Scripting with Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP

Download the third Community Technology Preview (CTP3).

Find out what’s new in the second release of the Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP.

A “quick start” guide to download, installing, configuring, and using Windows PowerShell 2.0.

Read this introduction to the Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP, then take a look at the rest of the content from the Scripting Guys presented during TechEd IT Forum Week in November 2007.

Find everything you need to get started with Windows PowerShell.

Remoting has changed a bit between the first CTP and the second. Find out how it works in CTP2.

You can now use transactions to manage your interactions with the registry.

This cmdlet has been updated since the first CTP to include filtering.

Improve the formatting and readability of your XML content with the new ConvertTo-XML cmdlet.

Monitor events with the Register-WMIEvents cmdlet and the Get-PSEvent cmdlet.

You can do more than generate random numbers with this new cmdlet.

The first attempt at a Graphical PowerShell interface (in the first CTP of Windows PowerShell 2.0) was a little lacking in functionality, but you’ll see in CTP2 that it’s improving.

The Import-CSV cmdlet isn’t new, but it has a new parameter that lets you choose the delimited you want to separate on.

This new cmdlet will help you with your debugging.

This new cmdlet allows you to view, sort, and group output in a graphical format.

New parameters make this cmdlet more flexible than ever.

New parameters and cmdlets make it so you can now access IIS, and possibly perform some common tasks more quickly.

Set breakpoints, walk through your scripts at your own pace, and watch them work.

An introduction to the much-anticipated remoting capabilities.

Want a little more info? Try this.

Want even more information on remoting? How about information on what’s up with all those quotation marks? Single quote marks? Double quote marks? Find out what to use and when to use it so you can get your remoting working flawlessly (or as close as you can get with a CTP anyway).

A graphical scripting editor and tester. This is still very much in development, but it’s off to a good start.

Fully-searchable and easily-readable version of Windows PowerShell 2.0 Help, plus instructions on how to access this help from a cmdlet.

Quick Reference guide to using Windows PowerShell.