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< #   .SYNOPSIS      Demonstrates Decimal arithmetic.  .DESCRIPTION      This script Creates two decimals, then multiplys them and displays them.   .NOTES      File Name  : get-decimal1.ps1      Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl @psp .co.uk      Requires  ...

My French is none too great. If it were, PowerShell-Scripting.com might be of more use. The site looks to be a rich resource for French speaking PowerShell users. Now if only they’s list my PowerShell Scripts blog ( http://pshscripts.blogspot.com )! Technorati...

You can have a lot of fun with PowerShell.  Makes sense right - we're busting our butts off and we get to define it so why wouldn't we make it fun? Your busting your butts off at your job as well so why shouldn't your tools be fun?  Right? In particular, our late binding of names allows you to do some really cool, really powerful stuff.  Here is an example: PS> $d=Get...

Scott Herold has published the first of a three part series called Getting Started With PowerShell and PowerGUI in your Virtual Infrastructure .  I believe that MOST admins should spend time getting  PowerGUI in focus and especially those admins that are intimidated by the command line interface.  Scott only has part 1 of his series available and while it applies to Virtual Infrastructure...

I decided to experiment with a screencast. This is my first and I have no idea what I’m doing so please forgive me if it sucks. I’d like to know whether you find this format useful or not and then specific feedback about how to make the screencast better (e.g. I recorded it at 1024x768 - is that good or too large?). In my previous blog – I mentioned that Proxy cmdlets are super important and powerful...

There are so many powerful features in V2, it is hard to know where to begin. This one is going to blow to top of your head off when you understand what it enables you to do. In this blog, I talk about Proxy Cmdlets which is the ability for one Cmdlet to call another. You could always do this but to do it right has always been very difficult. In particular, what you want to have happen is to be able...

Introduction As PowerShell has evolved, there are a number of things that have been needed to be added in order to make it truly enterprise ready. One of the key concepts added into Version 2 of PowerShell is that of a module. A module is some chunk of...

James Brundage posted a blog entry How To Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type which used a here-string.   One user (lcr) copied and pasted the text and got the following error: Unrecognized token in source text. At line:1 char:72 + Add-Type -OutputType ConsoleApplication -OutputAssembly HelloWorld.exe  < <<< @"     + CategoryInfo         ...