The NewsGator Powershell Provider project was recently created at CodePlex, and this afternoon I did an initial check-in of the project as it currently stands. I encourage you to download the code, build it, and give it a whirl! (And once you stop laughing at it, create some work-items on the site for me to [...]

A really good friend of mine who also happens to be in the IT department at my company came and asked me about helping him with a script to back up (but not clear) event logs from remote servers. He had a script (the standard VB script from Microsoft’s website) that would back up and [...]

I worked for about 4-5 hours tonight on my Newsgator PowerShell provider. I just need to code up the right way to read a post, and I’m good to go (for an initial “release”). Eventually I’d like to support every operation the Newsgator API does (including adding/deleting/moving/etc. folders and feeds), but for now it’ s [...]

In the ongoing saga of my Newsgator Powershell provider (well, ongoing to me if not to you), I think there’s finally been a break in the case. As are so many other things, it’s all thanks to Lutz Roeder’s Reflector. I don’t think I can say enough about the usefulness of this tool. In the [...]

PowerShellIDE is the World’s first PowerShell Editor and IDE. It is a graphical user interface that helps explore and exploit the vast power available with PowerShell. It contains a debugger, lets you step through PowerShell scripts, explore variables as you run your scripts and also supports many Intellisense-like functions. This should help (somewhat!) with my [...]

I realize that Windows Powershell does not have a production release (it’s at RC1), but the lack of documentation has been rather frustrating lately. Much of the docs online are empty and although downloading the code from the Community Extensions (via GotDotNet) was helpful, it still has a lot missing. So far the best way [...]