I think I may have just seen my favorite localization bug report to date.  A tester recently opened a bug against our Czech localization of Hyper-V – where the sentence:

The guest operating system (guest) is the operating system that runs inside the virtual machine

Was localized into:

Hostovaný operační systém (host) je operační systém, který běží uvnitř virtuálního počítače

The tester saw this

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Next week I will be hanging out in New Orleans.  As well as doing my share of booth duty – and walking around talking to people about virtualization – I will be presenting on Dynamic Memory.  Here are the details:

Code Session Room Day Time VIR304 Hyper-V and Dynamic Memory in Depth Rm 295 Tuesday, June 8 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Dynamic memory is a new feature of Hyper-V coming

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Our documentation team has done a great job of putting together a detailed Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster.  They were nice enough to give us on the development team some physical copies – but you can download the .PDF to create your own:

The

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Today, we released Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for pre-Windows 7 operating systems on Windows Update. This non-security, optional update is designed for Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 are also available as part of  the Windows Management Framework (WMF)

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[This isn't only a PowerShell topic, but I've been asked a few times, so I thought I post the answer here.]

If you’ve visited TechNet or MSDN lately, you’ll notice that there are new view options for the pages. TechNet has a new ScriptFree view, in addition to the familiar Classic view. MSDN has two new views, ScriptFree and Lightweight.

When you

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Quest has released a beta of PowerGUI Visual Studio (aka PowerGUI VSX). 

Check out Kirk Munro’s blog entry HERE for more details.  Check out this screenshot:

I can’t wait to install it and kick the tires!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:   

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Kudos to NetApp for releasing the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit last week at TechEd.

I was monitoring the twitter feeds last week and saw a flurry of activity talking about NetApp’s broad adoption of PowerShell and release of the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit surfacing all of their management functionality through cmdlets. I decided to investigate and headed to the NetApp

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Unlike other tools, PowerShell ISE doesn’t have project files. Project files are a good way to set your environment up with a well known state.

Thanks to the ISE Object Model, it is possible to add some project functionality.

The script below has two main functions “Export-ISEState” and “Import-ISEState”. They can be used to save files and PowerShellTabs and reopen them later.

Even

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PowerShell ISE is a simple tool and in some cases it has the bare essentials. For instance, it does not have an option to save all files.

On the flipside, it offers an Object Model from its first version that allows adding features beyond the essentials like this one and many more. 

If we had the “Save All” option in the ISE, one

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Kind of late to be posting this, but better late than never.  I’m presenting three sessions at Tech*Ed in New Orleans this week: