Just when I was thinking that there is a need for a nice regular expression helper for PowerShell, SAPIEN Technologies announced the community preview of their new product called PowerRegEx. PowerRegEx is a regular expression building tool that provides help and real-time testing.
Source : PowerShell Magazine
Here’s another cool project created by PowerShell MVP Doug Finke. PSharp is a tool designed for PowerShell’s Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) editor. Its fast navigation capabilities allows you to quickly identify the functions, variables and commands in the current file, with a simple key stroke.
Source : PowerShell Magazine
Source : PowerShell MagazineEver wondered why isn’t there support for writing PowerShell scripts in Visual Studio? I have had several projects where I needed to integrate PowerShell scripts into a C# solution I created in Visual Studio. For this, I needed to use multiple editors – one for C# and another for PowerShell scripts. I am sure that I am not the only one looking for such integration between Visual Studio and PowerShell.
Adam Driscoll, a fellow PowerShell MVP, announced that he is working on PoshTools - a reincarnation ofPowerGUIVSX. PoshTools is a Visual Studio extension to enable writing PowerShell scripts and supports full IntelliSense capabilities for PowerShell inside the Visual Studio Editor. This new integration has no dependency on PowerGUI editor.
Because DISM is a command-line utility, learning its syntax can take some time. For instance, you’d need the following syntax to install three custom device drivers into a mounted WIM image.
Mike Celone‘s wonderful CodePlex project DISM GUI is a graphical front-end to DISM, and makes it much quicker to accomplish the simplest to the most complicated image maintenance and servicing tasks.
Source : 4sysops.com
You might want to think twice before you let someone borrow your computer.The Ed Boot Report
The most obvious risk of allowing someone else access to your desktop is that they can impersonate you, using any app where you’re already signed in. They could send prank messages using your default email client, or profess your undying love for Justin Bieber using your logged-in Twitter account.
That’s annoying, but far from fatal.
But the situation becomes considerably worse if you use Google Chrome to save and sync passwords for easy logins at your favorite websites. An intruder who has unrestricted access to your computer for even a minute can view and copy all of your saved passwords just by visiting an easy-to-remember settings page: chrome://settings/passwords.
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 comes with a completely redesigned and enhanced suite of in-browser developer tools that help developers build, diagnose, and optimize modern Web sites and apps across multiple devices. The new tools, which we call F12 for short, enable Web developers to work quickly and efficiently.Source : IEBlog
The Visual Studio and IE teams have worked together to build F12 with a core principle of helping you get from problem to solution quickly with actionable data. The new F12 enables you to deliver fast and fluid Web experiences with tools for diagnosing and fixing performance issues and tools that give you deeper insight into how IE is laying out and rendering your app. F12 supports the fast, iterative workflow used by modern Web developers.
Kerberos is becoming increasingly mandatory for really cool features such as Protocol Transition. Moreover, as you might be painfully aware, managing Service Principal Names (SPN’s) for the use of Kerberos by applications can be daunting at times.Source : Ask the Directory Services Team Blog
In this blog, we will not be going into the gory details of SPNs and how applications are using them. In fact, I’m assuming you already have some basic knowledge about SPN’s and how they are used.
In today’s blog I am going to discuss how to handle booting from a USB drive on a UEFI system so you can deploy WindowsArticle : Ask the Core Team
Did you know there are 5 places where ASP.NET requests can become queued on an IIS server?Source : blog.leansentry.com
Not all these queues are documented, and it can be very difficult to tell when and where requests are queued.
As part of LeanSentry's automatic hang detection and troubleshooting, we had to figure out the IIS/ASP.NET request queueing behavior. So, we wanted to share the knowledge with everyone so you can properly track down queued requests.
Read on to learn all about these queues, how to tell when requests are queued, and how to identify the exact requests that are actually queued!
With Windows 8.1 we will receive a new Powershell. Read all about it.
Windows PowerShell 4.0 includes several significant features that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and manage Windows-based environments more easily and comprehensively.
Windows PowerShell 4.0 is backward-compatible. Cmdlets, providers, modules, snap-ins, scripts, functions, and profiles that were designed for Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 work in Windows PowerShell 4.0 without changes.
Continue reading : technet.microsoft.com
At long last, Microsoft has released a version of its Office suite for iOS. The new app targets the iPhone and closely resembles the Office app that’s built into Windows Phone 8. Here's what you'll find in the new app, which is available from the App Store immediately.Souce : The Ed Bott Report
Today at Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft's Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT tablets as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this year. This means that if you have a Microsoft Surface or a Windows RT tablet made by one of our hardware partners, or you are planning to buy one, you'll soon have access to the familiar tools in Outlook that help you communicate with others, manage your contacts and appointments, and find information fast.bink.nu
There is a ‘must read’ chapter in ASP.NET documentation on MSDN about security :
Well, it only took three years, but Microsoft has finally taken on the iPad in the place that needs the most work: Public perception. A new ad, designed to mimic the sickly sweet iPad ads of late, pits Apple’s tablet against a Windows 8 tablet. And it is awesome.
