Administering BizTalk with PowerShell: Part 1
As many of you know, BizTalk Server has a fairly extensive WMI object model you can use to manage and run your BizTalk servers. As even more of you know, WMI is a pain in the neck to work with from pretty much anywhere, particularly C#.
However, PowerShell does make it a lot easier and actually even fun, since you can interactively execute and test any WMI query you need to perfection! Given that, it will make a nifty complement to working with BizTalk Server's WMI model. Here's something to open your appettite: List your BizTalk Hosts on the local server:
$hosts = get-wmiobject MSBTS_HostInstance -namespace
'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
$hosts | sort HostName | ft HostName,
HostType
I'll demonstrate some more interesting options in later posts!
If you like Windows PowerShell’s WMI support now – wait till you see what you get with RC2 (availability is not announced yet).
Check out the details at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/26/647038.aspx
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell/Aspen Architect
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Hi Jeffrey,
Yep, I’m quite looking forward to it
Heck, Actually I’m looking to the actual final bits so I can replace my usual cmd.exe prompt on my desktop with a powershell one