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PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is aimed at providing a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions and scripts for Windows PowerShell that members of the community have expressed interest in.

If you are interested in contributing to PSCX, drop me an email, or use the new Patch Upload feature for a one-off fix or script contribution. Developers: please read over the PSCX Developer's Guide. For a description of what features are currently in PSCX, check out the PSCX 1.1.1 Features web page.

Release Status

PSCX MAINTENANCE UPDATE 1.1.1 Is Released.

There are about 30 defect fixes and five new features in 1.1.1 incuding a new -PageSize parameter for the Get-ADObject cmdlet. New functionality includes an elevate function (alias su) that will invoke the UAC elevation UI on Vista and the RunAs dialog box on XP. The Select-Xml cmdlet now outputs a XPathDocumentNavigator object instead of text. For more details, the download page for the 1.1.1 lists all the work items that went into this update.

Installation note: you will be required to uninstall PSCX 1.1 before installing 1.1.1. If you don't you will get an installer error which if you look at the details, effectively tells you to uninstall previous versions of PSCX. I know this isn't ideal. We thought we had the Visual Studio 2005 setup project generating an "updatable" installer. But for some reason that we still don't understand, the update would not re-register the PowerShell snapin which is required if you change the version number of the snapin.

Problems?

If you have any problems with the installation and/or usage of PSCX, check out the FAQ which will be frequently updated. If you don't see your issue listed, please post it in the discussions forum with as much detail as possible.

What's New?

Some highlights of the new additions include:

Cmdlets

• Get-ExportedType

Functions

• Collect
• Elevate (alias su)

Scripts

• Get-ViewDefinitions.ps1
• Out-Speech.ps1
• Select-Random.ps1

Global Variables

• $RegexLib

For your source code downloaders, you will find the source for this 1.1.1 patch release in $/PowerShellCX/Branches/Release/1.1. We branched a while back so other folks could work on 1.2 features on the trunk.