Comments on: First Glance at PowerShell

By: Max Kuipers

Max Kuipers — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:41:25 +0000

Christine, the permissions issues were simply an unfamiliar security protocol. It’s called the “execution-policy” in Powershell. Naturally, the default was set to not let anything run, so I had to figure out how to allow it to run. Instead of just chmod u+x on a particular file, I had to restart the shell and run it as an administrator and type “Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned” which allows any script I write to run without question but requires signature on any script downloaded from the internet.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:53:04 +0000

As another linux fanboy (or girl in this case) forced to use Windows for my work, this is pretty interesting. I’d be curious to hear more about the permissions obstacles you faced (and how you overcame them), as well as where the most useful documentation you found was.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:42:54 +0000

Right on! Very intriguing.

By: Jim Chrystal

Jim Chrystal — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:14:27 +0000

You’ve made a giant leap forward into the not-so-distant past. Good job!

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:30:32 +0000

I just got a windows 7 computer at work, so I’ll have to remember this. I have a feeling it will probably be pretty useful at some point.