Source : winsupersite.com
Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, is packed with a ton of extras –– almost to a fault.
When the phone first came out, reviewers criticized Samsung for shoving too many complex and glitchy extras in the phone.
But there are some features in the GS4 that do work well and could be useful, and you won't find them in the GS4's chief rival, the iPhone.
Let's take a look at some of the best features in the GS4 that you won't find in the iPhone.
Read more: www.businessinsider.com
Some Windows systems administrators are faced with deploying and supporting Apple iDevices running iOS. What first- and third-party options exist for these sysadmins?
Complete article : 4sysops
When new builds of Windows leak, most people focus on easily accessible features such as the user interface or file system. While those are certainly important areas, I feel changes to the underpinnings of Windows, such as its APIs and related developer tools, often go unseen (and are, frankly, more interesting). So today, I'm switching gears and sharing my notes on Windows PowerShell cmdlets and changes coming in Windows 8.1 "Blue" (as of leaked build 9374).Source : WithinWindows
The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family.
The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations:
The Full Server Packages for April 2013 CU are available through the following links:Source : Stefan Gobner - TechNet Blogs
- Download WSS 3.0 April 2013 CU
- Download MOSS 2007 April 2013 CU
- After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.
Due to low adoption and usage of the pre-release versions of Script Explorer, Microsoft has decided to take the project down, starting by removing the RC package from the Download Center.
The back-end script aggregation service used by Script Explorer will continue to operate for a few more months, allowing users to gradually migrate to another scripts sharing platform.
Source : PowerShellMagazine
Dell released PowerGUI 3.6.0 script editor early this week. With this release, PowerGUI includes full support for Windows PowerShell 3.0 and support for Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Operating Systems.
You can download this new release on PowerGUI.org. A complete list of changes since the release of PowerGUI 3.0 are available here.
Source : PowerShellMagazine
Microsoft today released a major and long-overdue update to its SkyDrive app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. And while the improvements in this release are no doubt notable, the big news here is that the update happened at all. As you may recall, Apple and Microsoft were involved in a poorly-disguised dispute that caused this app update to be delayed several months.Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
This week, Google pulled out of the loose alliance of companies that utilize the WebKit browser rendering engine. Going forward, Google will go its own way with the WebKit-derived Blink rendering engine, leaving Apple and other WebKit backers in the dust.Source : Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
This blog has been a long time coming. There is a bit of confusion about the subject of alternate data streams(ADS) and no small amount of suspicion. So I want to take a few minutes to set the record straight on ADS.
As we reported, the core app updates for Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging are available a little earlier than tomorrow, that is, they’re ready to go right now. If you don’t see them in the Windows Store, from the settings (right click or swipe in from the right), click on “check for updates” and you should be good to go.
Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines. Google stomped them out of business like Godzilla sweeping through Tokyo.
IISpeed is a port of Google’s mod_PageSpeed designed to work with Microsoft’s IIS server software. IIS is one of the most popular servers on the web, powering millions of web-sites, and we are excited to bring the full power of PageSpeed optimization to the Windows platform.Source Steve Schofield's Blog : The Official Microsoft IIS Site
Like in previous Windows versions, the built-in administrator account is disabled by default in Windows 8. You can easily enable it in Windows 8 with the command net user administrator /active:yes from a command prompt with admin privileges. However, if you are locked out of your computer, for example because you forgot your password, you need to enable the administrator account offline—that is, from a second Windows instance—to be able to log on with administrator rights.Source : 4sysops
In a surprise reversal, Microsoft has changed the default behavior of Flash content on websites viewed using Internet Explorer in Windows 8 or Windows RT. Previously, sites had to be on a whitelist before Flash would work. The new behavior effectively turns the Compatibility View list into an exclusive blacklist of badly behaved sites.Source : The Ed Bott Report | ZDNet
Google Reader will not be available after July 1, 2013
Dear Goole will you some day show some respect to your users. If you want us to be loyal to you, you should stop shutting down the services we like and use.
Source : LiveSide.net
Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 from Official Microsoft Download Center
To manage the Task Scheduler service with Powershell on Windows 8/2012, you can use the new Scheduledtasks module. On Windows Vista/7/2008/2008 R2 you have to download the PowershellPack (also included in Windows 7 Reskit) and install the taskscheduler module.
But there is one thing missing in the taskscheduler module, when you want to create a new task with the Register-ScheduledTasks : you can’t specified in witch folder you want it. So I’ve created a new cmdlet (Register-ScheduledTasksEx) that allow you to specified to folder to use. To install this new cmdlet (kind of a add-on) with the taskscheduler module, just follow these 2 steps :
Create a new file named Register-ScheduledTasksEx.ps1 in the directory where the taskscheduler module is installed (generally %USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules) and paste the following code in it.
function Register-ScheduledTaskEx
{
<#
.Synopsis
Registers a scheduled task.
