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• Kirk Munro

PowerSE 2.5.3 is now available

A little over a week ago we released PowerSE 2.5.3 to the web. You can download the latest release here. This release includes many great improvements to the PowerSE product, many of which were requested by you, so thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming! No time limit for freeware With this release, we"™ve removed the requirement to re-download this product every 60 days. This was our number one feature request since we made PowerSE a freeware product.

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• Keith Hill

PSCX 2.1 Beta 1 Available for Download

I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1. This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. There are a number of bug fixes in this drop: 28023 Read-Archive : Cannot bind parameter ‘Path’. Cannot convert the … value of type “System.String” to type “Pscx.IO.PscxPathInfo”. 28198 Test-XML not validating xml against schema correctly 28964 Get-FileTail access conflict 29255 Get-HttpResource Timeout Bug 29598 String – PscxPathInfo ParameterBindingException 30169 Invoke-Ternary example doesn’t work

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• Kirk Munro

Seasons of change: new Product Manager for PowerWFâ„¢ and PowerSE at Devfarm Software

I always enjoy this time of year. There is something about the transition that happens over Labour Day weekend that always gets me excited. Maybe it"™s a lingering feeling of anticipation over the new year at school or university from years gone by, a feeling that I can still appreciate these days as I watch my kids getting excited about their education and the new activities they will sign up for this fall.

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• Kirk Munro

One for the road: Stepping away from PowerGUI®

Today was one of my most difficult days in my 7½+ year career at Quest Software. The same week that I was given a performance raise (I got that email on Monday), this afternoon I got a phone call from the director over my business unit letting me know that my position has been cut effective immediately. Part of a book balancing effort it seems – funny (or not so much) how life works sometimes.

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• Kirk Munro

PowerGUI® 3.0 Hotfix: Double-clicking on a ps1, psm1, or psd1 file to open the Script Editor shows the Start Page as the active page in the Script Editor

This article describes an issue that was introduced into both PowerGUI and PowerGUI Pro when version 3.0 was released and provides a recommended solution to that issue. Problem While the PowerGUI Script Editor is closed, double-clicking on a ps1, psm1 or psd1 file or right-clicking on one of those file types and selecting “Open with PowerGUI Script Editor” will open the file you selected in the Script Editor as expected; however the Start Page will appear as the active tab in the Script Editor instead of the file you opened.

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• Kirk Munro

PowerGUI® Pro 3.0: Mobile Systems Management Using MobileShell

In case you missed the announcement last Friday, [PowerGUI Pro ]23.0 was released to the web. With this release we included a new feature that I"™m really excited about: Mobile Systems Management Using MobileShell. We"™ve had MobileShell for quite a while, but prior to this release you could only use it to invoke your favorite scripts or commands from modules associated with your user account as well as ad hoc commands you wanted to run.

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• Kirk Munro

PowerGUI® Pro and PowerGUI® 3.0 are now available

Today"™s an exciting day because I"™ve finished releasing PowerGUI Pro 3.0 and PowerGUI 3.0 to the web! This release is something we"™ve been working on for a long time, and it has a ton of new goodies for you to play with. You can learn more about the individual features in this release in the highlights below. When reviewing these features, anything that is only available in PowerGUI Pro will be marked as a Pro feature.

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• Kirk Munro

vWorkspace PowerPack: A great example of the power and flexibility you get from PowerShell and PowerGUI®

Last week, the Quest vWorkspace guys showed their prowess once again when they released the first version of the vWorkspace PowerPack for PowerGUI® Pro and PowerGUI®. I love this PowerPack because it really demonstrates how PowerGUI is so complementary to PowerShell. To see what I mean, take a look at the following screenshot: This screenshot shows two major improvements to the vWorkspace management experience by demonstrating how you can use the vWorkspace PowerPack to perform management tasks across all farms, and by demonstrating how you can use the vWorkspace PowerPack to perform management tasks across all locations in a single farm or across all locations in all farms.

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• Kirk Munro

PowerGUI Pro® 3.0 Beta 2 is now available

Hot on the heels of our first beta cycle for PowerGUI Pro 3.0, today we released beta 2 of PowerGUI Pro 3.0 to the web. This release includes a lot of fixes and improvements based on the feedback we"™ve received from you during our first beta cycle, so thank you for that feedback! Here are some details about the improvements that have been made in the 2nd beta of PowerGUI Pro 3.

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• Kirk Munro

Configuring RBAC for MobileShell in PowerGUI Pro 3.0

Yesterday we released the public beta of PowerGUI® Pro 3.0, which comes with all sorts of cool new features for PowerGUI users. My favorite feature is definitely the new management interface for MobileShell. With this interface, you can perform systems management from your handheld device very easily. Here"™s what that might look like from your webkit-enabled web browser: Since this is only a beta release, it doesn"™t necessarily have everything fully polished just yet.

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