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March 2007 - Posts

Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:51 AM

moments of inspired inspiration and lucid clarity

While emailing back and forth with Keith tonight (ok, well, this morning in EDT, but he's in Colorado, so it kinda counts), I stumbled across a thought that clicked in my brain (I was talking about PowerShell, of course) It feels very much like TiVo to
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:13 AM

Is my "Get" using the version control proxy?

I've had a couple of co-workers that noticed their "get" calls to sync their workspaces running a bit slower - while it's running, the thing I find easiest is to scan for port 8081 traffic, since that's the port the VC proxy tends to run on. There's lots
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:04 AM

WMI queries comparison: C# vs. PowerShell

Don't get me wrong, I love C#, but PowerShell's built-in support for WMI is so nice. Even not using [wmi] (or wmiclass, or wmisearcher, etc.) and just get-wmiobject 's -query, it's so concise and nice. Today's example snippets should be relatively obvious
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:02 PM

PowerShell - coming (in the box!) to a Longhorn Server near you

On my birthday (Feb 15th), I got some great news that I haven't been able to share publicly until today. Longhorn Server (as of Beta3) will include PowerShell ! Also included: Quest Software announced further development of two new free products that
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:39 PM

mini forum hiatus to catch up on Real Work

When our last divisional email from Joe came out this past Friday, it turns out I was #1 in DevDiv and #3 in Microsoft overall in the MSDN forums with 219 answers in the last 30 days. A lot of that was thanks to my 4-month-old son and his (nocturnal)
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:40 AM

PowerShell gotcha - foreach keyword vs. foreach-object cmdlet

This came up on an internal mailing list and I thought others may find it interesting. Here was my response. You’re confusing the foreach keyword with the foreach-object cmdlet – Bruce’s book does an excellent job discussing the differences. “continue”
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:44 PM

The branching guidance whitepaper has arrived!

There's been about a thousand (give or take) forum posts asking for branching advice, so I'm happy to see this whitepaper is now available on codeplex and I can just respond to such requests with this url. :) Make sure to thank Mario for his work on this!
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:44 AM

get-hashes.ps1: Get the hashes (sha256, md5, whatever) for a file

A slight modification of Mike's version , since sometimes I want md5, sometimes sha1, whatever, and I happen to like the '-' separators :) I think sha256 makes a good default, though. The other differences are style related and just my personal preference:
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:01 PM

get-tfsserverstatus.ps1 - fetch the configuration bits of your TFS server

It's currently in the collection as get-tfsstatus.ps1 which has caused confusion since it doesn't act like "tf status", but it's intended to run on your app tier and gather some config settings - I use it to confirm the right things have changed when
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Friday, March 09, 2007 10:46 AM

get-memberships.ps1 - programmatically finding the groups you're a member of

Forum thread was asking for this (admittedly, in C#). Since it's less typing in PowerShell, that's what I'll post instead :) It'll be in the next update to the PowerShell scripts , along with a version of get-tfs.ps1 that figures out the tfs instance
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:27 PM

(More easily) search your work items!

Know-a-Code posts up a neat little VS add-in that lets you do a free-text search on your work items ! Well, not strictly, but pretty close. It looks very usable. I'm glad to see it since the IFilter and Lucene.Net approaches to WI searching have been
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:25 AM

Real Soon Now: System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/opsmgr/evaluation/default.mspx System Center Operations Manager 2007 helps you address your IT management challenges so you can spend more time driving business success. End-to-end Service Management System Center
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