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For my classes I teach, don’t forget you can “fake” remoting using just WinRM alone…

Windows PowerShell Blog : Remoting Using PowerShell V1 - It's my life... And I live it...

Now they have interactive remoting working… I tell you something, PowerShell v2 is getting more and more features… Maybe I need to hibernate for a month just to learn them all.

Windows PowerShell Blog : Interactive remoting in CTP3

This is a good tip if you are manually downloading Podcasts.

Loud Sigh : Making Audio a Podcast on the Zune

This is a great example of how to use Trap and Throw in PowerShell to handle errors besides using SilentlyContinue and $?.

Also there is a great blog post on the PowerShell Blog where they talk about the PowerShell: TFM book and Chapter 11 Covers this very topic along with others ( http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/12/29/documenting-trap-and-throw.aspx ).

Trap [Exception] { “In PowerShell” }

This one is another doosey… Be careful with mergecontentdb when you are using STSADM in WSS and MOSS.

Large databases can cause this command to seem to be not working when it can take a long time to complete. Canceling this once it is begun can lead to corrupted databases.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Possible Issue with mergecontentdb STSADM Operation

Jeffrey Snover had done well and has been blessed… :-)

Congratulations on becoming a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Few make it to that level and the fact that something as important as PowerShell had come along is a testament to how well he and the team has done.

Congratulations again…

Windows PowerShell Blog : Local Boy Makes Good

Thanks to the PowerShell Blog, This little gem popped  up on my radar today… I was wondering how far they had gotten in the PowerShell Commandlets for Active Directory. Now I can see they are hard at work… Keep it going fellas…

Active Directory Powershell Blog

Now THIS is total awesomeness… Glad to have it done, now like they said, to finish Windows 7.

IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 Final Available Now

Now this is a cool new feature of PowerShell V2. I don’t P/Invoke very often, but I can see where it comes in handy.

Precision Computing - PowerShell P/Invoke Walkthrough

This is a pretty nice example of taking PowerShell and outputting the results to HTML. In this particular example, they put a little more work into their output and add a style sheet to the page and some other formatting.

Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating Formatted HTML Output

well here’s one way to make PowerShell act more like CMD when you are looking at listing directories. This is only in V2, but at least it is a start for those who really long for the olden days.

Windows PowerShell Blog : dir –a:d

Some more examples of using Hash tables within PowerShell. This is a pretty mind bending list of examples, but you get the power you have by looking at these.

Media And Microcode : Microcode: PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell

This is an interesting commandlet to output values to a SQL table.

Random thoughts by SQL DBA/System Administrator : out-sql Powershell function - export pipeline contents to a new SQL Server table

This is a really good set of blog entries on using PowerShell and MOSS/WSS together.

PowerShell - Zach Rosenfield's SharePoint Blog

Just as a quick note from the previous article I blogged about, the blog entry here links to someone who tweaked the code to take a script block instead of just a string command.

Pretty darned neat if you ask me.

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