MMS2007: SW10 Advanced PowerShell Scripting

PowerShell TeamMarch 30, 2007Mar 30, 200703/30/07

Attached is a zip file which contains the PowerPoint slides and demo scripts for my SW10 Advanced  PowerShell Scripting talk that I’m about to give at MMS2007.
 Enjoy!
Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: 

Announced: PowerShell to Ship in Windows Server (Longhorn)!!!!

PowerShell TeamMarch 27, 2007Mar 27, 200703/27/07

The rate of PowerShell adoption has been quite stunning.  We’ve all been amazed by the momentum.  Here are a few datapoints:

We have had well over 400,000 downloads of Windows PowerShell since we released in November!  

We are up to eight books in the US,

Thread.ApartmentState and PowerShell Execution Thread

PowerShell TeamMarch 23, 2007Mar 23, 200703/23/07

Recently someone, in internal discussion groups, asked if it is possible to set “ApartmentState” on the powershell’s execution thread. I thought this info is useful to some of you and hence this blog.  To touch basics on ApartmentState see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemthreadingapartmentstateclasstopic.asp
Majority of PowerShell’s execution happens through Pipeline class.

MMS: SW08 Revised Title/Abstract

PowerShell TeamMarch 22, 2007Mar 22, 200703/22/07

Here is another change for those of you coming to MMS. Yesterday I reviewed the demo that we’ll be showing at this session and was really excited by what I saw. We video taped it for Channel9 so if you miss the talk/demo,

MMS: SW09 Revised Title/Abstract

PowerShell TeamMarch 21, 2007Mar 21, 200703/21/07

I hope to see some of you at MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) in San Diego next week. I’ll be giving a number of talks and will be around a lot so please come introduce yourself and say howdy.

 
I’m pleased to announce a change in the title and abstract for my SW09 talk on Thursday.

Test-Path: We Goofed

PowerShell TeamMarch 21, 2007Mar 21, 200703/21/07

Test-Path: We Goofed!    (also known as a documentation errata…)

Test-Path is a very handy little cmdlet. You submit a path and it tells you (TRUE/FALSE) whether the elements of the path exist on the computer. You can use it to determine whether particular files or folders are present (or missing) or to look for a registry key that indicates that a program is installed,

Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell

PowerShell TeamMarch 18, 2007Mar 18, 200703/18/07

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Attached is a public version of the original Monad Manifesto.
This is not a Windows PowerShell whitepaper nor is it an accurate description of how V1.0 works. This is a version of the original Monad Manifesto which articulated the long term vision and started the development effort which became PowerShell.