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Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview February 2015 includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), and Windows PowerShell ISE. It also includes OneGet, PowerShellGet, and Network Switch cmdlets. Link Removed

This session will focus on the open source interoperability that Powershell provides for other platforms and also provide an update on the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) initiative that Microsoft has introduced with the Open Group. Link Removed Continue reading...

Link Removed, Michael Greene and Tiander Turpijn are back for Part 3 in our “Automation and DevOps” series and in today’s episode that give us an overview of PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) and how it is relevant in a hybrid cloud scenario for on-premises and Microsoft Azure or in a...

Today we're highlighting more Mads Visual Studio Extensions, one that's simple but could be one that you end up wonder where it's been all your dev life and another that's just fun (well boy humor fun) Here's a couple other recent times we've highlighted Mads' Extensions... Lots of VS...

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Hey all, Surface Pro 3 user here who dual boots Windows 8.1 Pro with Windows Technical Preview. In the latest build, when checking for updates to apps, OneNote can not be updated due to the version installed actually being newer (and less functional) than the latest Store release. This can be...

On Windows XP NetSend could broadcast a message to all systems on your network. Can the Windows 7 MSG do the same thing and if so how? The help for MSG says this: Send a message to a user. MSG {username | sessionname | sessionid | @filename | *} [/SERVER:servername] [/TIME:seconds] [/V]...

Hi there! My name is Kim and I've run into a technical issue I just can't seem to troubleshoot for the life of me. When I try to run my Windows Update, it gives me the error that 'Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running'. Its been like this for...

I'm trying to write a script which validates certificate chain in PowerShell (that all certificates in the chain are not expired) and finds the certificate which is closest to expiration. I'm using following script to find issuer certificate: Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path Cert: | Where-Object {...

Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell ISE, Windows PowerShell Web Services (Management OData IIS Extension), Windows Remote Management (WinRM), Windows Management Infrastructure (WMI), the Server Manager WMI provider, and a new...

Win7Pro Only I'm looking for a scripted solution, or a command line that I can ultimately script. The reason being that I'm supporting 1200 users in remote locations, and I automate as much as I can in batch and VB scripts. I'm not intimately familiar with PowerShell, but I'm not opposed to it...

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Hardware/Software . existing HP notebook with Win7 32bit Symptoms . to diagnose a virus attack, it helps to know, to the second, when a file was updated. With only a sorted ADMIN DIR output B 4 the restore, it could only log to the minute. Tho I eventually saw the files it created, seconds...

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Some of you may have noticed us improving our defense-in-depth practices for bulletins by supplying sha1 and sha2 hashes in the Knowledge Base (KB) articles. This has been most visible in the KB with the addition of the “File hash information” section, but it is also noted in the...

Fixes an issue that occurs when applications execute Windows PowerShell scripts in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. When this issue occurs, the applications randomly crash. Link Removed

What is going on here? Total madness? Link Removed Link Removed First, please let me apologize for the mass of wires, general techno geek junk, and other no-no’s like a can of diet Pepsi right next to my StarTech 4-port USB3 drive bay. Once I did some extensive reading about Storage...