Weekly Shell: Aliasing Properties Last week I looked at a way to get raw strings into an object by creating a custom property. It's a great way to help bind those strings to a particular cmdlet parameter via pipeline input. But what if your problem is that your input objects have the key data

Weekly Shell: Property Tricks and Parameter Binding One neat thing coming in PowerShell v2 is a lot more cmdlets with -computerName properties, which in many cases accept pipeline input. The trick is in getting the pipeline input to those cmdlets in a way that accomplishes what you want - and it turns out the solution is a

Lunch Lesson: Emitting Objects in PowerShell (aka, the Evolution of Functions) Probably one of the most important things you can learn to do in Windows PowerShell is write scripts and functions that emit not text, but rather emit custom objects. For example, let's take a very simple script that uses WMI to ping a remote computer: $computer = 'server2' $results =