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PowerShell 3 takes scripting to new heights

"This is pre-alpha stuff. It???s from beta."

You do realise that alpha comes before beta? How can it be "from beta" if it's "pre-alpha stuff."?

Here's an article from Prof. Powershell that explains how to run PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0 side by side on the same machine.
http://mcpmag.com/articles/2011/12/20/powershell-2-and-3-side-by-side.aspx

Basically after installing PS 3 CTP if you run: powershell.exe -version 2.0 which will start a PS 2 session.

On a side note: I could not post this response from IE9 and had to use Firefox 9 to post.

One of my favorite new features is the -PASSTHRU parameter on Out-Gridview. Try this:

get-service |out-gridview -PassThru |start-service -Verbose

Then select the services that you want and when you click OK, the selected services will get passed down the pipeline to the Start-Service cmdlet. Fun.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server

love it.

The out-gridview shows the CPU seconds and several other fields as strings. So hitting the column header sorts them in string order. 1234 seconds appears before 2.34 seconds.