July 12, 2006

Using PowerShell over SSH

Matt Michie explains how to use PowerShell over SSH-- very cool, given that there won't be secure remoting in the version of PowerShell that should RTM later this year.

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April 27, 2006

Goodbye, Monad; hello, PowerShell

Microsoft announced this week that they were renaming the Monad shell environment to "Microsoft PowerShell", which IMHO is kind of an odd name. Most people, I daresay, associated the "Power" prefix with Apple. At least it's not a super-duper-long name that tries to tie in to a bunch of other products. In line with this name change, the Monad team blog has a new home too: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell, and MS released release candidiate 1 of the PowerShell environment. However, I haven't gotten around to updating the category names for this blog... too bad.

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April 21, 2006

Monad event log monitoring

The Monad team blog has a useful Monad script for intelligent event log analysis. The simple way to do it is to say

get-eventlog Application | where {$_.EventID -eq -1018}

but this gets the same set of events every time you run it. The team's script uses a checkpoint file to keep track of the last search it did, and it has a few other nice features as well.

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