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The PowerGUI people have done a new Desktop Background.
So I switched right away.
Before:
After:
The new background is on the Winter
Olympic theme.
It can be found here.
As I posted some days ago I have been working on a
script that will automatically download and install 3 of my
favorite PowerShell Tools.
PowerGUI, Primal Forms and Quest AD Cmdlet.
The script has been uploaded to The Scripting Guys repository now
and can be found here.
This will save me a lot of time looking for the files and then install them.
So in ~5 min I have them installed on a clean computer.
This short blog post will be a first view of
PowerGUI and the AD PowerPack.
Now with the Active Directory PowerPack
we have a new group in PowerGUI.
In my case, my computer belongs
to my lab Active Directory. But my logged in user
don’t. So when I try to click on Users I will get some errors.
To fix this I only need to start PowerGUI with
a different user.
The Power of the PowerGUI as I see it is the nice GUI and
the easy way to see how Its done. Because Its PowerShell
behind this and Its so easy to see it.
Right-click on Users and then Properties.
Now you can see the code behind.
This will give you some information on how to use
this in your own scripts.
But be ware of that PowerGUI does something that
you don’t see in this code.
You need to load the snap-in for Quest AD cmdlets.
More about this later on!
Hi,
my latest project or my latest lab is to install
two PowerPacks with the latest release
of PowerGUI (1.9.5).
These good PowerPacks are not new, but I’m
old fashion and I haven’t tried them before 
To be able to install these two PowerPacks we needed to
install two things.
And we will find them in the Quest
ActiveRoles Management Shell. You will find it here.
The next step is very good, but will not
work for me in my lab environment. 
The 64-bit version can be found on the
Exchange 2007 disk.
The 32-bit version can be found here.
More information about the Exchange Management Shell
can be found here.
So now we have installed 4 new friends
I had this version but didn’t get the new PowerGUI 1.9
with the “Check for Update” .
So It’s time for an update check at http://powergui.org
On the same page as the download for PowerGUI they have links
to PowerShell and then I only can think that It’s sad
that Microsoft did not release the PowerShell 2.0 RTM
for Windows XP and Vista at the same time as Windows 7.
I have been testing 2.0 for a long time on one of my desktops, but I
will continue to make my scripts for PowerShell 1.0 until the RTM release.
Another thought is that the Power Pack for AD in the installation of
PowerGUI need an 3rd party tool. Okay, the tool is nice, but I love
to script with none 3rd party tools.
I did write this blog post when installing the new version
Spring 2008 
All year round wallpaper 
Spring 2009 
The wallpapers can be downloaded from here.
Next Wednesday, March 11 2009 there will be a 7 hour chat with the people behind PowerGUI
Read more about it at:
http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/chat-with-the-powergui-team/
