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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 course run...
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: &...
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 used...
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’re ...
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 star...
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 start...
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: 3 cheers to the superstars in Microsoft Marketing! I just LOVE this gu...
As you probably know by now, "remoting" is one of the cornerstone features of the next version of PowerShell. I am absolutely thrilled with the stuff we are doing here and the benefits that come from that approach. That said, there are lots of things that need to be buttoned up before this is ready: the right user experience, ...
Yesterday was the official launch of Window Server 2008, the first version of Windows to include PowerShell! Is that a good day or what? How could the day get any better? Well, the people at Quest Software answered that question by officially releasing PowerGUI! PowerGUI ROCKS! If you haven't used it yet, you should downloa...
Frank Koch is an Infrastructure Architect in the Technet team in Switzerland. In THIS blog entry, I talked about how Frank wrote a very popular Windows PowerShell book and made it available FREE (aahhhh - there is that magical word again! :-)). Needless to say, he had a lot of downloads. Motivated by that success, and his love of Power...