Monthly Archives: March 2011

The “Grand Tour” – Western United States in 1996 – Part II

The night in Estes Park was not much to remember – some motel along a stretch of road with many more motels, one looking like the other. After some quick phone calls “home” to let people know we are safe … Continue reading

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The “Grand Tour” – Western United States in 1996

Why would one write about a trip that has happened about 15 years ago? Well – maybe because of that, maybe because there had been an “initial” trip report on my previous web site and maybe because I am thinking … Continue reading

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Working with the File System

After the initial exploration of PowerShell, learning about pipelines and looking at interactive vs. scripted execution, it is time to do something useful. I have picked an example from “the real world”: an application is using a set of file-system … Continue reading

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Interactive vs. Scripting Mode

In the previous two posts [1,2], we have used the interactive Windows PowerShell Console or the PowerShell ISE Console Window to execute commands. While this works fine for some ad-hoc processing, the reality will usually be different: you will develop, … Continue reading

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From Zero to PowerShell 2.0 – Pipelines

After the first look at PowerShell 2.0, we already know there are tons of commands – or Commandlets as they are called in PowerShell. Each one of them is a more or less powerful feature by itself but usually, you … Continue reading

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