.Description
Registers a scheduled task.
Modified to support Folders (path)
#>
param(
# The name of the scheduled task to register
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=0)]
[string]
$name,
# The path of the scheduled task to register
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
[ValidateNotNull()]
[string]
$path="",
# The Scheduled Task to Register
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true,
Mandatory=$true)]
[__ComObject]
$Task,
# The name of the computer to connect to.
[string[]]
$ComputerName,
# The credential used to connect
[Management.Automation.PSCredential]
$Credential
)
begin {
Set-StrictMode -Off
}
process {
if ($task.Definition) { $Task = $task.Definition }
foreach ($c in $computerName) {
$scheduler = Connect-ToTaskScheduler -ComputerName $c -Credential $Credential
if ($scheduler -and $scheduler.Connected) {
$folder = $scheduler.GetFolder($path)
if ($Credential) {
$folder.RegisterTaskDefinition($Name,
$Task,
6,
$credential.UserName,
$credentail.GetNetworkCredential().Password,
6,
$null)
} else {
$folder.RegisterTaskDefinition($Name,
$Task,
6,
"",
"",
3,
$null)
}
}
}
}
}Add the following line to the TaskScheduler.psm1 file (In the TaskScheduler module directory).
. $psScriptRoot\Register-ScheduledTaskEx.ps1
Here’s how to use the new cmdlet :
import-module TaskScheduler $ScheduledTask = New-Task $ScheduledTask | add-TaskAction -path "Notepad.exe" -Arguments "" -WorkingDirectory ""| out-null # Note : The folder "\MyCustomFolder" must already exist in the TaskScheduler $ScheduledTask | Register-ScheduledTaskEx -Name "MyCustomScheduledTask" -path "\MyCustomFolder" -ComputerName Localhost | out-null
Source : powershelleverydayfaq.blogspot.ca
Robert McMurray has started an excellent series of posts about Log Parser.
The first 6 posts in his series are available :
Source : blogs.msdn.com
The Galaxy S IV is going to be announced March 15th with the device being available in Europe and Asia beginning in April. The U.S., Australia and Africa will be able to get their hands on the Galaxy device in the May / June time frame.Source : Life On My Mobile
If you followed security experts' advice and manually updated Java this week to fix a critical vulnerability, you might have gotten more than you asked for. Oracle probably makes tens of millions of dollars a year from crapware, and big venture capitalists see it as a growth business.Source : The Ed Boot Report
In Windows 8 and especially on Windows RT, your ability to run Flash programs hosted on the web depends on whether a site is included on Microsoft's Compatibility View list. So what does it take to get added to that list? And what can you do if a favorite Flash-based site won't work?Source : The Ed Bott Report
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a server role available in Windows Server 2012 that enables administrators to install Windows client and server operating system software remotely. WDS is aimed at small to mid-sized businesses who may not have the budget for enterprise-class OS deployment technologies.
In this blog post I’d like to highlight the new features and enhancements that Microsoft made to WDS in Windows Server 2012 as compared to Windows Server 2008 R2. We can summarize the new features succinctly as follows, after which we’ll provide more detail on each one:Source : 4sysops.com
- Support for ARM devices
- Greater control over deployment payload
- Standalone mode
- Expected Deployment Results wizard
As much as we love adding new features to Outlook, for the maintainability of our product we sometimes need to remove those that are out of date and aren't utilized by a large number of users. This allows us to focus on improving the Outlook features that most of you, our customers, rely on.
Apple has today launched a new status page for its iCloud, store and general services that provides far more detail about status and uptimes of its various cloud and backend components. The page features detailed breakdowns of each service, categorized by section including Services, Stores and iCloud.
Google Maps (Free) by Google, Inc. is the Apple Maps replacement everyone has been waiting for. Since they took out Google for the maps in iOS 6, Apple has faced numerous public incidents because of their in-house Maps software, with the latest being potentially life threatening in Australia. And now, for everyone’s sake, Google Maps returns.
Adobe has released a free font set for coding environments called Source Code Pro. The set include 6 fonts :
You can download it at sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe
Here’s some samples to compare it with other fonts good for coding.
Source : www.powertheshell.com
Even though Cassini is the default development web server in Visual Studio, Microsoft has provided a stand-alone option that also integrates with Visual Studio. IIS Express is almost exactly like the full IIS, only it is self-contained, it isn’t a service, and it doesn’t need admin rights for most tasks. We are going to walk through how to get it, how to configure it, and how to make the most of it without spending a lot of time on it.Article : Tim Corey on CodeProject
IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012 doesn’t have any fixed concurrent request limit, apart from whatever limit would be reached when resources are maxed.
