PowerShell Team

Ben Pearce’s Top 5 PowerShell Questions

June 9, 2007 Jun 9, 2007 06/9/07

Steve Lee

Ben Pearce manned the PowerShell booth at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando and posed the top 5 questions he got HERE. Here are they are (navigate to the link to find the answers! J ): How can I learn PowerShell Can I script active directory? Does PowerShell work against remote hosts? Does PowerShell install on Windows 2008 Server Core? Can I call...

Become a HanselFan

June 9, 2007 Jun 9, 2007 06/9/07

Steve Lee

I had the pleasure of doing a Channel 9 interview of Scott Hanselman of Corillian and the ever popular HanselMinutes podcast. Scott explains what Corillian does and how they use PowerShell in detail. They are doing a number of very creative things with PowerShell to deliver both a product and software as a service. One of the more interesting ...

What’s for DinnerNow? Alphabet Soup.

June 8, 2007 Jun 8, 2007 06/8/07

Steve Lee

DinnerNow is a .NET demo application that uses the latest and greatest .NET technologies. The nice thing about it is that it shows you how to use these technologies working together in the context of a real-world application. The individual teams typically provide isolated demos to highlight their technology and leave it to you to figure out ...

PowerShell Wins Best of Tech-Ed from Windows IT Pro Magazine!

June 7, 2007 Jun 7, 2007 06/7/07

Steve Lee

Windows IT Pro magazine awarded PowerShell the Best of Tech-Ed Award in its category last night. PowerShell won on the basis of strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and value to the customers. It's wonderful to see the superstars on the PowerShell team get the recognition they deserve for their incredible hard work and ...

PowerShell Hits a Million Downloads in the First Six Months

June 4, 2007 Jun 4, 2007 06/4/07

Steve Lee

Having come up with the initial idea of Windows PowerShell and then worked on it for a (really) long time, I was very optimistic about how it would be received and widely it would be adopted. I have to admit that even I'm shocked at where we are just six months after our release mid Nov 2006 release. Shortly before we released, Scott Ottaway...

New and Improved Start-Demo

June 3, 2007 Jun 3, 2007 06/3/07

Steve Lee

Attached is a new and improved Start-Demo script. Here is a brief list of the differences: Fix bug for demo files that have a single line Intro text explains that this is a REAL demo Cleaned up HELP and added some usage notes Now emulates TYPING by introducing a random pause between key output You can control the pause interval Entering ...