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Kirk Munro

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• 5 min read

Essential PowerShell: To alias, or not to alias, that is the question

Recently there was a discussion between community experts and a product team about a module they are working on. The topic being discussed was cmdlet aliases: whether or not they should provide aliases for their cmdlets out of the box and if so, how they should be provided. Aliases are great for ad-hoc PowerShell work, which is what most PowerShell users do at this point, and incredibly useful when you"™re trying to put out a fire and managing your infrastructure using PowerShell.

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PowerShell MVP for 2012

Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year. Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I"™m quite thrilled about this one because it"™s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP). Thanks to the community for being so great to work with, and thanks to Microsoft both for recognizing individual efforts with the MVP program and for creating such great products like Windows PowerShell!

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• 4 min read

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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• 3 min read

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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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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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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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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• 13 min read

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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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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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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