Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP Available for DownLoad
OK, I am back blogging after a short Thanksgiving break. I didn’t go nowhere though. I was “On Duty” working at home. I didn’t eat turkey either as I am enjoy reading The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health and trying to embark on a journey to eat only plant food for life. I realized that this is going to a very difficult journey so I give myself sometime to think this through. As I don’t want to do yo-yo. 
Other than that, I watched Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series using my newly acquired Dell Inspiron 1520 – equipped among everything else with 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT, running Vista Ultimate. What I can say, the screen results is amazing!
OK, enough said about my Thanksgiving Dairy and time to get back to work!
In case you haven’t heard, the new version of Windows PowerShell — Version 2.0, CTP is now available for early “adopters”.
I just spent about 20 minutes to get it installed on my new Vista Laptop, here is a couple of points worth to mention:
Windows PowerShell 1.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) cannot run on the same computer. You must un-install Windows PowerShell 1.0 before installing the version 2.0 CTP; It requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 which is part of Vista OS; if you need the Graphical PowerShell feature or the Out-GridView cmdlet, you will also need Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.0 which is again part of Vista but you will need to use the “Turn Windows Features On Or Off” in control panel to turn it on. It also requires WS-Management v1.1 which I have yet to find it’s “vista” version. This is why I get a warning:“Windows PowerShell(TM)v2(CTP)remoting features may not work correctly in this version of the Operating System.”
Other than that I have to say the install itself is pretty smooth.
Just do get-process |out-gridview and you will like what you see. Another cool new feature is Graphical PowerShell(early alpha version)You can use it to compose and test run your scripts. It has the potential or intent to become “PowerShell Studio” down the road.
Of course PowerShell Remoting is the added feature but I have yet to test it out on Vista.
Happy Holidays