AutoMate BPA Server 7.1 provides an effective way to automate many of the routine tasks of network administration.
Here's how to make your first PowerShell experience a good one right from the outset.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/01/2009
Microsoft on Wednesday released a test preview of Windows Management Framework components for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
Learning PowerShell is simple once you understand these basic cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/01/2009
You'll probably have to move to Windows 7 at some point, but there's good news: Microsoft's new OS has lots of great features. Here's what we love -- and don't love.
After the Vista debacle, seven could just be the lucky number for Windows. We review seven features of Windows 7 that could make the newest version of the OS the best Microsoft has produced in years.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 09/01/2009
Microsoft got it right with Windows 7, according to Michael Cherry, vice president of research on operating systems for Directions on Microsoft.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/31/2009
On Friday, Microsoft made the new R2 version of its Windows Server 2008 server operating system available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
In anticipation of PowerShell 2.0, Mr. Roboto gives a few pointers on how to get the most out of it -- starting with Windows Management Instrumentation.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/01/2009
The OutVariable parameter offers a peek deep into your pipelined PowerShell expressions.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/01/2009
GUI-based administration might linger for a while, but working from the console prompt is the wave of the future. And that means scripting.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/01/2009
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of its Exchange Server 2007 product that Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be coming sometime in the third quarter of this year.
Next up in Jeff's six-part WMI series, he demonstrates how to call up WMI methods.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/14/2009
Independent software vendors have long been the life of Microsoft's party by producing products that fill in the gaps Redmond leaves open. For Tech•Ed North America 2009, we celebrate third-party vendors and preview what they'll be announcing and demonstrating at the show.
Monitoring local group members doesn't always have to be difficult, as this PowerShell script shows.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/01/2009