However, the client version of IIS 8, which is on Windows 8, does have a concurrent connection request limitation to limit high traffic production uses on a client edition of Windows.
Learn about the features and functionality that are deprecated in SharePoint 2013.Complete article : Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
Stress test your application stack and expand your toolset with Windows versions of popular Unix/Linux-based command-line utilities with this month’s tools.
StressStimulusGnuWin
Navigating Windows 8 involves a steeper learning curve, but you can't dispute the features that Microsoft has absolutely nailed.Complete article : www.cio.com
Microsoft announced today that it has participated in the porting of a hit iOS game, Contre Jour, to the web with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10. Described as the most ambitious use of HTML5 to date, Contre Jour needs to be experienced with a Windows 8 (or RT) tablet to be fully appreciated.
Interested in playing Contre Jour on the web? Check it out now at http://www.contrejour.ie.Source : Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
The latest language from the company once identified for its programming languages seeks to bring a higher class of developer into the Web apps space, without changing the foundation of the Web... even if such a change wouldn’t be such a bad ideaRead more : ReadWriteWeb
Last week, a hacker group claimed that it breached computer systems at 100 major universities. Team GhostShell gained access to servers at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Michigan, among others. The technique used, SQL injection, is not new or complex, but reportedly it's becoming increasingly common. Here's a quick guide to defending your servers.Read more : ReadWriteWeb
Here’s a little AppleScript Droplet to clear all Extended Attributes in OS X. This is useful to delete the famous com.apple.quarantine attribute.
Then, you can simply drag an drop files or folders on the application.
(*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
C L E A R E X T E N D E D A T T R I B U T E S
Delete all extended attributes from one or many files
under OS X
Author : Jean-Pierre.Paradis@fsa.ulval.ca
Date : 2 octobre 2012
Version : 1.00
Language : AppleScript (Droplet)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*)
tell application "Finder" to display alert "Please drop file(s) or folder(s) on this application to delete all extended attributes" as informational
on open Dropped_Things
repeat with Item_index from 1 to the count of Dropped_Things
set Dropped_Item to item Item_index of Dropped_Things
set Dropped_Item_Info to info for Dropped_Item
if folder of the Dropped_Item_Info is true then
Process_Folder(Dropped_Item)
else
Process_File(Dropped_Item)
end if
end repeat
end open
-- this sub-routine processes files
on Process_File(File_Item)
set File_POSIX_path to POSIX path of File_Item
set File_Item_Info to info for File_Item
display dialog "Processing '" & (name of File_Item_Info) & "' ..." with icon note buttons {"Ok"} with title "Clear Extended Attributes" giving up after 1
do shell script "xattr -c '" & File_POSIX_path & "'"
end Process_File
-- this sub-routine processes folders
on Process_Folder(Folder_Item)
set Folder_Content to list folder Folder_Item without invisibles
repeat with Item_index from 1 to the count of Folder_Content
set Folder_Content_Item to alias ((Folder_Item as Unicode text) & (item Item_index of Folder_Content))
set Folder_Content_Item_Info to info for Folder_Content_Item
if folder of Folder_Content_Item_Info is true then
Process_Folder(Folder_Content_Item)
else
Process_File(Folder_Content_Item)
end if
end repeat
end Process_Folder
It’s part of the Windows Management Framework 3.0.
It’s included with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, but it can be installed on
To download : www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/
You may also take a look at Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager Quick Reference Guides
Many companies are happy with the features SharePoint provides out of the box. Usually the only customization they want to do is change the webpage layouts and design to make them go along with their corporate design. For this purpose, they have a production SharePoint farm and one for test purposes. The customizations are done with SharePoint Designer on the test farm, and after they have been tested thoroughly they are rolled out to the production farm. But, more often than not, the day comes when SharePoint Designer isn’t enough and the SharePoint developer has to take the next step up to Visual Studio.
Source : 4sysops.com
While users of other email services need to access third party services to send huge files over the Internet, Outlook.com offers a better, more seamless experience: Attachments that exceed the service’s 10 MB attachment limit can simply be transmitted via SkyDrive instead. Put simply, Outlook.com users never need to worry about these limits.
Source : Paul Thrrott's Supersite for Windows
Another day, another provocative research report from Gartner, which has a long track record of spectacularly wrong predictions. I've collected some of their greatest hits. Er, misses.
Read the article @ www.zdnet.com
The free SolarWinds Diagnostic Tool for the WSUS Agent is designed to diagnose and even suggest corrections to common WSUS/agent issues.
Source : 4sysops.com, www.solarwinds.com
Don't waste your time trying to understand what this blog is about or why is there so many unrelated news in it (from Formula 1 to computer programming). It's simply my own personal blog where I can put any information I like.
