entries specifically for SharePoint
http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Sharepoint.aspx
Transaction Log entries
http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Transaction-Log.aspx
Here are some webcasts
http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/TechNet-Webcasts.aspx