Finaly Livewriter again

The first post with the new Version of Open Live Writer.

Forcing Excel to use a csv field separator other than the local list separator

Add the line

sep=|

at the beginning of the csv-file, to instruct excel to use the pipe character as the field separator.

Starting Azure VM via PowerShell Jobs

The tricky part is how to pass the parameters to the Start-AzureVM cmdlet.

This code assumes the name of the vm is equal to the name of the ServiceName (the name of the Cloud Service)

$vms = Get-AzureVM
$vms | % {Start-Job {Start-AzureVM -Name $args[0] -ServiceName $args[0]} -ArgumentList $_.Name}