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You use PowerShell EVERY day. You work directly in the console. You create scripts. You write Script Modules. Maybe your "users" are pleading for a simple GUI based front end for the scripts that you need them to execute. Introducing PowerShell Studio 2012! [caption id="attachment_4129" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="PowerShell Studio 2012"][/caption] The most complete PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment available. PowerShell Studio is full of all the tools you need. An updated ribbon UI makes it even easier to work with your scripts. Customizable panel layouts help you work YOUR way. The new function explorer helps you to rapidly navigate to any function,…   More »

PrimalScript has been the premiere Scripting Integrated Development Environment since its introduction in 1998. With each iteration more functionality and more language support has been added and it has become more and more powerful. But with great power comes great responsibility; the responsibility to keep the product fresh and maintaining ease of use. Introducing PrimalScript 2012: [caption id="attachment_4123" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="PrimalScript 2012"][/caption] PrimalScript 2012 has had a complete UI redesign. Gone are the long, involved menus. A new ribbon-based user interface that makes finding and accessing functionality faster and easier takes its place. And even though the ribbon uses about…   More »

SAPIEN PowerShell Training 2011 You have asked for it and here it is: The next Windows PowerShell class. We have once again teamed up with Don Jones to offer the best PowerShell training available. Our PowerShell class offering has been widely praised as the best. Get a leg up on everyone else and get your PowerShell training in early this year. Smaller class sizes mean personalized training. One on one time with the instructor is paramount to individual success. No prior scripting experience is needed, as Don will take you through everything you need to be successful. Each student will receive our custom…   More »

The Scripting Guys over at Microsoft have started a series on how to use PrimalForms Community Edition for various tasks. Have a look at their first installment here: http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/03/01/hey-scripting-guy-march-1-2010.aspx Make sure to give Ed Wilson a shout if you like it and if there are any specific items you would like to see covered.…   More »

iPowerShell v.2 is finished and is now available at the Apple app store (iTunes link) for download. Don't know what iPowerShell is? iPowerShell is an easy to use reference tool for users of Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language for use on the iPhone or iPod Touch. It contains full descriptions of each and every core PowerShell Version 2 cmdlet, their syntax, parameters and examples of proper usage. It also contains the complete set of "about item" help topics as well as provider and alias help. iPowerShell includes a quick search function that allows the user to type in partial search terms…   More »

SAPIEN Press' Windows PowerShell 2.0:TFM eBook by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks is ready for purchase and download on ScriptingOutpost.com. This book is a major update to the best selling Windows PowerShell 1.0:TFM, the first PowerShell book available. Don and Jeff have updated their opus to include every nook and cranny of PowerShell 2.0. Check out the book details at SAPIENPress. If you previously purchased the IPO version of this eBook, simply go to my.sapien.com, login, and then re-download the ebook. You will get the finished version downloaded to your machine.…   More »

With the recent release of Windows PowerShell v.2 and the immanent publication of our well regarded Windows PowerShell v.2 TFM book by Don Jones and Jeff Hicks, SAPIEN is releasing our Windows PowerShell v.1 TFM eBook as a FREE download to the public. Even though this eBook is for version 1 of PowerShell, the book still contains loads of valuable information about PowerShell's core workings and cmdlets. Download the eBook today at http://www.primaltools.com/downloads/communitytools/. Just look for the entry entitled "Powershell TFM V1 eBook".…   More »

Our Powershell Help tool has been a favorite download for quite some time now. The built-in help command in the Powershell console is helpful if you need just some quick lookup, but for browsing and reading the console just isn't good enough. The CHM file Microsoft released is a pretty nice graphical way of getting help for the built-in cmdlets but it's a closed file and information for third party or even other Microsoft snapins is not available and cannot be added. Cmdlets organized by popular verbs This new version of our popular Powershell help tool allows importing any xml…   More »

PowerShell V.2 is here and SAPIEN is ready! Don Jones and Jeff Hicks have been working hard on a text for version 2. The result is Windows PowerShell V.2: TFM.  We are currently accepting pre-orders as ScriptingOutpost.com. To read more about content and changes please visit http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell3.asp…   More »

Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task the individual was facing was to come up with a way to verify installed applications via checking the corresponding Windows Installer registry entries. For a C++ programmer with access to the API, that really is not a big issue. From VBScript, using only WshShell.RegRead that is a completely different story. A quick consult with some fellow script experts revealed that the only real way was using WMI and the StdRegProvider. The main complaint I heard…   More »