Examples of IIS Powershell cmdlets by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Summary: This document explains how to specify the values of parameter values and how the configuration file is updated by IIS Powershell generic cmdlets such as Get-WebConfiguration and Get-WebConfigurationProperty so that users can use them effectively...

PowerShell script generation in IIS Configuration Editor by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

This is "simple", yet it is definitely one of my favorite features in IIS 8.0 beta. As you know, the IIS configuration system is built on a schematized XML, applicationHost.config. While the IIS Manager does expose the most common administration...

Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell by Scott Hanselman

I love PowerShell and spent years and years working with it since it first came out. I've actually got 15 or so pages of PowerShell posts on this blog going way back. PowerShell is insanely powerful. I would even go so far as to say it was (is) ahead...
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Unix Fight! - Sed, Grep, Awk, Cut and Pulling Groups out of a PowerShell Regular Expression Capture by Scott Hanselman

There's a wonderful old programmers joke I've told for years: "You've got a problem, and you've decided to use regular expressions to solve it. Ok, now you've got two problems..." A friend of mine was talking on a social...
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Updated Windows Azure Access Control Service Cmdlets: Modules, Continuation and Backup/Restore! by Vibro.NET

As promised yesterday, here there’s one of the deliverables I mentioned. About one month ago we published the first release of a set of PowerShell cmdlets for ACS : wrappers for the ACS management APIs, which allow you to easily script tasks such as wiping...
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Powerscripting Podcast: ACS, Windows Azure and… PowerShell by Vibro.NET

Last week I had the pleasure of being guest on the PowerScripting podcast , THE show about PowerShell. That’s actually pretty uncharacteristic for me, considering that at every session I deliver at TechEd I spend the first few minutes on colorful disclaimers...
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Adding a Custom OpenID Provider to ACS… with JUST ONE LINE of PowerShell Code by Vibro.NET

ACS offers you a variety of identity provider you can integrate with. Many of you will be familiar with the list shown by the management portal at the beginning of the add new identity provider wizard. Some of you may also know that ACS integrates with...
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How To: Use Microsoft.Web.Administration from Powershell by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Powershell has become a defacto scripting environment for a lot of companies and rightly so considering its capabilities. However, not every place do we find all modules loaded into powershell as one would like for the ease of scripting. I faced a similiar...
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How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye by Scott Hanselman

I've heard and seen lots of complaints about how it's hard to set the default browser that Visual Studio launches when you launch a debug session for a website. Step 0 - Adequate Folks spend time hunting around the Tools|Options dialog in Visual...
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Awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with Overlays by Scott Hanselman

I'm not using one of the "icon people." By that I mean, I don't collect icons, or change all the icons on my system to custom fancypants icons. But, I noticed today that I was using the Command Prompt alongside a Visual Studio Command...
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Managing Windows EC2 Instances remotely with Powershell by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

For a long time now I'm trying to find out how to remotely manage an EC2 machine with Powershell.It finally worked. Here is how: Start a new Windows Server 2008 EC2 instance. Keep the machine name, public DNS name and password for your EC2 machine...
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IIS Config Reference can now be downloaded by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I have been meaning to blog for quite sometime now but work has got me all tied up. However, this is something I just couldn't let go. Robert McMurray yesterday blogged about the availability of the IIS Config Reference in the form of Compiled Help...
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Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta released! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Last week my team released a super powerful update to our Web Farm Framework project aimed at dramatically simplifying the complexity of managing a Web farm (many computers running one or more Web sites).  Web Farm Framework 2.0 (WFF) allows users...
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PowerScripting Podcast by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Hal and Jonathan on the PowerScripting podcast about Windows Azure.  It was a fun chat - lots on Windows Azure, a bit on the WASM cmdlets and MMC , and it revealed my favorite comic book character . Listen...
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