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March 2008 - Page 2 of 2 - PowerShell Team

PowerShell Plus is now official!

March 14, 2008 Mar 14, 2008 03/14/08
PowerShell Team
PowerShell Plus has now officially released V1.0.  Actually I'm late in my congratulations, they actually released it on March 6th.  If you haven't checked out PowerShell Plus, you definitely should take advantage of their free 30 day trial and see what you are missing.  This is a really impressive piece of creative ...

New PowerShell Training Options

March 12, 2008 Mar 12, 2008 03/12/08
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  The creative guys at Sapien are thinking outside the box again.  They are offing a new hybrid approach to online training for PowerShell.  You sign up for a class and get some self-study materials but you also have an online class that meets twice a week for an hour (you have a choice of a couple of timeslots).  The ...

Do you want a PowerShell based build environment?

March 11, 2008 Mar 11, 2008 03/11/08
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If so SPEAK UP NOW.  The Windows SDK team is looking for feedback on whether this would be useful.  Check out their request for feedback at:  Influence the future of Windows sdk - Powershell based build environment Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: &#...

Highway to PowerShell V2 – WOW

March 7, 2008 Mar 7, 2008 03/7/08
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Ragnar Harper is a senior consultant and Advisor at Crayon AS in Norway.  Ragnar is also a big fan of PowerShell.  Recently he won a demo contest putting PowerShell through its paces.  At one point he did an import-csv of a large file and created Active Directory entries.   This took a while so while that was going, he...

"Powershell came out of nowhere and surpassed all the other groupings…"

March 6, 2008 Mar 6, 2008 03/6/08
PowerShell Team
Bruce Payette shared this with the team: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O’Reilly does a periodic “state of programming language popularity” based on book sales (approximately). Last year PowerShell barely showed up on the map. This year we&#...

Confessions

March 6, 2008 Mar 6, 2008 03/6/08
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Andy's confessional BLOG POST has inspired me -  I've got my own confession to make:  I fricking LOVE PowerShell.  I admit it.  It started years ago when the pieces of PowerShell started coming together.  Someone would write a script and then get the other guys on the team into their office to show it off.  We'd...

PowerGUI: "Dude, this is fricking AWESOME…"

March 6, 2008 Mar 6, 2008 03/6/08
PowerShell Team
Andy Schneider has a great blog entry called: Confessions of a PowerShell Evangelist where he talks about not thinking much about PowerGui.  Then it RTMed and he told some people about it and one of his operations people emailed him an awesome response an hour later which caused Andy to reevaluate his assessment of it.  The response ...

Mascot Naming Contest

March 3, 2008 Mar 3, 2008 03/3/08
PowerShell Team
Have you see the totally cool new ads for Windows server 2008 at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html ? This is one of the best things I think I've ever seen our Marketing dept ever developed and they feature this awesome looking robot: (image) 3 cheers to the superstars in Microsoft Marketing! I just...