We are proud to announce a new blog dedicated to PowerShell and focused on the community. This is a blog by the community and for the community. And we have made it easier than ever for you to contribute to the new blog.
It all started with a generous offer from a member of the community, Thomas Lee (@doctordns).
We knew we had a great opportunity here. But, rather than fixing the content in the Scripting blog, what we really needed was a fresh start. So we decided to retire the Scripting blog and create this new one.
A blog for the community
Like the Scripting blog, this new blog is focused on teaching you about PowerShell, answering your questions, and providing interesting and useful examples. We will continue to use the scripter@microsoft.com mailbox to accept your questions. But there are new ways to engage with this blog.
A blog by the community
On the Scripting blog, it was possible for members of the community to submit blog posts to our email address. The Scripting Guys would review the offered content and publish the post for you.
With the new blog we have a new way to contribute. All posts to this blog are open-source Markdown files stored on GitHub. You can share your own knowledge by submitting pull requests. And you can use the Issues system to ask question, point out problems, or suggest ideas for new posts.
Getting started
Thomas Lee already has several posts from the old Scripting blog that he has updated and corrected. Look for those posts here in the coming weeks. If you have other posts from the old blog that you would like to see updated, please open an issue in the Community-Blog repository.
The content in the Scripting blog is not going away. But rather than updating the posts there, where they will be lost among the 5400+ existing posts, the updated post will be published here as fresh content that is easy to find.
So now it’s your turn. Check out this page to learn how to get started.
Fantastic!
Just curious, Am I reading this correctly? If I want to ask a scripting question now? I need to open a WordPress account/ It get switched to Author/ find some place to make a branch of a git hub project/ format my project with special headers
Before my question is determined to be posted?
So, if my question was something like, I want to format my PowerShell object results in xxxxxxx way..... I'd need to do all...
You may be over analysing this! :-)
This blog is intended to show the community how to do things in PowerShell. With that aim, as a member of the community, you have several different modes of interaction each of which has different requirements:
1. If you just want to read the blogs, then just go ahead. no accounts are needed.
2. If you want to read and join in the comments on any blog entry, yes...
I love the fact that almost all MS products are moving to the same platform for docs (docs.microsoft.com) and blogs (devblogs.microsoft.com) it brings a beautiful consistency … except for VS code, they’re still on their inconsistent own platform, that’s a real pity!
The move to open sourcing both documentation and product development at Microsoft has been nothing short of amazing. I once asked Steve Ballmer, in a small meeting, what he thought about Linux. I think it fair to say he was not a fan of open source. In those days, the idea of open-sourcing .NET and PowerShell would have been simply unthinkable. But then it happened. What open sourcing has done is to improve the velocity....
Yeah, unfortunately this is the reply that I got when I asked for this first, and than the conversation locked and limited after I asked for further details:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74939
Excelllent!
That’s great!
I still refer to those old posts from time to time.
Good stuff!
What does the original Scripting Guy think about this?
Glad to see this blog resurrected!
Sweet!