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I was just published in the January 2009. My article is on /n software's NetCmdlets.

It just happens that version 2 of NetCmdlets was officially released last week. I'm hoping to do an online presentation (or 2) on these great networking cmdlets some time soon.

NetCmdlets--new v2 beta build

There's a new NetCmdlets v2 build out HERE. See the page for details.

NOTE: The built-in help with this build doesn't work with the PowerShell v2 CTP (only tested this on XP). You'll have to use the provided .CHM help file or use PowerShell v1.

I will be doing a presentation on this snapin next week at the UK PowerShell UG announced HERE.

UK User Group presentation: NetCmdlets

I'll be (remotely) presenting /n software NetCmdlets at the next UK PowerShell UG meeting.

Date: July 29th, 2008
Time: 2PM EST (New York time)

Connection details:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JQ5754&role=present&pw=qP%2C%7Cf%2F9%7Cm

If the link above isn't working, follow these steps:
1. Copy this address and paste it into your web browser:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join
2. Copy and paste the required information:
Meeting ID: JQ5754
Entry Code: qP,|f/9|m
Location: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups

This will be done via the Internet (so the audio will be streaming over the Internet also). There won't be telephone dial-in access.

NetCmdlets v2!

I had been hinting recently about some news coming from an established PowerShell vendor:  /n software has just announced version 2 of their NetCmdlets HERE.  It is currently available as a beta release.

Some of the improvements are noted on the page.  Not currently mentioned on the page is that some of the cmdlets now support scriptblocks for values passed to parameters (I don't know which do and which don't).

Now, they've bundled their PowerShell remoting solution into one package.

I'll be blogging more about NetCmdlets soon.  I plan on doing a session on them for my virtual PowerShell user group, and also for the UK PowerShell user group soon.

NetCmdlets now free for non-commercial use

Lance Robinson has just announced HERE that /n software is now offering a free non-commercial license of their NetCmdlets product.

NetCmdlets offers more than 30 networking related cmdlets for use with PowerShell.  See the listing HERE.

Lance has also provide cool examples of using NetCmdlets on his blog.  He has setups tags so you should be able to see most of them HERE.

I also have a few examples on my blog here and there.  If I find the time, I'll try to figure out how to add tags to my blog...

PowerShell... From a BlackBerry!

Using a new PowerShell Remoting application (in beta) from /n software and Mobile SSH from Idokorro, I was able to to a remote SSH session from my BlackBerry to a remote Windows server and run PowerShell commands!

PowerShell Remoting basically gives you a regular terminal window (similar to Telnet), except you are in PowerShell.  No need for all the overhead of any kind of GUI, and you can run this from a mobile!

If you need PowerShell remoting *today*, you should check it out!

Screenshot!

New NetCmdlets beta

I've previously blogged about NetCmdlets before.  They have just released beta 3 of their PowerShell extensions.

Definitely something worth trying out for rich networking-based cmdlets extensions.

New beta of NetCmdlets!

/n software NetCmdlets released beta 2 of their network-related PowerShell cmdlets yesterday.

They've added a handy get-nntp cmdlet which I like.  I also like their get-http, and get-imap/send-imap cmdlets.

Definitely saves me time from trying to write my own scripts using .NET hooks.

I'll be blogging about it more, and also trying to incorporate NetCmdlets into my AWS series.